Bio

I am a lawyer, researcher, journalist, and open-data specialist working at the intersection of media, public-sector data, and artificial intelligence. I am co-founder of Vocative AI ↗, a platform that turns speech into action through intelligent voice automation, and of the Media 3.0 foundation, through which I have run open-data and media-watchdog projects since 2013.

I served on two government working groups: the Working Group on Open Data at the Ministry of Digital Affairs and the Working Group on the Re-use of Public Sector Information at the Ministry of Investment and Economic Development. I have delivered training programs for organizations including Gazeta Wyborcza, Polska Press, and the Information Society Development Foundation (Fundacja Rozwoju Społeczeństwa Informacyjnego). In 2018, I trained the open-data coordinators of all Polish ministries and central government institutions, and through a Facebook-funded digital-skills initiative my fellow trainers and I helped educate more than 11,000 participants.

I collaborated with Gazeta Wyborcza as a journalist (2012–2014) and served as Editor-in-Chief of regional media in Silesia (Wydawnictwo Nowiny, 2009–2012). Over the years I have designed and co-developed roughly seventy web applications for processing and analyzing public-sector data. These include civic-tech tools such as KtoRządzi.pl ↗, which maps the connections between political power and business by combining official public registers, and a data tool built within Google's Digital News Initiative. I also organize HackHeroes, a nationwide educational hackathon.

Alongside my legal and journalistic work, I am a sound and audiovisual artist performing under the alias złe oko (“evil eye”), working with generative systems, real-time neural audio synthesis, and experimental sound. I have created and curated art events, including the Insomnia Art Festival and immersive concert projects.

My interest in public affairs and the humanities began early. In July 2001, on the strength of a literary piece on addiction, I was selected as a member of the Children and Youth Parliament (Sejm Dzieci i Młodzieży), a mandate issued by the Chancellery of the Sejm. Having taken my seat after “a few” glasses of good wine, I was quite possibly the youngest inebriated member of parliament in the Sejm's history. Around the same time I attended the Flying University of “Znak”, following lectures by Ryszard Kapuściński, Norman Davies, Adam Zagajewski, and others.

I hold a law degree from the European University of Law and Administration (EWSPA), affiliated with the Polish Academy of Sciences, and completed postgraduate studies in Machine Learning and Data Science at the University of Economics in Katowice. I also studied Political Science at the Jagiellonian University and Philosophy, Sociology, and Spanish at the University of Silesia.

I am the author of the book Data Journalism and Data Storytelling (Dziennikarstwo danych i data storytelling), published by Helion, and co-author of a University of Wrocław monograph on open data and data storytelling. I have taught in the Social Informatics program at AGH University of Krakow (2022–2024), running classes on designing and managing applications and social startups.

Together with the Media 3.0/SAP team, I won third place in the first Polish Government Open Data Hackathon and later mentored its next edition. In 2012, I translated Alejandro Jodorowsky's Psychomagic (Psychomagia) from Spanish into Polish. I work in Polish and English, and translate from Spanish and Japanese.