Joichi Ito
Co-Founder and Board Member
Digital Garage
Joichi Ito is a co-founder and board member of Digital Garage (http://www.garage.co.jp/) and the CEO of Neoteny (http://www.neoteny.com.) He is the Chairman of Creative Commons (http://www.creativecommons.org). He is on the board of Technorati (http://www.technorati.com/) and helps run Technorati Japan (http://www.technorati.jp/). He is the Chairman of Six Apart Japan (http://www.sixapart.jp/) the weblog software company. He is the board of a number of non-profit organizations including The Mozilla Foundation, The Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and WITNESS (http://www.witness.org/). He has created numerous Internet companies including PSINet Japan, Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan. 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 "The Sharing Economy" as a Doctor of Business Administration candidate at the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy at Hitotsubashi University in Japan. He is a fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Communications. He maintains a weblog (http://joi.ito.com/) where he regularly shares his thoughts with the online community. He is the Guild Custodian of the World of Warcraft guild, We Know (http://weknow.to/forums/).
Current Positions
See LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/joiito for active positions.
Past Positions
2000-Present
* WEF Global Leader for Tomorrow class of 2002
* January 6, 2000 - Member of Economic Planning Agency Study Group on The Center of Intellectual Activity in the World
* Prix Ars Electronica Jury Member 1995-2002, 2004-2005 (missed 2001, 2003)
* March 6, 2000 - Member of Ministry of International Trade & Industry Working Group on e-Trade
* March 6, 2000 - Member of Science and Technology Agency Study Group on Information Security Technology
* April 11, 2000 - Ministry of International Trade & Industry Study Group on Private Equity Finance
* June 2000 - Commendation by Director General of Kanto Bureau of Telecommunications at Telecom Fair 2000/Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications - 郵政省関東電気通信監理局 - 情報通信月間・個人表彰
* July 2000-January 3, 2001 - Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Study Group on e-Quality
* December 2000-present - National Land Agency/Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Study Group on The Context of Global Culture
* January 2001 - Cabinet Office Study Group on Economic Society in the 21st Century and the IT Revolution
* June 2001 - National Police Agency Study Group on Malicious Programs
* June 2001 - Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Study Group on Disclosure Requirements for Listing Companies
* October 2001 - Cabinet Office National Survey on Lifestyle Preferences/Consumer Policy Committee Board Member
* December 2001-present - National Police Agency Committee on General Security Measures
* 2001 - Chosen as World Economic Forum Global Leader for Tomorrow for 2002
* March 2002-present - Ministry of Justice Study Group on Japan's Position for the UN Electronic Contracting Convention
* June 26, 2002-present - Pia Corporation, Board Member
* March 2002-December 2002 - New Business Conference / Chairman of New Business Forum Committee
* 2002 - 2003 - Cabinet Office Consumer Policy Committee / Committee Member
* 2002 - 2003 - National Tax Bureau study group on IT and Taxation / Study Group Member
* 2002 - 2003 - Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecom IT Venture Research Group / Member
* 2003 - Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Post and Telecom Government Issued Personal Digital Authentication System Technical Standards Inquiry Committee / Member
* 2004 - O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference Emergent Democracy Forum Program Committee Member / Speaker
* 2004 - Howard Dean Net Advisory Net / Member
* 2004 - Portal Business Companies of Rakuten Inc. / Advisory Board Member
* Formerly - Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai) / Secretariat Member
* Thru 2005 - International Foundation for Information Technology / Councilor
* Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecom Study Group on Privacy / Study Group Member
* Thru 2006 - Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility / Japan Chapter Treasurer
Through 1999
* 1970 - Moved to U.S. with parents and educated mostly in the U.S.
* 1981-82 - Nishimachi International School - Jr. High School (Japan)
* 1982-84 - American School in Japan - High School (Japan)
* 1984-85 - Tufts University (USA)
* 1986-87 - University of Chicago (USA)
* 1990-91 - Associate to the Executive Producer of "Indian Runner" a motion picture (USA)
* 1994 - Established Eccosys, Ltd. (Japan)
* 1995 - Established Digital Garage, Inc. (Japan)
* 1995 - President of PSINet K.K. (Japan)
* 1996 - Jury of Interactive Media Festival '95 (USA)
* 1996 - Member of Ministry of Posts and Telecom study group on E-Money(Japan)
* 1996 - International Executive Board Member and Japan Committee Technical Producer of the Internet 1996 World Exposition
* 1997 - Headmaster of "Bithaus" Digital Media School (Japan)
* 1997 - Ranked by Time Magazine as member of Cyber Elite 1997 (USA)
* 1997-1998 - Member of Ministry of Posts and Telecom study groups on "International Policy Strategy", "Network Technology" and "Information Technology New Business Forum" (Japan)
* 1997-1998 - National Police Agency study groups, "Network Security Vision" and "Unauthorized Access Countermeasures" (Japan)
* April 1998 - Established Bithaus Laboratory (Japan)
* 1998-1999 - Computers Freedom & Privacy '99 - Program Committee Member (USA)
* 1999-2000 - National Land Agency Study Group on Tokyo in the Context of Global Culture
* June 24, 1999 - Established Infoseek Japan, K.K. Appointed Director and Chairman
* December 1999 - Began incubation business @ Neoteny Co., Ltd
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