Gdynia

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Introduction

Gdynia is the city of 255 000 population, located in the northern part of the Tricity agglomeration, between the Gdansk Bay and the towns of Sopot, Gdansk and Rumia. It has elaborated a modern development strategy and land use plans, good infrastructure and provides efficient traffic services. Gdynia’s social and economic development results maily from its seaside location. The port & shipbuilding industry with related activities and research services is the predominant industry; fishery and land fish processing are also important. Gdynia is a well managed city; the income of its citizens is higher than average. Gdynia received the best marks in: absorptive power of local market, social and technical infrastructure and possibilities of recreation. The objective of the city’s policy is a socially accepted and ecologically safe development, allowing to reach European living standards within the foreseeable future.

In order to provide citizens and businesses with easily accessed interactive public services the City of Gdynia envisages implementation of a set of projects, among others, installing free of charge public internet access kiosks and preparing itself for a modern electronic document management system.
The City Hall of Gdynia employs 720 persons, of which about 10 persons will be involved in the USE-ME.GOV project implementation: the Deputy Mayors, Informatics Department, European Integration Department, City Hall Treasurer, Main Book-keeper of the City Hall, lawyer.

Role

As end-user partner for Poland, the City of Gdynia is actively involved in the project, participating in the following tasks:
- Service scenario definition,
- Pilot service specification,
- Platform and service implementation,
- Integration and pilot testing,
- Validation,
- Dissemination and exploitation.

Key personnel

Michal Guc is a Deputy Mayor responsible for the development and social aid in Gdynia. On behalf of the City he is in charge of European Integration Department, City Development Office, Statistical Analyses Department as well as Architecture Department. Besides he is the Mayor’s Plenipotentiary on NGOs’ issues and the Program Director and Trainer in the Civil Society Development Foundation. Earlier he was the Program Director in Gdynia Polish YMCA.

Krystyna Borkowska is a Manager of the European Integration Department of the City Hall of Gdynia. She has a university degree in geography and a certificate as a European Projects Manager. She is an experienced projects manager and has significant knowledge and practical experience, especially in PHARE fund procedures.

Beata Warszakowska is an officer in European Integration Department of the City Hall of Gdynia. She has graduated from Higher Business School – National Louis University in Nowy Sacz in Poland with a bachelor degree in Marketing & Management and Master of Arts degree in European Studies. She finished the postgraduate studies in International Relations. She is in charge of gathering information on the possible information society projects funding, as well as creating projects to be financed from the Structural Funds in the area if information society infrastructures.

Jerzy Przeworski in a head of the Informatics Department of the City Hall of Gdynia. He graduated at Lwow University of Technology, the Automatics Department, faculty of computer sciences. He is responsible for maintaining the computer system and network in the City Hall of Gdynia, in particular for working out and implementation of the complex computer system of the City Hall, assuring the modernity of solution to be implemented in the City Hall, definition and supervision over standards and parameters of software and hardware, etc.