Jakub Górnicki

Jakub combines new technologies with journalism, blogging, government accountability and transparency. Jakub established Outriders to bridge cultures and societies by original reporting and providing global perspective through innovative storytelling. As a COO and board member of ePaństwo Foundation he developed it into leading open data/transpareny NGO globally.

During six years he established Code for Poland and took it into Code for All together with Code for America. Open Cities - program helping European cities adopt open data policies as well as Personal Democracy Forum in CEE and TransparenCEE. He remains a strong ambassador of Central Eastern Europe.