Jakub Gornicki

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Core Participant
Core Participant
Jakub Górnicki
Role(s) Core Participant
Co-Lab(s) Platres 7-12 Feb, 2016
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Jakub Górnicki is a core participant of the Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era - European co-Laboratory.

His Peer Empowerment and Support Mentors is Andreas Kamilaris.


Jakub Górnicki at ePaństwo Foundations is responsible for projects dedicated to data journalism, civic engagement and general strategy of the organisation. He also curates Personal Democracy Forum: Poland and CEE and On top of data. He started by building communities. He formerly did it for British and German startups. Then he started to create community around Sourcefabric, an open source software producer for professional media. As a media consultant, in the past three years he's helped various media outlets in Georgia (tspress.ge, liberali.ge, netgazeti.ge, and seven others), Turkey (taraf.com.tr) and West Africa (wacsi.org). He teaches new media and blogging, and was named one of the most influential bloggers in Poland in 2012, 2013 and 2014.


Government lacks the will to inform the citizens about the state of affairs without adding propaganda
Public does not understand what is the decision making process in the government
Not enough participation both from the government and the citizens


Shadow Participants Anna Górnicka Magda Chodownik caption