Most Recent Awards

List of the Awards

  • 2022 Best Article Award for the article “Individual perceptions of climate anomalies and collective action: Evidence from an artefactual field experiment in Malaysian Borneo” by the World Development Sustainability Journal Publisher: Elsevier, United Kingdom.
  • JCI Malaysia Sustainable Development Award 2021: for the project Strengthening Indigenous Resilience and exploring Indigenous perceptions of climate anomalies in Malaysian Borneo under the category of SDG 13: Climate Change, 8 December 2021, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • Gold Award for the project Oroo', the Secret Signs: Virtual Exhibition and Multi-sensory Interfaces in the iSaintex – International Sarawak Innovation Exposition and MESTR STEM Festival Malaysia 2021, 4-5 December 2021, Sibu, Malaysia
  • Consolations award for the project Reflecting Distant Identities: Cultural Assimilation in Digital Interactive Museum in the iSaintex – International Sarawak Innovation Exposition and MESTR STEM Festival Malaysia 2021, 4-5 December 2021, Sibu, Malaysia
  • Best Poster Award -2021 for the Pluriversal Design: A Virtual Decolonising Exhibition in the Communities & Technologies Conference 2021, 21-26 June 2021, Seatle, USA.
  • UNESCO TechCul 2021 Entrepreneur Prize for the Cultural Engagement in Digital Interactive Museum (CEDIM), UNESCO Bangkok
  • Bronze Medal iENA Nuremberg 2015 - International Trade Fair Ideas-Inventions-New Products for the project Digitalising and Preserving Oroo’, a Secret Signage Language of the Nomadic Penans in the Rainforest, 31 October-3 November, Nuremberg, Germany
  • The IFIP Brian Shackel Award 2015 for the paper Penan’s Oroo Short Message Signs (PO-SMS): Co-design of a Digital Jungle Sign Language Application, 16 September 2015 Bamberg, Germany
  • The IFIP Interaction Design for International Development (IDID) Award 2015, for the paper Penan’s Oroo Short Message Signs (PO-SMS): Co-design of A Digital Jungle Sign Language Application, 16 September 2015 Bamberg, Germany
  • SIGCHI Best of CHI Honorable Mention Award: among the top 5% of all submission to CHI 2015: for the paper New Interaction Tools For Preserving an Old Language
  • Gold Medal in UNIMAS R&D Expo 2015 for the Project Digitalising and Preserving Oroo’, a Secret Signage Language of the Nomadic Penans in the Rainforest
  • Silver Medal in Malaysia International Technology Expo 2014 for the project Indigenous Knowledge Governance Framework, 20-22 February, Kuala Lumpur
  • Best paper presentation Award in IPID 8th International Annual Symposium, 7-10 December, Cape Town
  • Silver Medal Persidangan dan Eskpo Ciptaan Institusi Pengajian Tinggi Antarabangsa (PECIPTA 2013) for the project eToro: Indigenous Botanical Knowledge Management System of Penans, 7-9 November, 2013 Kuala Lumpur
  • Bronze Medal iENA Nuremberg 2013 - International Trade Fair Ideas-Inventions-New Products for the project eToro: Indigenous Botanical Knowledge Management System of Penans, 31 October-3 November, 2013 Nuremberg, Germany
  • Nomination for presentation under the category “eInclusion, eCommunity” for the project eToro: Indigenous Botanical Knowledge Management System of Penans for APICTA awards competition (International), 24-27 November, 2013 Hong Kong
  • MERIT Award APICTA (National) 2013 under the category “eInclusion, eCommunity” for the project eToro: Indigenous Botanical Knowledge Management System of Penans, 7 October, Kuala Lumpur
  • Winner Information Society Innovation Fund (ISIF) Asia Award 2013 under the category "Innovation on access provision" for the project eToro: Indigenous Botanical Knowledge Management System of Penans, Bali, Indonesia
  • Global Community Choice’s Award in the Spark13 conference in Granada, Spain on May 29, 2013 for the project eBario Innovation Village
  • Best Telecentre Innovation Award in the Spark13 conference in Granada, Spain on May 29, 2013 for the project eBario Innovation Village
  • Gold Medal in UNIMAS R&D Expo 2013 for the project eToro: Formalising Indigenous Knowledge Governance Framework, Kota Samarahan, Malaysia
  • PhD project "Charting Indigenous Knowledge in Malaysia" is featured by Asia Research News 2013 (Page 38)
  • MERIT Award APICTA (National) 2012 under the category “eInclusion, eCommunity” for the project Ngerabit eLamai: Penans Employing ICT for Rural Socio-Economic Transformation, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • Principal of the Year Award 2005-06 from Intel Education Teach to the Future Program, 2007 Pakistan