Jacek Oko has been appointed the new president of Poland’s Office of Electronic Communications (UKE).
Oko is a graduate of and a long-time researcher at the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, as well as an experienced manager in the telecommunications industry.
For many years, he combined didactic work with managerial positions at the IT Department of the University of Science and Technology and the Wroclaw Centre for Networking and Supercomputing. He also has extensive experience in business, having been in charge of departments responsible for technology and data transmission in telecoms companies, including Telefonia Lokalna and Telefonia Dialog.
Oko’s professional interests focus on technical, business and legal aspects of telecommunications services and ICT networks, internet development, convergence of telecommunications, IT and media, as well as on information society problems.
In his career, he led, among others, the projects on “Cybersecurity for the economy of the future”, “Specialised Polish Scientific Infrastructure for Research Laboratories (SPIN-LAB)” and “Cloud Computing – new technologies in the didactic offer of the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology”.
