text: Sebastian Grabowski’s research focuses on Open Data, Open API, interactions between users of telecommunications networks and the Internet as well as issues related to Open Government. For the past 12 years he has been involved in the telecommunications industry, currently he works in Orange Lab, which is an international organization network of R&D of Orange Group. He is the Director of Service Platforms & Middleware Division. He is a co-founder of the Open Middleware 2.0 community – a program bringing together different communities of developers, researchers, technology suppliers and IT companies near the world of Telecommunications and IT.