Global ICT Summit 2011

At Twitter, was a Special Advisor and Interim Country Manager before taking the current post from April 2011.

Also a Visiting Professor at Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy at Hitotsubashi University, and C-Founder of TABLE FOR TWO.

Has been awarded and designated Young Global Leader and New Asian Leader by the World Economic Forum (Davos), Inamori Fellow by Inamori Foundation, International Fellow by CSIS, and Asia21 Fellow by Asia Foundation.

Advised governments and corporations in multiple countries at McKinsey & Company, taught at the University of Tokyo, co-founded Health and Global Policy Institute, and was a political appointee at the Office of the Prime Minister within the Japanese Government.

A graduate of Keio University, Harvard Business School, and a Yale World Fellow.

Catherine Porter joined LinkedIn in 2010. She currently manages business development with a focus on Asia. Throughout her career, Catherine Porter has served in myriad key operations and marketing roles for global organizations, specializing in Asia Pacific markets. Prior to joining LinkedIn, she was vice president at Garnett & Helfrich Capital, a technology venture buyout firm, where she sourced and managed several investments. Catherine also held previous roles at Google and Oracle. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia in Asian Studies, specializing in Japanese studies.

Hal Seki. A managing director of volunteer-based earthquake information aggregation service sinsai.info using open-source mapping system Ushahidi. He has been working for Cirius Technologies as a geo developer and researcher for over five years. Cirius Technologies had been running a leading location based ad network in Japan called AdLocal since 2006 until the company was acquired by Yahoo! Japan in 2010. He is also CEO of Georepublic Japan, a company providing GIS-development services using open source software. In addition to his daily job, he is also a chief organizer of Geomedia Summit, one of biggest free conferences for Geoweb services in Japan for three years.

Harada joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) in 1998. After experiencing consulting of internet systems for corporate clients, he was engaged with a broad range of services in portal and content business, including content planning and sales of a movie distribution site, “BROBA”, as well as launching music and movie distribution site on the portal, “goo”. He then joined NTT DOCOMO, Inc. and was in charge of portal strategy. He has made remarkable accomplishments at DOCOMO especially in the field of mobile, search and CGM. He has led the portal team to implement search and CGM to “i-mode”.

He joined mixi, Inc. in January, 2008 and have led the company to develop and advance services such as “mixi for mobile”, “mixi New Year’s Greeting Card”, “mixi apps” and the soundness of mixi. He obtained his current title as COO in June, 2009.

Harada is a graduate of Tokyo Institute of Technology Graduate School of Innovation Management, Management of Technology.

Toshiaki Honda is the Mayor of Tono City, Iwate Prefecture. Born in 1947 in Tono City. After working for Iwate Prefecture municipal government as a government official, Honda was first elected as the Mayor of Tono City in 2002. In 2005, upon integration of cities, he became the first mayor of (New) Tono City. He is presently in his third term of office. He works on regional development that promotes confidence and pride in the history and culture of each region through various programs including the Special Zone for Regenerating Home for Japanese People (commonly called "Doburoku Tokku") and the "Ordinance for Tono Heritage Recognition". He is also keen on promoting citizens' health through programs such as the remote medical checkup at a publicly-paid maternity center "Net Yurikago", "Sukoyaka Oyakotecho (maternal and child health handbook)", and Health Enhancement Network Project in which ICT is utilized. In anticipation of an earthquake and tsunami off the coastal areas of Miyagi Prefecture, he has been promoting "Concept for Maintaining Hubs and Facilities for Logistic Support Operations at the Time of Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster" since 2007 in cooperation with municipalities of coastal cities, towns and villages in the prefecture. During the Great East Japan Earthquake, he has been committed to logistic support activities for disaster-struck areas.

Izumi Aizu is Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for InfoSocinomics, Kumon Center, Tama University in Tokyo and Deputy Director at the Institute for HyperNetwork Society in Oita, Japan.

Izumi promoted the use of PC based networking in the 1980s and the Internet in the 1990s. In 1997, he founded Asia Network Research in Malaysia, focusing on societal aspects of the Internet, global governance and digital divide issues. In April 2000, he returned to Tokyo. He represented Japanese NPO under the government’s requests at the G8 Digital Opportunity Task Force (DOT Force, 2000 - 2002).

He has been participating in the ICANN, WSIS, WGIG and IGF activities as a member of civil society. Until today, he has been trying to bring the voices of users and citizens at ICANN process: at the Membership Advisory Committee (MAC, 1999 - 2000); At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC, 2003 - 2008). In 2001, he organized to support Asian civil society members to participate in the preparatory process of World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) at Tokyo Regional preparatory meeting in 2003 and other occasions.

In 2004 he co-found Internet Governance Task Force (IGTF) of Japan to engage in the debate on Internet Governance at the WSIS Working Group on Internet Governance. In 2009, he co-founded Japan Internet Domain Name Council to promote Internationalized Country Code Top Level Domain, dot Nippon, to bring fair and open selection and governance process for ccTLD management in multi-stakeholder manner in Japan. After the devastating earthquake and Tsunami on March 11 this year, he called for the establishment of “Information Support pro bono Platform (iSPP) and became its co-director.

His recent papers include “Beyond Network Neutrality” (Telecommunication Journal of Australia, 2009) and Japan Chapter at Global Information Society Watch (APC, 2009, 2010).

Born in 1962 in Nara Prefecture. Graduated from Department of Hispanic Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Sophia University. Tazawa joined Sharp Corporation where she worked on computer technology, planning and sales promotions before leaving the company for marriage and child birth. Later she became an independent freelance writer writing computer related books and magazines as a SOHO (teleworker) while raising 3 daughters and moving 5 times due to transfers at request of her husband’s company.

