Current work

Sales executive – legal products

Program: Media Literacy Program For Malaysian Youths
- Program Collaborators & Trainers:
  - Kuek Ser Kuang Keng
  - Darshini Kandasamy
- Program Partner(s):
  - Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC)
  - 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) will be held at National Secondary School of Mutiara Rini in Johor state on January 2020

(I am available for hire)

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

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

Client(s)/Partner(s): DataViz My Sdn Bhd (August 2017 – August 2018)
- Training:
- Community event: Data Science Meetup Kuala Lumpur
- Location: Malaysia, Southeast Asia

Client(s)/Partner(s): Small Media Foundation (June – December 2017)
- Work: Iran Open Data, Open and Shut
  - Articles:
- Location: remote

Client(s)/Partner(s): Open Knowledge International (October 2016 – January 2017)
- Work: Global Open Data Index 2016
- Location: Southeast Asia

Client(s)/Partner(s): Sinar Project, Open Knowledge International/Open Spending (December 2015 – April 2016)
- Work: Open Spending Data in Constrained Environment
  - Workshop:
    - Community open data workshop
    - Civil society and media open data workshop Malaysia
  - Articles:
- Location: Kota Damansara, Selangor, Malaysia

Client(s)/Partner(s): Sinar Project, Open Knowledge International (August – September 2015)
- Work: Global Open Data Index 2015
  - Article: The State of Open Data in Southeast Asia
- Location: Southeast Asia

Client(s)/Partner(s): Internet Society Malaysia Chapter (March 2018 – September 2019)

Client(s)/Partner(s): Small Media Foundation (June – December 2017)
- Writings: Open and Shut
- Author profile: https://medium.com/@hazwanyj

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

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

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:
  - Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA)
  - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
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:
  - Taiwan Foundation for Democracy

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

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

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

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)