Invited Speakers
YB Dr. Annuar Bin Rapaee
Deputy Minister for Education, Innovation and Talent Development
Sarawak
YB Datuk Gerawat Gala
Deputy Minister Premier Department
(Labour, Immigration and Project
Monitoring)
Sarawak
Leonardo Parra Agudelo is an Assistant Professor in the Design Department, Faculty of Architecture and Design at Universidad de los Andes. (Bogota, Colombia). Leonardo finished a PhD in urban development and social innovation at QUT, Brisbane, Australia. He holds an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons the New School for Design, New York, USA.
Associate Professor, Universidad de los Andes Bogota, Colombia
Lizette Reitsma is a design researcher who has been working with different (indigenous) communities, in Malaysia, the Netherlands, South Africa, Sweden, Scotland through participatory methods. Her focus in her research is on sustainability, cultural heritage preservation and social change. The communities she works with often have different knowledge systems than she has, it is therefor that she tries through here work to respectfully invite for those other ways of knowing to become part of the (design) processes. Making sense through making takes a central role in her practice through research through design. In her work and understanding of it, she has to look critical at who she is, how she relates and her positionality. This is important especially since she is a designer who grew up in the Netherlands (a country with a colonising past), and has been rooted and educated within the modernist hegemony.
Associate Senior Lecturer, Malmö University Sweden
Adrian is a Senior Manager, Policy & Advocacy at the Internet Society. He focuses on issues affecting the Internet’s openness, connectivity, trustworthiness, and security, with an emphasis on Asia-Pacific. He leads the global Community Networks project.
Senior Policy and Advocacy Manager, Internet Society
Dr. Sarbani Banerjee Belur holds a PhD in Demography from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She has a MA in Sociology from the University of Hyderabad. Currently she is a senior research scientist in Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, and working as Asia regional coordinator for community networks project of Association for Progressive communications. Prior to this, she was a visiting research fellow at Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai and Future Ideas, Mumbai.
Association for Progressive Communication, IIT Bombay, India
Cat Kutay is descended from seafarers of Celtic and Aboriginal origin. Cat is a Lecturer in the College of Engineering, IT and Environment at Charles Darwin University. She works with Aboriginal communities for online language learning and story sharing as a way for Aboriginal culture and knowledge to be acknowledged and integrated into Australian engineering approaches.
She is a Computer and Electrical Engineer. She manages projects developing software for web services for Indigenous Knowledge sharing including Aboriginal language learning and embed Indigenous Knowledge in university teaching. In particular she develops online and blended learning resources using narrative techniques, simulations, games and multimedia to provide more immersive techniques and practice-based learning. For online or workshop classes, she has researched agent support for online group learning based on student interaction patterns and improvements in learning based on social constructivist pedagogy.
Chair, Network of Indigenous Partnerships, Charles Darwin University, Australia
Dr. Rob McMahon is an Associate Professor in the Media & Technology Studies Unit and the Department of Political Science in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. He holds a BA (History and Creative Writing) from the University of Victoria, a MJ (Masters of Journalism) from the University of British Columbia, and a PhD (Communication) from Simon Fraser University. His PhD Dissertation received a Dean's Convocation Medal. Prior to joining the University of Alberta in 2015, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher with the First Nations Innovation Project at the University of New Brunswick and co-founded the First Mile Connectivity Consortium, a national nonprofit association of Indigenous technology organizations. He is currently an Associate Professor in Media & Technology Studies/Political Science, and teaches in the Master of Arts in Communication and Technology (MACT) program. In 2020, Dr. McMahon received the Killam Accelerator award from the University of Alberta. He is currently the co-director of the DigitalNWT project, which employs a co-creational approach to strengthen the foundation of community-based digital literacy in the Northwest Territories (NWT).
University of Alberta, Canada
Adrian is the Co-Founder of TONIBUNG, a social enterprise based in Penampang Sabah. With extensive experience in participatory mapping, conducting community awareness workshops, enrichment planting, gravity water supply systems, and designing community-based micro-hydro systems, his work centers on improving the socio-economic conditions of rural indigenous communities in Sabah and Sarawak. A self-taught innovator, Adrian has installed many micro-hydro systems in indigenous villages across Malaysia and trained community groups in resource management and customary rights protection. TONIBUNG runs CREATE (Centre for Renewable Energy and Appropriate Technologies) a training center that aims to empower rural indigenous youths. He also served Malaysian Parliment as a senator for a term.
Founder of TONIBUNG and Centre for Renewable Energy and Appropriate Technologies (CREATE), Malaysia
Masitah is an associate professor at the School of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Masitah teaches courses related to Software Engineering to Computer Science undergraduate students, namely Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Requirements Engineering and Software Modelling, and Software Quality and Testing. Masitah co-founded and served as Chair of Kuala Lumpur ACM SIGCHI Chapter, for two consecutive terms – 2017/2019 and 2019/2021. Since its inception, the chapter has grown into a community that serves members of different backgrounds – academia, practitioners, governmental agencies, and societies.
Associate Professor, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Dr. Rachel Gong is a Deputy Director of Research at Khazanah Research Institute (KRI). Her ongoing research focuses on digital policy, including digital inclusion, the digital economy, and digital governance. She leads the team that produced KRI’s book on digital policy issues, “#NetworkedNation: Navigating Challenges, Realising Opportunities of Digital Transformation”. Rachel’s primary research interests lie in how digital technologies affect society, and her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Sociological Perspectives, the Journal of Consumer Culture, and the Journal of Technology in Human Services. Her work on “Going Viral: Online Goal Emergence and Adaptation in the Anti-Human Trafficking Movement” appears as a chapter in Communicating for Social Change: Intersection of Theory and Praxis. Rachel graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University and received her PhD in sociology from Stanford University.
Khazana Research Institute, Malaysia
Ezra Uda is currently working as Penan Affairs Department officer at the Sarawak Planning Unit, Sarawak. He obtained his Bachelor of Social Science from Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia. He later joined Sarawak Civil Service and first posted as an officer in the Chief Minister Department firstly at Special Project Unit (2004- 2005). His interest and concerned been working closely with multi-agencies to improve the livelihood of the rural community especially the Penan indigenous group in Sarawak. He is actively advocates the Penan community in their struggle to gain development and education through his official function as the government officer and also through volunteerism work and Non- Government Organization. He has established an NGO call PADE Penan Sarawak in 2011 specifically to look into education and development affair of the Penan.
Economic Planning Unit, Premier Sarawak Department
(Principal Director, Resettlement & Penan Affair Sector) and
People’s Association For Development and Education of Penan Sarawak
Macarthy Anak Gindau (Mac) is the President of Bawang Assan Homestay Association. He is a promoter, practitioner and explorer of digital technologies for transformation of tourism sector. He is also a co-researcher in the multi-stakeholder Broadband over Power Line project and a user for MySRBN.
Bawang Assan Community Member, Sibu Sarawak
Dr. Zalizah Awang Long
Associate Professor and Dean of
Malaysian Institute of Information Technology
Universiti Kuala Lumpur
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