In 1998, in order to implement the concept of "Net Office", that helps managing companies over the Internet, Tazawa established an organization called Y's Staff in Kitami City, Hokkaido where her husband was transferred to. In 2004, she opened Nara office as her second base, and Y's Staff was reorganized into a limited company the next year. Now, the company has about 140 teleworkers inside and outside Japan who are concurrently managing over 50 projects. Main business activities include website production, email magazine editing and marketing.

As her life's work, she commits herself to the achievement of a society where not only women but also people who live in rural areas, senior citizens and people with disabilities can work over the Internet.

Yasu Taniwaki, Division Director of ICT Strategy Policy Division, Global ICT Strategy Bureau, MIC (Ministry of Internal affairs and Communications, Japan), joined the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (currently MIC) in 1984. After serving as Economic Counselor and Telecommunications Attaché at Embassy of Japan in US (Washington D.C.) (2002 - 2005) , Director of Competition Policy Division(2005 - 2007) and Director of Telecommunications Policy Division, he has served in his capacity since July 2008.

His work includes “Emerging Broadband Market and the Relevant Policy Agenda in Japan,” Journal of Interactive Advertising (http://jiad.org), Volume 4, Number 1, Fall 2003, Michigan State University and the University of Texas at Austin. His publications in Japan include “Converging networks” Kanki Publishing Co. Ltd., September 2005, “Who Rules the Internet?,” Nikkei BP Publishing Co. Ltd, July 2007, and “Mobile Business in Japan” Impress R&D Co. Ltd., May 2008.

Som Mittal is President of NASSCOM, the premier trade body for the IT-BPO Industry in India and is playing a key role to enable NASSCOM and the industry realize its strategic vision of `Transforming Business and Transform India´. He also has an extensive experience of working with Japanese companies such as Denso, Hewlett Packard Japan, Seiko-Epson and Yamaha.

NASSCOM in its 20+ years of inception has partnered with the industry and government to define policies, build growth segments, enhance international collaboration, facilitate talent development, build global leadership, strengthen cyber security and help industry adopt best practices in all its spheres of operation. Technology enabled inclusive growth and building a vibrant domestic market are key initiatives launched by NASSCOM to enable better delivery of services, access and skill development in the country.

In its role of an institution builder, NASSCOM has fostered the development of NASSCOM Foundation, Data Security Council of India and National Institute of Smart Government (NISG).

Som assumed office of the President, NASSCOM in January 2008. He has a rich and wide ranging work experience of over 30 years in corporate India, he has been a part of the Indian IT industry for the past 20 years. Before joining NASSCOM, he was heading the Services business for Hewlett Packard in Asia Pacific and Japan. He has also served as Chairman NASSCOM in the year 2003 - 2004.

He is a member of body constituted under the Chairpersonship of Hon'ble Prime Minister to implement National E-Governance Plan (NeGP). He is also a member of National Integration Council chaired by Hon'ble Prime Minister. He has been on Chief Ministers IT Task Force in Karnataka. He is on the Governing Board of several educational institutions including IIIT at Bangalore, Delhi and Hyderabad.

He holds a B Tech from IIT, Kanpur and an MBA from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad. Additionally, he has attended executive programmes at Harvard and IMD.

Fujio Noguchi joined Sony Corporation in 1982. He has worked in the information processing technology group in an R&D capacity, the semiconductor business group as well as the design center which oversees all of the company's design activities. In 2004, he assumed responsibilities as President of AnyMusic, a Japanese digital music company. Since 2007, he has overseen Sony's digital reading business where it was headquartered in San Diego, California (USA) and the business is now operating in 19 countries worldwide. However, in April 2011, the business unit was relocated to Tokyo to oversee the hardware and content businesses in an effort to further expand the global business and work even more cohesively with Sony Group divisions.

Graduate of Aichi Prefectural Asahigaoka High School, and Ochanomizu University, where she majored in Pedagogy.

In 1977 she started working initially at Sekai Bunka Publishing Inc. Having been an editor for a women's magazine Katei Gahou, she founded Discover 21, Inc. in 1985. Since then she has been managing the business as the president, cultivating the company as the best in the country for direct transaction in book trades. In 2011 the total sales of its publication, “Nietzsche's Words”, reached million for the first time in the company's history. As a manager of the editing unit, she released various series including CD-sized books, “Millionaise”, “Kyoiku”, “Keisho”, and “Dis+cover science”. She still works as an editor, and with different points of view she continues to produce bestsellers including Kazuyo Katsuma's various publications, Kazuyoshi Komiya's “Businessman” series, and “The Age of Marriage Partner-Hunting” She has drawn attention from the industry for coming up with innovative e-book projects, such as editing the award-winning “The Impact of E-books”, and creating the company's e-book downloading website at the early phase of e-books.

Takehiko Ogi is President of Maruzen CHI Holdings Company, Limited. He joined Maruzen Co., Ltd. in January 2007 as an advisor. In April of that year, he became president. In December 2010, he was appointed president of 2Dfacto Inc., which was jointly established by Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd., NTT DOCOMO, INC., and Maruzen CHI Holdings Co., Ltd.

In 1984, he began his career with the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (at present Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) and took charge of planning of supporting Venture business and Electronics industry Policy. Then, he studied at Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy at Princeton University from 1989 to 1991 during his tenure and received Master's Degree for international affairs.

After working at MITI for 13 years, he joined Culture Convenience Club Co., Ltd. and set up a business project of TSUTAYA Online Service.

In 2004 - 2006, Ogi was at Industrial Revitalization Corporation of Japan, where he managed reconstruction of Kanebo Co., Ltd. as a Chief Executive Officer.