2024:Program/Partner session: Legal Knowledge on Wikipedia – Accessibility of reliable information for the laymen

Session title: Partner session: Legal Knowledge on Wikipedia – Accessibility of reliable information for the laymen

Session type: Lecture

Track: Legal & Advocacy

Language: en

Legal Knowledge on Wikipedia – Accessibility of reliable information for the laymen

Description

Nowadays Wikipedia is a common source of knowledge in different disciplines of the science. Legal knowledge, as well as any other type of knowledge, should be certain and reliable. However, it is especially significant in the field of law to possess certainty about the possible effect of the undertaken legal acts. In this scope of matters we can point at Wikipedia. On Wikipedia we could build up a legal dictionary to find some short explanations of legal institutes important in everyday life. Any success of such an undertaking depends on the people who would be ready to offer their time and knowledge.

How does your session relate to the event theme, Collaboration of the Open?

Partner session

What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?

Everyone can participate in this session

Speakers

• Igor Adamczyk

Igor is an Assistant in the Department of Roman and Ancient Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw. His academic interests, rooted in his student years, encompass Roman law, comparative private law, and the history of private law.

In 2018, he successfully defended his master’s thesis and subsequently pursued doctoral studies at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences at UW. His doctoral dissertation, entitled "Favor Debitoris: The Idea of Debtor Protection in the European Legal Tradition," was completed under the supervision of Professor Tomasz Giaro.

He has been the recipient of several prestigious international scholarships and has authored or co-authored nine scholarly publications. His active participation in international conferences and contribution to the Warsaw Centre for Transnational Law highlights his ongoing commitment to advancing legal scholarship.

• Olga Kotyk

Olga Kotyk, Founder and President of WEB-KORKI Foundation, and author of the ebook “Just Act! A guide for future leaders of charitable organizations (and more)”.

Since 2020, the Foundation has been helping to equalize educational opportunities for children from orphanages and supporting volunteers in their personal development. 200 people from all over the world are involved in Web-Korki which provide unique remote tutoring for their charges (about 5,000 classes were conducted in 2.5 years).

Olga has twice been recognized by Forbes magazine, which listed her in 2022: “25 under 25,” and in 2023 she was among the ‘23 women to follow in 2023’ according to Forbes Women.

She is also the winner of the Leslaw A. Paga Award in the “Leader of Tomorrow” category, and received a distinction from the President of the City of Poznan in the competition for the best non-governmental initiative implemented by the residents of Poznan.