Kowalski Jarosław

Position: Piit

Director for the implementation of digital products in the Information Publishing Group PL SA previously for 6 years associated with the largest provider of content and educational solutions of Pearson PLC. Co -founder of the Education Committee and new technologies at the Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications. An expert of education and computer science markets in Central and Eastern Europe. In 1994-2012 he worked in the Polish branch of Novell Inc. Where, among others He supported the development, location and implementation of Suse Linux in Polish schools and the OpenOffice.org application.

One of the founders of the Coalition for open standards (KROS), which aim was to universal knowledge and use of open technological standards and open software by public and educational administration units. Involved in the initiatives of Ida BC and Join.up in the European Union. Actively supports the Incjatywy in the area of ​​interoperability in the IT sector, including integration at the system level, information exchange and the Federation of identity management systems.

He was a member of the Council of the Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications (PIIT) of two terms. As part of the Confederation, Lewiatan was a member of the Board of the Polish Association of Private Education Employers, and at the Internet Society Poland a member of the Audit Committee. By Pearson delegated to work under the European Learning Industry Group (Elig). Member of the Polish Information Society and deputy chairman of the SEATORY Council for Competence in the Information Technology sector.

In 1991 he graduated with honors with the Pedagogical University in Olsztyn with a master's degree in social sciences. In 1999, he was elected an employee of the Novell Inc. In 2014, he was awarded by the President of the Republic of Poland with the Bronze Cross of Merit for public activities in the IT and Education Industry.