Program :: Jacek Gajewski and Oliver Popov /Thematic Session III
NGO Roundtable

Role of the Civil Society in the Creation of
the National ICT Policy and Strategy

Jacek Gajewski: Professional Biography

Jacek Gajewski works as a Secretary General of the Central and Eastern European Networking Association (CEENet) and at a Computer Centre of Physics Faculty of Warsaw University, the cradle of Polish Internet. Dr Gajewski holds a Ph.D. from Warsaw in High Energy Physics from Warsaw University.

From 1988 till 1992 Dr Gajewski was a dean's Proxy for ICT and was a co-author of: the first Polish application to BITNET, the petition to President G. Bush to lift COCOM restrictions, a project to connect Polish universities (later transformed to National Academic Network). He was a Head of Faculty Computer Center, where first Polish: - e-journal, IP LAN, international TCP/IP link, WWW & Usenet servers were created. He carried variuos EC, NATO and OSI-funded ICT projects. Leader of "Internet for Schools" Programme (IdS), ThinkQuest and eXplora National Partner. Co-chairman of 12 international conferences organized in close collaboration with Prof. Oliver B. Popov.

Member of Internet Society, nominee to its Board of Trustees, Board member of ISOC Polska. Co-author of 70 articles. Winner of G7 jury ICT award, decorated with the Golden Cross of Merit for Internet development.

Oliver Popov : Professional Biography

Oliver Popov is a professor of Computer Science at the Institute for Informatics, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Saints Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia, and a visiting professor of Computer Science at the Institute of Information Technology and Media, Mid Sweden University in Sundsvall, Sweden. Professor Popov holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Missouri, Rolla, Missouri in USA. His research interests include protocol engineering, wireless and mobile networking, the application of multi agent paradigms and deviant logical systems to networking, and the Information Society. From 2000 to 2002 Professor Popov was a member of the NATO Computer Networking Panel He is currently a vice-chairman of Central and Eastern European Networking Association (CEENet), a founder and a president of MARNet (Macedonian Academic and Research Network) and a member of the Presidential Steering Committee on the Information Society. Within the framework of CEENet, along with Dr. Gajewski, he has organized numerous workshops on network technology, policy and management.