Tamara Tachynska is Co-Founder and CEO of Qela, a civic technology platform designed to help political and civil society organisations build, engage and retain communities of supporters and volunteers. She has more than 20 years of experience across communications, management, media and politics, with particular expertise in reputation strategy, crisis communications and community engagement. At Qela, her work focuses on using gamification and technology to turn passive audiences into active participants through campaigns, volunteering, education and co-decision-making. Tamara is also a Fellow of the Alliance of Democracies Foundation’s Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellowship.