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Note: The text is heavily poached from danah boyd, who also cribbed it from David Weinberger.
First thing first, this is a personal website. The views expressed on this site are solely my own, and do not represent/reflect my employer(s), institution(s), or anyone else with whom I may be remotely affiliated. While I founded C2O library & collabtive, within this site, I am not speaking on behalf of the organisation, and what I say may not reflect the beliefs or interests of C2O—or any individual or organisation that I'm affiliated with. I say what I want and no one pays me to write this blog or say particular things in it. I am not compensated for my blog – I do not run ads, no one pays me under the table, and I don’t sell you t-shirts or coffee mugs or tote bags of any kind. I do get compensated to write in other places, but not here; I sometimes repost content that I write for elsewhere here because I think it might be of interest (and then I identify where it was originally posted), but I do not repost everything. I don’t do favors or write about people because they’re nice to me; I may write about other people when I think their work is interesting or when I’m working with them but I also might not.
- Since late 2013, I have been working full-time as a Research Associate at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore.
- Previously, I was a 2013 Graduate Research Fellow at Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.
- I'm the founder and director of C2O library & collabtive, an independent library and coworking community space established in 2008 in Surabaya, Indonesia.
I attend conferences, festivals and workshops, and regard them as important channels for information exchange and to meet people, but it also means spending a significant time, energy, thoughts, and money. I usually only attend when I present a paper, or am involved in the event organising. I don’t generally go to conference that charge admission fees unless I’m invited as speaker, and for out-of-town or overseas engagement, I usually rely on travel grants.
That said, I am willing to speak for free or pay my own travel & accommodation fees at not-for-profit conferences and other events whose cause I believe in, or those put together by my friends. I do my best to make room for actions that I think can make a difference, and am known for not being fussy about comfort. However, there are times when my means and time are limited, so please understand and don’t take it personally if I have to say no.
Unless otherwise stated, all contents are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0. That means, you do not need my permission to copy, distribute, transmit, or adapt any content on this site, as long as you attribute the work appropriately (but not in any way that suggests that I endorse you or your use of the work). You may not, however, use it for commercial purposes. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. Read the license here.