Joichi Ito

(excerpted from ICANN website)

Joichi Ito the chairman of the board of Creative Commons and CEO of Neoteny. He is a board member of Technorati, which indexes and monitors blogs and the Chairman of Six Apart Japan, the Japanese subsidiary of Six Apart, the weblog software company.

He has created numerous Internet companies including PSINet Japan, Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan. In 1997 Time Magazine ranked him as a member of the CyberElite. In 2000 he was ranked among the "50 Stars of Asia" by Business Week and commended by the Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications for supporting the advancement of IT. In 2001 the World Economic Forum chose him as one of the 100 "Global Leaders of Tomorrow" for 2002. He has served and continues to serve on numerous Japanese central as well as local government committees and boards, advising the government on IT, privacy and computer security related issues. He is currently researching ³The Sharing Economy² as a Doctor of Business Administration candidate at Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University in Japan. He maintains a popular weblog Joi.ito.com where he regularly shares his thoughts with the online community.

Joichi Ito was selected by the 2004 Nominating Committee to an additional term, which runs from the end of the 2004 annual meeting through the conclusion of the ICANN Annual Meeting in 2007.

Mr. Ito’s CV can be found at Joi's CV

[edit] Contact

• jito [at] neoteny.com

Pages Joichi has created at ICANN Wiki

• Joichi's open questions about Domain Monetization, "I am going to try to gather as much information as possible before I come to any conclusions. I urge people, especially those people who are in this business, to help me understand the issues and nuances." - Joichi
• Garbitrage

Affiliations

• ICANN Board
• Chairman of Creative Commons
• Mozilla Foundation Board
• WITNESS Board
• We Know guild master on Khadgar realm of World of Warcraft

External Links

• Blog
• Wiki