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Joichi Ito: Net Vision / Net Excellence Jury Member

One of the 'Global Leaders of Tomorrow' chosen by the World Economic Forum for 2002 is Joichi Ito, a poster child for the IT revolution in Japan. He is involved in Prix Ars Electronica since 1995: he was already member of the very first Net jury.

Joichi Ito (Japan) is the founder and CEO of Neoteny an IT investment and operating company. 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.

With a childhood split between the US and Japan, Joichi Ito jokes that he is probably the only illiterate CEO in Japan, having dropped out of Japanese language classes during his school years. He insists on running a bilingual, bicultural company, because he feels that biculturalism embodies the best hopes for Japan's future, but also so he can get away with doing his email correspondence in English. Neoteny is not his first bicultural company. Eccosys, one of his first Internet ventures, was founded with people whose experience in the US and English proficiency gave them an edge in the dawn of the Internet in Japan.

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