My name is Shaz and I am a digital governance specialist focusing on people-centred cities and structural inclusion.

I have spent ten years understanding how cities and public sector organisations use data and artificial intelligence, and I advise city leaders and not-for-profits as a consultant. I am currently working with Technopolis on the European Commission’s Intelligent Cities Challenge.

My perspective is sociotechnical, steeped in international development and rooted in social impact. A lot of issues can be addressed by centering people’s experiences and organisational change management.

Read my writing here.

Agile leadership

While I am a social scientist at heart, I am a communicator who wants to enable people to make genuine structural change. That happens with leadership, collaborations and organisational culture.

In all my projects, I encourage an agile approach, a growth mindset and a culture of inclusion.

My most recent project is a report called ‘Beyond Burnout: How I made my PhD and social research agile by adapting scrum values.’ It tells the stories and the journey of how I made agile work in my context, based on my collaboration with Nikitas Chronas Foteinakis. You can find the report and the slidedeck here.

Global Data Justice

My PhD research analyses tech policy in Singapore, a pioneer in both urban technology and its regulation. I explore how technology governance is social, and what strategies are used to negotiate ambiguous boundaries.

The thesis is a multi-disciplinary ethnography funded by the Global Data Justice project at the Tilburg Institute of Law, Technology and Society in the Netherlands. I am currently finalising the PhD alongside full-time commitments.

Contact

To chat, come say hi on Linkedin. For consulting and speaking inquiries, send me an email at [email protected].