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Profile: John Weeks
An Information Technology Enthusiast
‘Early Adopter’:
• first in-country blogger in Cambodia – other local ‘firsts’ include– First Embedded OpenType Khmer Font Web Site– First ‘neutral’ Election portal site – First Ushahidi ‘crowdsourced’ localization– Project Manager for Southeast Asia’s first Open Data Web site
• Diverse advocacy / human rights web sites• IT evaluations of PACT / UN web sites• Regular trainings in web essentials and specific IT issues• Regularly invited to ‘interpret’ technology issues for non-technical
audiences. • Regularly cited in press about Southeast Asian IT
Network Advocate / Creator:
• Active participant / presenter in Southeast Asian BarCamp / TechCamp community
• Project Leader for country implementation of ‘Spider ICT4D Network’
• Host / Organizer: ‘Open Cambodia’, Phnom Penh Mapping Meetup, ‘Geek O’ Clock’, Open Street Map Marathons
• Open Data community ‘evangelist’• Board member of NGOs and co-founder of varied
social enterprises
An Energetic Advocate
Creation & Collaboration for Change:
• Cognizant of Clean Energy / Energy Efficiency issues and efforts on global and local scale
• Participant in emerging ‘Post 2015’ Millennium Development Goals discussion
• Self-starter, regular developer of varied electronic / print publications & projects since early 1990s
• Proven project management, proposal, grant and report writing skills
• Enthusiast for finding linkages between diverse issues
A Cultivator of Connections
Catalyzing Community Contacts
• Working to connect like-minded people and communities, overcoming barriers of wealth, class, gender, culture and nationality
• Facilitator for Mekong ICT Camp, collecting diverse IT / Advocacy experts for collaboration
• Organizer of international conferences and exhibitions (including Center for Khmer Studies, Book Federation, Our Books)
• Grassroots research experience in addition to communication / consultation with Institutional Stakeholders / Funders
An Informed Ear
Contextualizing Communications:
• In addition to formal data collection, enthusiast for local ‘ground-truthing’ & researching anecdotal experience
• Proponent of grassroots driven change• An advocate for linguistic and cultural appropriacy in
communications• Experience in ‘indigenizing’ projects as well as
translating results into ‘donor-speak’• A listener and seeker of alternate narratives / voices
that are marginalized
