After traveling to North Korea in January to spread a message about Internet openness, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt is now taking his crusade to Myanmar, according to a new report.

Schmidt will visit the Southeast Asian country on March 22, where he plans to speak at a public event with local startups, enterpreneurs, and students, according to a The Wall Street Journal. His trip marks the first time a high-level U.S. tech executive has visited Myanmar following political reforms that have encouraged the U.S. and other Western nations to remove sanctions against the country. 

"Eric is visiting several countries in Asia to connect with local partners and Googlers who are working to improve the lives of many millions of people across the region by helping them get online and access the world's information for the first time in the next few years," a spokesperson for Mountain View, Calif.-based Google, said in a statement to PCMag.

Internet censorship in Myanmar has eased in recent years under President Thein Sein's quasi-civilian government. The previous military regime fought to limit and control Web access, even censoring the word "Internet" from all publications and banning cyber cafes. 

Still, Google last month sent alerts to certain journalists who cover Myanmar, warning them that their email accounts have possibly been compromised by government-backed hackers.

In November, President Obama became the first American president to visit Myanmar.

Schmidt will also travel to new Delhi, India, where he is scheduled to speak at a Web summit, according to Bloomberg. 

The trip follows Schmidt's visit to North Korea last month with former New Mexico governor and U.N. ambassador Bill Richardson, where Schmidt urged officials to provide more access to Internet and cell phones. The Google executive said the secretive state risks falling even further behind in the global rat race if it does not loosen Web restrictions.

"As the world becomes increasingly connected, [North Korea's] decision to be virtually isolated is very much going to affect their physical world, their economic growth and so forth and it will make it harder for them to catch up economically," Schmidt told reporters last month.