Piotr Waglowski

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Piotr Waglowski
Piotr Waglowski

Piotr Waglowski
Born (1974-05-17) May 17, 1974
Warsaw
Nationality Polish
Other names VaGla
Occupation lawyer, webmaster, author of publications on intellectual property (in particular on copyright and related rights), lecturer.
Known for contribution to informatization of Poland, contribution to the development of social consciousness of the information law in Poland
Awards
Website
www.prawo.vagla.pl

Piotr Waglowski also known as VaGla (born May 17, 1974 in Warsaw) - polish lawyer, poet, publicist and webmaster, open government activist, researcher of communication processes in the paradigm of social constructionism.

Academic activity and teaching

Piotr Waglowski specialised in the legal aspects of the information society and the legal analysis of the Internet-based projects. Graduating of the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw, he had dedicated his Master's thesis, written under the supervision of prof. Marek Safjan, to the subject of infringement of personality rights on the Internet and their civil law protection based on the Civil Code. Later he continued education on doctoral level in the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, currently working on his PhD dissertation.

Member of the College of Research and Education on the Information Law at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw.

His teaching experience is dedicated mostly to the media education. Piotr Waglowski has been teaching at the Lazarski University in Warsaw, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, and at the Faculty of Journalism and Political Studies of University of Warsaw.

Public and social services

Socially involved in the development of the polish Internet since 1994. Wikipedian, recognized as one of the first Wikipedians in Poland.

In 1995 he has founded first polish-language electronic mailing list on the law: "prawo@plearn.bitnet". In 1997 he has started his private Internet service VaGla.pl Prawo i Internet,[1] which is dedicated to the legal aspects of the information society[2] Founding member of the Internet Society Poland, and for the years 2001-2006 member of the board of the Society. Author of numerous articles [3] on the legal aspects of the information society. In 2005 he has published book "Prawo w sieci. Zarys regulacji internetu" (eng: "Law in the net. Outline of the regulation of the Internet"),[4] which has been one of the first publications on this subject in Poland.

Since December 2006 he serves in the Program Council of the bi-monthly magazine "Elektroniczna administracja" (eng. "Electronic administration").[5] He is also member of the Program Council of the quarterly "Prawo Nowych Technologii" (eng. "Law of New Technologies")[6] and a columnist in the monthly magazine "IT w administracji" (eng. "IT in administration").[7]

Together with Jarosław Lipszyc he had initiated the celebration of the Public Domain Day in Poland, which has been celebrated for the first time in 2007.[8]

On the August 14, 2006 deputy prime minister Ludwik Dorn appointed Piotr Waglowski for the member of the Informatization Council.[9] On March 23, 2007 he has been nominated member of the Council of Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunication.[10][11]

Since 2009 he also serves as member of the Program Council of the "Panoptykon" Foundation[12] and member of the Council of the Modern Poland Foundation.[13]

In March 2012 he started contributing to the work of the ePF (pl.: Fundacja ePaństwo) as Policy Director.[14] He worked there until mid-February 2013.

Awards and prizes

  • 2001: Internet Citizen of the Year 2001 - Piotr Waglowski has been the first to receive this title from the Organisational Committee of the Civil Internet for the essential contribution to the building the information society in Poland.
  • 2005: Bronze Cross of Merit in 2005 - In 2005 he had received from the President of Poland the cross "for the contribution to the development of informatization".[15]
  • 2010: Info Star 2010 - In 2010 he had received from the Centre of the Promotion of the Computer Science and Polish Information Processing Society the Info Star Prize in the category "promotion of the ICT law".[16]
  • 2011: (nomination) Man of the Year. Internet Standard 2011 - "for almost 15 years of writing blog-portal on law and Internet, for consequent support of the freedom in The Net, for describing in easy-to-understand form difficult legal subjects, for initiating substantive discussions, for the contribution to the research on copyright law in Internet." [17]
  • 2012:
  • 2013:
  • nominated to Radio TOK FM Prize[21]
  • ranked the most influential lawyer of 2012 [22]
  • received MediaTory prize (prize from journalism students of 13 Polish universities) for the year 2013 in cathegory "ReformaTOR" (eng. reformator) for highest-standard of citizenship investigation, consequent monitoring (watchdoging) authorities and controling legal reality for the benefit of whole society. As well as for 16-year-long patient instructing on how to protect own rights in the information society.[23]

References

  1. ↑ Internet service www.vagla.pl
  2. ↑ "Tekstylia bis. Słownik młodej polskiej kultury" (eng. "Tekstylia bis. Dictionary of the young polish culture"), p. 781 (Kraków 2006, ISBN 978-83-89911-43-8)
  3. ↑ List of publications (at the bottom of the page)
  4. ↑ "Prawo w sieci. Zarys regulacji internetu" (eng: "Law in the net. Outline of the regulation of the Internet"), Helion publishing house, ISBN 83-7361-854-6
  5. ↑ Program Council of the "Elektroniczna administracja" (eng. "Electronic administration")
  6. ↑ Program Council of the quarterly "Prawo nowych technologii" (eng. "Law of New Technologies")
  7. ↑ official website of the "IT w administracji" (eng. "IT in administration")
  8. ↑ Jarosław Lipszyc: 1 stycznia - Dzień Domeny Publicznej (eng. "January 1st - Public Domain Day")
  9. ↑ IDG: Piotr "Vagla" Waglowski członkiem Rady Informatyzacji (eng. "Piotr "VaGla" Waglowski member of the Informatization Council")
  10. ↑ Rada Polskiej Izby Informatyki i Telekomunikacji Kadencja 2007-2009 (eng. "Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunication, mandate 2007-2009")
  11. ↑ Rada Polskiej Izby Informatyki i Telekomunikacji Kadencja 2009-2011 (eng. "Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunication, mandate 2009-2011")
  12. ↑ official website of the "Panoptykon" Foundation
  13. ↑ Official news on the Modern Poland Foundation website
  14. ↑ VaGla Waglowski PDF-Poland and CEE: speakers: Piotr VaGla Waglowski
  15. ↑ "Monitor Polski" 83/2005, position 1183
  16. ↑ Information on the winners of the Info-Star prize
  17. ↑ Company and Man of the Year 2011 Internet Standard - nominations
  18. ↑ Samorząd Równych Szans i Forum Dostępnej Cyberprzestrzeni
  19. ↑ Press: Newsy Radio. Jagielski, Jurecki, Zimoch i Waglowski wśród nominowanch do Nagrody im. Andrzeja Woyciechowskiego 2012
  20. ↑ Nagroda Woyciechowskiego - Edycja 2012 - Nominacje
  21. ↑ Radio TOK FM: Nominowani do Nagrody Radia TOK FM
  22. ↑ Dziennik Gazeta Prawna: 50 najbardziej wpływowych prawników. II edycja rankingu
  23. ↑ MediaTory: Laureaci MediaTorów 2013 (pl.)

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