Joi Ito

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Joichi Ito (伊藤 穰一, Itō Jōichi; born June 19, 1966) is a Japanese entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is the president of Chiba Institute of Technology. He is on the board of directors for the Gelephu Mindfulness City in Bhutan where he is also chairman of the Gelephu Investment Development Corporation (GIDC). He is a former director of the MIT Media Lab, former professor of the practice of media arts and sciences at MIT, and a former visiting professor of practice at Harvard Law School. Ito has received recognition for his role as an entrepreneur focused on Internet and technology companies. He notably founded PSINet Japan, Infoseek Japan, and fintech company Digital Garage. Ito is founder and managing partner of Neoteny and GMJP, an early-stage fund investing in web3 in Japan. He is former board member and CEO of Creative Commons, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Knight Foundation, The New York Times...

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