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Jarek Kowalski<br />

Digital Solutions & New Business Director at Pearson<br />

jaroslaw.kowalski@pearson.com<br />

http://www.pearson.com<br />

Personal Profile<br />

Jarek is an expert in IT and Education sectors in Central and Eastern Europe. He<br />

was founder memeber of the Coalition of Open Standards with intention to<br />

introduce and promote open IT standards and open source software in education<br />

and public administration. He was supporting IDA BC and join.up initiatives in EU.<br />

When leading Novell organization in Poland he has supported development and<br />

localization of the SuSE Linux and OpenOffice.org and made them widely adopted<br />

at schools. Jarek is also supporting interoperability initiatives in IT sector, including<br />

systems integration, data exchange and user identities federation.<br />

As a member of the Polish Chamber of Information Technology and<br />

Telecommunications he is holding Chairman seat at the Digital Learning<br />

Committee and is working closely with other education vendors, government and<br />

NGOs.He is also holding seats at the Assosiation of Private of Private Education<br />

Employers at Confederation Lewiatan and the Internet Society Poland.<br />

Jarek holds a Master of Social Sciense from the Pedagogical University in Olsztyn.<br />

He has been awarded Bronze Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland in regards to<br />

his service in IT and Education sectors. In 1999 he has been recognized as the<br />

Marketing Employee of the Year at Novell Inc.

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