Joi Ito is coming to Bulgaria

My colleague and very good friend Joi Ito is coming to Bulgaria.

He will have a public lecture at the Sofia University on October 25th, at 5:30 p.m., at Auditorium 65.

Here’s what the ICANN web site says about him:

Joi Ito is vice president of international and mobility development for Technorati, which indexes and monitors blogs and the Chairman of Six Apart, 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 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 Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University in Japan. He maintains a popular weblog (http://joi.ito.com/) where he regularly shares his thoughts with the online community.

His visit to Bulgaria will include meetings with the Internet and bloggers community, members of the Parliament, ministers, businessmen.
More about Joi and his trip (in Bulgarian) can be found at portal.bg.