About Preetam
Hello, I am an educator, technologist and traveler. I help organize tech and culture un-conferences across Asia. I am I am often on the road connecting people and exploring ideas. I talk about online trends in Asia and beyond, accessibility, educational technology and travel.
I am an Apple distinguished educator.
I run the Singapore Travel Meetup group. I was also the South East Asian regional editor at Global Voices Online, the biggest social media aggregation service around.
Content on this web is available for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution License unless explicitly stated on the particular post or media.
Email me at preetamrai at gmail.com. My twitter id is @preetamrai.
Upcoming events and presentations where I am presenting/showing up
October 9 and 10, 2010 - Barcamp Singapore
October 6 to 12, 2010 - Professional Certificate in New Media Communications
September 25 and 26, Barcamp Phnom Penh, Cambodia
September 18, Barcamp Hongkong
September 3, 2010 - Edu-tech meet, Singapore, We are putting up an meeting of educators exploring technology. This is a starting point to hold a larger educamp in the near future.
Some Past events
August 2010 - Presentation on User Generated Events in South East Asia at National University of Singapore
August 2010 blink BL-NK #6 at Blu Jazz, Singapore. Presentation titled "Changing the World by Just Showing UP". An overview of user generated learning events in East Asia. Singapore
July 2010 Open Web Asia, KL, Malaysia. Moderated the opening session on Growing Digital in Asia, Ran an un-conference session on web and mobile highlights in Asia and Africa.
July 2010 Organized the Travel- Bookclub meet at Woodlands Regional Library with speakers talking about New Zealand and Australia. My own presentation was on Fiji and Tonga, Travel Bookclub meet, Woodlands Central Library, Singapore
June 2010 Creative Commons Salon - Presentation on My experience with Creative Commons Licensing Hackerspace.sg, Singapore
June 2009 Barcamp Create Jakarta - Presentation on hyperlinking the world and what's happening in the region. Jakarta, Indonesia.
May 2010 Barcamp Tokyo @ Oracle Japan. Presentation We need the Japanese in Asia - how we need to more Japanese participation in tech events in Asia and what ideas they can bring to us.
May 2010 Barcamp Mekong, Can Tho, Vietnam Presentation on Running low budget tech events
April 2010 Barcamp Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Sessions on "the future of Education"
April 2010 Traveling South East Asia - Organized a travel event with speakers from Thailand and Myanmar focussing on interesting things to explore while visiting these countries.
March 2010 Helped put together the fifth Barcamp in Singapore with Singapore Polytechnic. We had about 300 participants from half a dozen countries. A review video posted by one of attendees here
March 2010 Apple Distinguished Educator 2010 Class. Presentation on Globalschool - a platform for teachers to identify a class in another region to collaborate with.
March 2010 Ran some modules in a Singapore Civil Services College's Professional Certificate in New Media for media professionals in Singapore.
January 2010 Barcamp Yangon, Myanmar. Session on Image Manipulation Tricks, Community Learning.
December 2009, Neoteny Camp, Singapore - One of the winning presentations in Mozilla Drumbeat Challenge - A Hat-tip system for Free Content Producers
November 2009. Barcamp Singpore 4, Help put together the fifth edition of Barcamp in Singapore in collaboration with the IDA. Video made by IDA here
October 2009, Put together a Japan Culture-Book club meetup at Woodlands regional library
September 2009 Barcamp Hong Kong, Presentation on Travel in the Web Age.
July 2009, Korea Culture-Book Club event at Woodlands regional library.
July 2009, Ed-tech workshops for technical educators from Wuhan provice of China
May 2009, Barcamp Bangkok,Presenations on Green ideas for home, Near field contact exchange
May 2009, Barcamp Tokyo. Presentation on Technology Scene in Africa, Global Voices Online Project
http://www.slideshare.net/preetamrai/global-voices-online-bringing-the-world-...
