Current work
Sales executive – legal products
- Employer: Thomson Reuters
- Duration: January 2020 – present
- Location: Malaysia
- Core tasks:
- Promote products and services of Sweet & Maxwell / Thomson Reuters Legal to clients
- Key point of contact between Thomson Reuters and its clients by answering queries, offering advice and introducing new products
- Organize & execute sales field visits
Research & support
- Output: The Choice I Make online game
- Duration: October 2020 – present
- Program: The Choices We Make online game
- Location: Malaysia
- Core tasks:
- Monitoring & evaluation of the program
- Research & support
- Translation from English to Malay
- Focus group discussion
- Beta testing & launch of the game
- Program Collaborators & Trainers:
- Program Partner(s):
Previous work
Collaborator & trainer
- Program: Media Literacy Program For Malaysian Youths
- Program Collaborators & Trainers:
- Program Partner(s):
- Member of Parliament Lim Kit Siang (Iskandar Puteri constituency)
- Location: Malaysia
- Update: the first pilot 1-day workshop for Malaysian Youths (15-16 years of age) was held at National Secondary School of Mutiara Rini in Johor state on January 2020
Event Planner
- Client(s)/Partner(s): IFEX (International Freedom of Expression Exchange) (August 2019 – November 2019)
- Core task: Support the planning and organizing of the 2019 IFEX Asia Pacific Safer Communications and Secure Data Exchange
- Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Southeast Asia
Program Assistant
- Client(s)/Partner(s): Association of Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) (30 October 2018 – 31 August 2019)
- Core task: monitoring & evaluation based on SIDA’s results-based management approach
- Campaign: World Press Freedom Day 2019
- Location: Bangkok, Thailand, Southeast Asia
Research Associate, Course Manager
- Client(s)/Partner(s): DataViz My Sdn Bhd (August 2017 – August 2018)
- Training:
- Data Science On-Ramp Short Course,
- Fast Business Insight with Data,
- Intensive Course Corporate Package,
- Marketing Analytics 8-day Workshop,
- Masterclass: The Power of Data for Growing Your Business,
- Grow Your Business with Digital Marketing,
- Understanding your customers through analytics: how deep does this rabbit hole go?,
- Data Science in Retail Masterclass
- Community event: Data Science Meetup Kuala Lumpur
- Location: Malaysia, Southeast Asia
- Training:
Open Data Officer
- Client(s)/Partner(s): Small Media Foundation (June – December 2017)
Regional Community Coordinator
- Client(s)/Partner(s): Open Knowledge International (October 2016 – January 2017)
- Work: Global Open Data Index 2016
- Location: Southeast Asia
Project Consultant
- Client(s)/Partner(s): Sinar Project, Open Knowledge International/Open Spending (December 2015 – April 2016)
- Work: Open Spending Data in Constrained Environment
- Workshop:
- Articles:
- Location: Kota Damansara, Selangor, Malaysia
- Work: Open Spending Data in Constrained Environment
Regional Community Coordinator
- Client(s)/Partner(s): Sinar Project, Open Knowledge International (August – September 2015)
- Work: Global Open Data Index 2015
- Location: Southeast Asia
Fellowships, Academies & Awards
- Asia Pacific Internet Governance Academy (APIGA) 2017
- Award: Asia Pacific Internet Governance Academy (APIGA) 2017 Outstanding Performance Award
- Location: Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, South Korea
- Dates: 7-11th August 2017
- Sponsorships:
- The 6th Annual Asia Young Leaders for Democracy (AYLD) Program 2019
- Location: Taiwan Foundation for Democracy, No.4, Alley 17, Lane 147, Section 3, Sinyi Road, Taipei 106, Taiwan
- Dates: 20-26th August 2019
- Sponsorships:
Pro bono work
Member
- Community: Open Government Partnership CSO Hub (April 2015 – present)
- Community: Open Heroines (March 2016 – present)
- Community: Hack/Hackers Kuala Lumpur (January 2017 – present)
- Community: Big Data Malaysia (August 2017 – present)
- Community: Data Consortium (June 2019 – present)
Exco Member
- Client(s)/Partner(s): Internet Society Malaysia Chapter (March 2018 – September 2019)
Writer
- Client(s)/Partner(s): Small Media Foundation (June – December 2017)
- Writings: Open and Shut
- Author profile: https://medium.com/@hazwanyj
Facilitator
- Client(s)/Partner(s): Access Now, Youth For Rights, Sinar Project, NetMission.Asia (March – April 2017)
- Work: Youth For Rights 2017, a RightsCon Satellite Event initiated by AccessNow, Sinar Project and NetMission.Asia
- Recap article: The Birth of Youth For Rights
- Location: Brussels, Belgium
- Work: Youth For Rights 2017, a RightsCon Satellite Event initiated by AccessNow, Sinar Project and NetMission.Asia
Facilitator
- Client(s)/Partner(s): Fabriders (4th October 2017)
- Work: The Open Exchange for Social Change at International Open Data Conference (IODC) UnConference
- Notes available here.
- Location: Madrid, Spain
- Work: The Open Exchange for Social Change at International Open Data Conference (IODC) UnConference
Volunteer
- Client(s)/Partner(s): UndiMsia! (2012 – 2014)
- Location: Malaysia
Speaking events
2019
- Participation: Asia Pacific Trusted Media Summit 2019 (organized by Google News Initiative, First Draft and International Fact-Checking Network)
- Notes available here.
- Dates: 6th -7th December 2019
- Location: Mappletree Business City, 70 Pasir Panjang Rd, #03-71, Singapore 117371
- Sponsorships:
- Google News Initiative
- Talk (Remote Speaker): “Analyzing Perspectives on Youth Participation in the Multi-stakeholder Landscape: A Contextual Follow-Through Session on Motivations to Sustainability Efforts” at APrIGF
- Previous APrIGF events can be seen here.
- Date: 18th July 2019
- Location: Vladivostok, Russia
2018
- Talk (Remote Speaker): “Youth Participation Fills in Gaps, Niches Too” at APrIGF
- Previous APrIGF events can be seen here.
- Location: Port Vila, Vanuatu
- Talk: “Citizenry Struggles For Empowerment Through Media Literacies, Campaigning And Intervention In And Beyond Southeast Asia” at Project Southeast Asia Symposium
- Date: 22nd March 2018
- Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
- Workshop: “Exploring strategies for public awareness on security data breaches of individuals involving personally identifiable information” at Internet Freedom Festival
- Location: Valencia, Spain
- Sponsorship:
- Internet Freedom Festival
- Talk: “The journey of learning in data science is a marathon, not a sprint” at Women in Data Science Conference Kuala Lumpur
- Date: 5th March 2018
- Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2017
- Talk: “Access to rights online: Digital gap for disenfranchised and marginalized communities” at APrIGF
- Previous APrIGF events can be seen here.
- Date: 29th July 2017
- Location: Bangkok, Thailand
- Talk: “Adapting Civic Tech and Open Data Tools Across Borders” at Open and Shut Conference: Opening Up Data in Closed Societies
- Date: 21st September 2017
- Location: Friends House, 173-177 Euston Rd, London NW1 2BJ, United Kingdom
- Sponsorships: Small Media Foundation
- Workshop: “Access to Rights Online: Digital Gap for Disenfranchised and Marginalized Communities” at Rights Con
- Date: 31st March 2017
- Location: Brussels, Belgium
2016
- Talk: FOI/RTI Strategies at Uncovering Asia: The Second Asian Investigative Journalism Conference
- Date: 23rd September 2016
- Location: Kathmandu, Nepal
- Sponsorship: Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN)