# Joi Ito **Full Name:** Joichi Ito **Domain:** Internet Culture / Institutions / Technology and Society **Doc Type:** Person Node **Joi Ito** is an entrepreneur, investor, writer, and scholar who directed the [[MIT Media Lab]] from 2011 to 2019 and previously led Creative Commons. His work spans internet culture, institutional change, and technology’s social consequences. ## Corpus Boundary Ito appears in [[articles/STEVE|STEVE]]’s preserved social-resource index and in the institutional history around the Media Lab. That placement is a routing fact, not evidence of membership in [[Team Leela]] or endorsement of its interpretive frame. ## Routes [[articles/STEVE|STEVE]] · [[MIT Media Lab]] · [[articles/The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley|The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley]] · [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] ## Official Source - [Joi Ito — biography](https://joi.ito.com/bio.html)