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Joi Ito
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Joichi Ito(伊藤穰一,Itō Jōichi?, born June 19, 1966), more commonly known as Joi Ito, is a Japaneseactivist, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist.
Ito has received recognition for his role as an entrepreneur focused on Internet and technology companies and has founded, among other companies, PSINet Japan, Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan.
He maintains a blog, a wiki and an IRC channel and contributes to the Tokyo Metroblogging.
Joichi Ito | American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Ito is the CEO of Creative Commons.
Family and education
Ito was born in Kyoto, Japan. His family moved to Canada and then when Ito was about age 3 to a suburb of Detroit, Michigan in the United States where his father became a research scientist and his mother a secretary for Energy Conversion Devices, Inc., now Ovonics.
Company founder Stanford R. Ovshinsky was impressed with Ito, whom he thought of almost as his son. Ovshinsky helped Ito develop h Opinion | He Who Must Not Be Tolerated - The New York Times NOZE