Joichi Ito
Digital Garage
Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer and Chief Architect
Joichi "Joi" Ito is a venture capitalist, entrepreneur, writer and scholar focusing on the ethics and governance of technology.
Ito is the chief architect, co-founder and board member of Digital Garage and serves on several for-profit and non-profit boards. He is a director of gmjp, an early-stage web3 fund, as well as the Center for Radical Transformation at the Chiba Institute of Technology and associate director of the Health Data Architecture Lab.
He served as director of the MIT Media Lab from 2011 to 2019 and was previously the board chair and chief executive of Creative Commons. He has served on other boards, including at The New York Times Company, Sony Corporation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, ICANN, and The Mozilla Foundation.
In 2011, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oxford Internet Institute for his work as one of the world's leading Internet activists. In 2013, he was inducted into the SxSW Interactive Hall of Fame, and in 2018, the Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives and the Antiracist Research & Policy Center named Ito to the FD200.
Ito is the chief architect, co-founder and board member of Digital Garage and serves on several for-profit and non-profit boards. He is a director of gmjp, an early-stage web3 fund, as well as the Center for Radical Transformation at the Chiba Institute of Technology and associate director of the Health Data Architecture Lab.
He served as director of the MIT Media Lab from 2011 to 2019 and was previously the board chair and chief executive of Creative Commons. He has served on other boards, including at The New York Times Company, Sony Corporation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, ICANN, and The Mozilla Foundation.
In 2011, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oxford Internet Institute for his work as one of the world's leading Internet activists. In 2013, he was inducted into the SxSW Interactive Hall of Fame, and in 2018, the Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives and the Antiracist Research & Policy Center named Ito to the FD200.
7/26
11:30AM - 12:00PM
(30min)
Japan's National Web3 Strategy: What Do the Next 5 Years Hold?
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