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Back then in Myanmar, the majority of institutions were still running on paper. Registration forms, student records, faculty documents, all of it handled manually. Stacks of paper, filing cabinets, the whole thing. Our institution was no different.
We wanted to change that. The idea behind ORT was straightforward: take the paper-based registration process and put it online. Build a cloud-based system on our own server that could handle registration, document management, and whatever else the institution needed. Not just a form submission tool, but something that could actually change how the place runs day to day.
ORT was never finished in the way we originally planned. During the COVID lockdown, things slowed down but we kept going as a remote team for about a year. We were still making progress. Then in February 2021, the military coup happened. All universities were forced to stop activities. Every student project got dropped, students had to stay home, and the institution shut down. The economy fell apart on top of it.