BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

He has been working for NASK (Research and Academic Computer Network) for over 4 years. During this period, he built and developed the Dyżurnet.pl Team, which deals with reports of illegal content on the Internet. He participates in the implementation of European Union contracts and projects from the Safer Internet group. Before that, he worked for 9 years at Polish Telecommunication (the national telecom operator), where he led the Security Department, building the first team that reacted to reports of various Internet abuse. He graduated from the Military University of Technology, where he defended his doctoral thesis on cryptographic information protection. Marek Dudek has often been a speaker at various conferences on information protection and on reacting to Internet abuse. He participated in the work of the international ETNO organization (The European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association), and since his move to the NASK, he is involved in the work of INHOPE (the International Association of Internet Hotlines ) – an organization of all hotline teams working worldwide, responsible for receiving and acting on notifications of illegal contents, received from Internet users. Together with the team, he runs the website www.dyżurnet.pl, which contains documents and statistical data on the Safer Internet programme.