Nationality Polish Name Piotr Waglowski Website www.prawo.vagla.pl | Awards Other names VaGla Role Poet | |
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Born 17 May 1974 (age 49) ( 1974-05-17 ) Warsaw 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 | ||
Tej jesieni: Piotr Waglowski do Senatu
Piotr Waglowski (born 17 May 1974, Warsaw), known online as VaGla, is a Polish lawyer, poet, publicist and webmaster, open government activist, researcher of communication processes in the paradigm of social constructionism.
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- Tej jesieni Piotr Waglowski do Senatu
- Academic activity and teaching
- Public and social services
- Awards and prizes
- References
Academic activity and teaching
Waglowski specialised in the legal aspects of the information society and the legal analysis of the Internet-based projects. A graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw, he dedicated his Master's thesis to the subject of infringement of personality rights on the Internet and their civil law protection based on the Civil Code. He studied at the doctoral level at the Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, currently working on his PhD dissertation. His teaching experience is dedicated mostly to media education. He has taught 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
Waglowski is recognized as one of the first Wikipedians in Poland. In 1995, he founded the first Polish-language electronic mailing list on law, known as "[email protected]". Two years later, he started his private Internet service VaGla.pl Prawo i Internet, dedicated to the legal aspects of the information society
Waglowski was a founding member of the Internet Society Poland. From 2001-06, he was a member of the board of the Society. He has authored numerous articles on the legal aspects of the information society. In 2005 he has published book "Prawo w sieci. Zarys regulacji internetu", which was one of the first publications on this subject in Poland. Since December 2006 he has served in the Program Council of the bi-monthly magazine Elektroniczna administracja (Electronic administration). He is a member of the Program Council of the quarterly Prawo Nowych Technologii, and a columnist for the monthly magazine IT w administracji.
Together with Jarosław Lipszyc he initiated the celebration of the Public Domain Day in Poland, which has been celebrated for the first time in 2007.
On 14 August 2006, Deputy Prime Minister Ludwik Dorn appointed Waglowski for the member of the Informatization Council. On 23 March 2007 he was nominated for membership in the Council of Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunication.
Since 2009 he has served as a member of the Program Council of the Panoptykon Foundation From March 2012 until February 2013 he worked with Fundacja ePaństwo as Policy Director.