Autore
Di Caro, Giuliano

Titolo
Birmania. Il risveglio di una nazione
Periodico
Equilibri
Anno: 2013 - Volume: 17 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 145 - Pagina finale: 149

It all started with an e-mail sent from a gmail account to Ipses, an Italianfive-people company based near Milan whose expertise is to design andset up scientific equipment. As Ipses people eventually found out, the «outof the blue» sender was the National Archaeological Museum of Yangon,Burma, asking an estimate on setting up a lab in Yangon. Their intent wasto start measuring the dating of the Burmese temples using a very specifictechnique called thermal luminescence. In order to retrieve and salvage theirown History and heritage, they opened to the world, addressing a Europeancountry. This encounter cranked up the creation of an international cooperationand scientific network: Ipses people have gone to Yangon to workon the first round of the lab set up and introduced the Burmese personnelto the University of Turin. Later on two young Burmese women scientistshave gone to Turin for a two-month training sponsored by the Italian university.Today the network connecting Burma and Italy includes ministries,universities, private foundations and university spin offs. An exchange andcooperation effort that represents one of the several paths undergone bythis Nation, which is now facing the thorny transition from dictatorship todemocracy.



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