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'''Joichi Ito''' is the Chairman and CEO at [[Creative Commons]]. He is also serving as a a Board Member, Advisor, and Trustee of various ICT related companies.<ref>[http://ae.linkedin.com/in/joiito Linkedin]</ref>

'''Joichi Ito''' is the Chairman and CEO at [[Creative Commons]]. He is also serving as a Board Member, Advisor, and Trustee of various ICT-related companies.<ref>[http://ae.linkedin.com/in/joiito Linkedin]</ref>

==Background==

==Background==

He has served and continues to serve on numerous Japanese commercial, as well as local government, committees and boards, advising on IT, privacy, and computer security related issues. He is a co-founder and board member of [[Digital Garage]]. He is on the board of Culture Convenience Club ([[CCC]]).<ref>[http://www.ccc.co.jp/eng/company/profile/executive/ Culture Convenience Club (CCC)]</ref> He is a Senior Visiting Researcher of [[Keio Research Institute]] at Shonan Fujisawa Campus in Japan. He is the Chairman of [[Six Apart Japan]] the weblog software company. He is on board of a number of non-profit organizations including The [[Mozilla]] Foundation <ref>[http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/about.html Mozilla.org]</ref>, [[WITNESS]] and [[Global Voices]].<ref>[http://globalvoicesonline.org/about/board-of-directors/ Global Voice]</ref> He has created numerous Internet companies including [[PSINet]] Japan, [[Digital Garage]] and [[Infoseek Japan]] and was an early stage investor in Twitter,<ref>[http://blog.twitter.com/2008/01/twitter-in-japan.html Twitter.com]</ref> [[Six Apart]], [[EPIC]] <ref>[http://epic.org/epic/advisory_board.html EPIC.org]</ref>, [[Technorati]], Flickr, SocialText, [[Dopplr]], Last.fm, [[Rupture]], [[Kongregate]] and other Internet companies.<ref>[http://joiwiki.ito.com/joiwiki/index.cgi?joi_ito JoiWiki]</ref> He maintains a weblog where he regularly shares his thoughts with the online community. He is the Guild Custodian of the World of Warcraft guild, [[We Know]].

He has served and continues to serve on numerous Japanese commercial, as well as local government, committees, and boards, advising on IT, privacy, and computer security-related issues. He is a co-founder and board member of [[Digital Garage]]. He is on the board of Culture Convenience Club ([[CCC]]).<ref>[http://www.ccc.co.jp/eng/company/profile/executive/ Culture Convenience Club (CCC)]</ref> He is a Senior Visiting Researcher of [[Keio Research Institute]] at Shonan Fujisawa Campus in Japan. He is the Chairman of [[Six Apart Japan]] the weblog software company. He is on board of a number of non-profit organizations including The [[Mozilla]] Foundation <ref>[http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/about.html Mozilla.org]</ref>, [[WITNESS]] and [[Global Voices]].<ref>[http://globalvoicesonline.org/about/board-of-directors/ Global Voice]</ref> He has created numerous Internet companies including [[PSINet]] Japan, [[Digital Garage]] and [[Infoseek Japan]] and was an early-stage investor in Twitter,<ref>[http://blog.twitter.com/2008/01/twitter-in-japan.html Twitter.com]</ref> [[Six Apart]], [[EPIC]] <ref>[http://epic.org/epic/advisory_board.html EPIC.org]</ref>, [[Technorati]], Flickr, SocialText, [[Dopplr]], Last.fm, [[Rupture]], [[Kongregate]] and other Internet companies.<ref>[http://joiwiki.ito.com/joiwiki/index.cgi?joi_ito JoiWiki]</ref> He maintains a weblog where he regularly shares his thoughts with the online community. He is the Guild Custodian of the World of Warcraft guild, [[We Know]].

==ICANN==

==ICANN==

Joichi Ito was selected by the 2004 Nominating Committee to an additional term, which ran from the end of the 2004 annual meeting through the conclusion of the [[ICANN]] Annual Meeting in 2007. <ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/biog/ito.htm ICANN.org]</ref> He has reflected on the status of ICANN and his three years with the organization on his [http://joi.ito.com/weblog/icann/ blog].

Joichi Ito was selected by the 2004 Nominating Committee to an additional term, which ran from the end of the 2004 annual meeting through the conclusion of the [[ICANN]] Annual Meeting in 2007. <ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/biog/ito.htm ICANN.org]</ref> He has reflected on the status of ICANN and his three years with the organization on his [http://joi.ito.com/weblog/icann/ blog].

* Secretariat Member at Keizai Doyukai - Japan Association of Corporate Executives, April 1999 - 2005.

* Secretariat Member at Keizai Doyukai - Japan Association of Corporate Executives, April 1999 - 2005.

* Vice Representative Secretariat Member at Enjin01 / The Cultural Stategy Council, January 2000 - 2005.

* Vice Representative Secretariat Member at Enjin01 / The Cultural Strategy Council, January 2000 - 2005.

* General Manger of Global Operations at [[Technorati]], March 2004 - September 2006.

* General Manager of Global Operations at [[Technorati]], March 2004 - September 2006.

* Board Member at [[MetaBrainz]] Foundation, April 2005 to October 2006.

* Board Member at [[MetaBrainz]] Foundation, April 2005 to October 2006.

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