The Sharing Economy
Joichi Ito, Creative
Commons International, Japan
In this talk the following topics are addressed:
- Creative Commons
- Open Source Software
- The Business of "Sharing"
- The Principle of End-to-End and Innovation in an open
network
- Blogging and Citizen Media
- Remix Culture
Biography
Joichi Ito is
General Manager of International
Operations for Technorati which indexes and monitors blogs and the
Chairman of Six Apart
Japan the weblog software company. He is on the board of Creative
Commons, a non-profit organization which proposes a middle way to
rights management, rather than the extremes of the pure public domain
or the reservation of all rights. He is a board member of Internet Corporation
For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the Open Source Initiative
(OSI). 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 "The Sharing Economy" as
a Doctor of Business Administration candidate at the Graduate School of
International Corporate Strategy at Hitotsubashi University in Japan.
He maintains a weblog
where he regularly shares his thoughts with the online community.
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