[Air-L] Seeking info about famous internet people *not* from North America

[Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki]

Hi, Sue,

For Japan,

Jun MURAI, basically "The Father" of the Internet in Japan. For
an English-language overview of his past and future visions in
Japan, do a search in the Japan Times online
(http://www.japantimes.co.jp/). Wrote two best-selling books
about the possibilities of the Internet (in Japanese), one in
the late 1990s and another about three or four years ago.

Izumi AIZU, former head of GLOCOM (Center for Global
Communications) in Japan. Colleague of Howard Rheingold,
is the center of the chapter on Japan in "The Virtual
Community" (http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/, see
Chapter Seven link).

Shumpei KUMON, another "Father of the Internet" in Japan.
Founded the "New Institute for Social Knowledge and
Collaboration" at Tama University. Also famous for
for popularizing the phrase "Information Society" in
Japan.

Joichi ITO, ranked by TIME magazine as one of the
"Cyberelite." Is on the board of Creative Commons
and is a member of ICANN. Brother of Mimi ITO, famous
for her research on cellular phone use in Japan
(one of the editors of "Personal, Portable,
Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life,"
probably the best-known English-language book on
mobile phones in Japan).

HTH

Leslie
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Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki, Associate Professor
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Tsukuba
Email: tkach at japan.email.ne.jp
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