Applicant for Open Data Project Manager - REEEP

1. Profile: John Weeks

2. An Information Technology Enthusiast

3. ‘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

4. 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

5. An Energetic Advocate

6. 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

7. A Cultivator of Connections

8. 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

9. An Informed Ear

10. 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

11. More: john@jweeks.net
www.jweeks.net