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International Advisory Council
International Advisory Council | International Crews | Board of Directors | Staff
Joichi Ito, CEO, Creative Commons | Japan [link]
Joichi Ito is the CEO of Creative Commons. He is a co-founder and board member of Digital Garage and the CEO of Neoteny. He is on the board of Technorati and helps run Technorati Japan. He is a Research Fellow the at Keio University SFC Research Institute. He is the Chairman of Six Apart Japan the weblog software company. He is the board of a number of non-profit organizations including The Mozilla Foundation, WITNESS and Global Voices. He has created numerous Internet companies including PSINet Japan, Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan and was an early stage investor in Six Apart, Technorati, Flickr, SocialText, Dopplr, Last.fm, Rupture, Kongregate, etology Inc and other Internet companies. He has served and continues to serve on various 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 the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy at Hitotsubashi University in Japan. He maintains a weblog where he regularly shares his thoughts with the online community. He is the Guild Custodian of the World of Warcraft guild, We Know.
Rick Smolan, Co-founder, Against All Odds Productions | Sausalito, California [link]
From Alice to Ocean: Alone Across the Outback was the first illustrated book to include an interactive CD-ROM disc. The San Francisco Chronicle called it, "a stunning, addictive and mesmerizing experience that may well change the course of publishing forever." In 2005 Actress Helen Hunt will be starring in a Disney movie based on the book.A former Time, Life and National Geographic photographer, Rick Smolan co-founded the best-selling "Day in the Life..." photography series. Smolan and his partner Jennifer Erwitt are also the co-founders of Against All Odds Productions, which specializes in the design and execution of large-scale global projects that combine compelling story-telling with state-of-the-art technology. Their projects have been featured numerous times on the covers of magazines around the world including Fortune, Time, Newsweek, Asia Week and US News & World Report.
Passage to Vietnam: Through the Eyes of 70 Photographers, a large-format illustrated book and a CD-ROM, was created in partnership with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Interval Research. The New York Times described Passage as, "the most beautiful CD-ROM ever." 24 Hours in Cyberspace: Painting on the Walls of the Digital Cave, was the largest online event ever to take place in a single day. ABC's Ted Koppel devoted an entire evening to 24 Hours on Nightline, and the project was also featured on the cover of US News & World Report. One Digital Day: How the Microchip is Changing Our World was produced in conjunction with the celebration of Intel's 30th anniversary. The book was featured on the cover of Fortune magazine and in a 30-page excerpt. CNN also ran a TV special about the making of the project. The Planet Project: Your Voice, Your World, was the largest Internet poll of the human race ever conducted. Over 1.5 million people from over 240 countries participated in real time over a 4 day period by answering a series of questions exploring what it's like to be a human being at the beginning of the Millennium. In addition, 500 'Planet Pollsters' were dispatched around the world to conduct the poll in remote regions of the globe to insure that the opinions of people who do not have access to technology were also included.
Joe Lambert, Executive Director, Center for Digital Storytelling | San Francisco, CA [link]
Joe Lambert is the Founding Director of the Center for Digital Storytelling. Joe founded CDS (formerly the San Francisco Digital Media Center) in 1994, with wife Nina Mullen and colleague Dana Atchley, as a community arts center for new media. Together they developed a unique computer training and arts program known as the Digital Storytelling Workshop. This process grew out of Joe's long running collaboration on Dana's solo theatrical multimedia work, Next Exit.
Since 1994, when the first Digital Storytelling Workshop was presented at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, Joe has been the lead in offering the process in 45 U.S. states and 20 countries, assisting in the completion of more than 10,000 video works. In addition to adapting Digital Storytelling for use in web sites, CD-ROMs, mural projects, and social issue campaigns, Joe has authored and produced curricula in many contexts, including the Digital Storytelling Cookbook, the principle manual for the workshop process, and the text entitled Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community.
Joe has been active in the Bay Area arts community for the last twenty-one years as an arts activist, producer, administrator, teacher, writer, and director. He was the Executive Director of the People's Theater Coalition from 1984-86. In 1986, he co-founded Life On The Water, a successful non-profit production company that offered a broad array of programs serving San Francisco's diverse communities. Joe has produced over 500 shows, ranging from theatrical runs, single performances, special events, citywide festivals, subscription series, and conferences. Prior to his career in the arts, Joe was trained as a community organizer and assisted in numerous local, statewide, and national public policy campaigns on issues of social justice and economic equity and earned a B.A. in Theater and Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Nancy Lee Peluso, University of California, Berkeley | Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management [link]
Nancy Lee Peluso teaches political ecology at the University of California, Berkeley and is Co-Director of the Berkeley Workshop in Environmental Politics. She does research on forest and agrarian politics in Southeast Asia, working primarily in Kalimantan and Java, Indonesia. She is the author or editor of three books: Rich Forests, Poor People: Resource Control and Resistance in Java (UC Press, 1992); Borneo in Transition: People, Forests, Conservation and Development (Oxford Press, 1996 and 2003, ed. with Christine Padoch); and Violent Environments (Cornell Press, 2001, ed. with Michael Watts), and many journal articles and book chapters.
Kiko Goifman, Filmmaker | São Paulo, Brazil
Kiko Goifman is an internationally recognized documentary filmmaker, an anthropologist and holds a master’s degree in multimedia from the Arts Institute of the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. His book and CD ROM, Jacks in Slow Motion won the Grand Prix Möbius in Paris/98 and it is part of the permanent collection of the Center Georges Pompidou. He has also participated in debates about documentaries with Frederick Wiseman (Montreal/1994), Jean Rouch (São Paulo/1998), Catherine David (São Paulo/2002) and Robert Drew (Tampere/2006). He is a jury member of the Prince Claus Fund Award - Cinemart Rotterdam 2005. Retrospectives of his films have been featured at the: Toulouse Festival 2005 and Tampere/2006.
John Danner, Senior Fellow, The Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley | Berkeley, CA [link]
