Isaac (Xianghui) Mao

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Fellow at Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University
Founder at Isaac Technology Venture Corporation
Member of Jury / Category "Digital Communities" at Prix Ars Electronica

Board Director at Tor Project
Advisor at Global Voices Online
Co-founder and Director at Social Brain Foundation
Co-Founder at CNBlog.org
Founder and Major Contributor at Isaacmao.com

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Isaac (Xianghui) Mao’s Summary

Isaac Mao is a software architect, entrepreneur(also investor) and learning technology, social technology researcher. Isaac divides his time between research, social works, business and technology. He is now directing/advising some non-profit programs and several for-profit businesses in China.

Isaac has a long history leads developing both business and consumer software. He worked as a Chief Architect in Intel HomeCD project and Tangram BackSchool suite. He applied many HCI methodogies into software design process and improved the usability of software so much. He turns to Social Computing research and organized the first Social Software Forum in China.

Isaac is now in advisor board for Global Voices Online project initiated by Berkman Center of Harvard University. He co-founded CNBlog.org to evangelize grassroots publishing in China. The team then transformed in to Social Brain Foundation later on. As one of the ealiest and so called "blog father" in China, he writes a lot on his own web site as well other columms to populize blog as an enabling tool for grassroots' learning, expression and and emergent democracy.

Isaac also lead the Creative Commons China team. Creative Commons organization (co-founded and chaired by Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Stanford) is dedicated to building a body of creative works free for copying and re-use v.s. DMCA.

Isaac Mao earned BS degree in Computer Science and got MBA training program at Shanghai Jiaotong University. Isaac is also a pedagogy consultant to some local institutions. He acts as advisors for some local hi-tech firms on their business strategy. Isaac Mao was listed as the people of "2006-2016, Map of the Decade", by Institute for the Future. He is also as director of Shanghai Youth Development Foundation.

For more information, please visit his website, http://www.isaacmao.com.

Isaac (Xianghui) Mao’s Specialties:

software architect, human computer interaction, people management, project management, business envision, principle research

Isaac (Xianghui) Mao’s Experience

Fellow

Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University

(Research industry)

September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

I will focus on the information entropy of uprising global social media.
Founder

Isaac Technology Venture Corporation

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
Member of Jury / Category "Digital Communities"

Prix Ars Electronica

(Arts and Crafts industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)
Board Director

Tor Project

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Tor Project arose from a community project now wide adopted by Internet users around the world. It can help users access Internet anonymously. In some countries, it is now used as tool to bypass censorship.
Advisor

Global Voices Online

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

November 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)

http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/about/advisors
Co-founder and Director

Social Brain Foundation

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Think Tanks industry)

January 2005 — Present (4 years 11 months)

Social Brain Foundation was formed since 2003, however, the non-profit organization was registerred until 2005. Isaac Mao is the co-founder and idea maker of this steering group in China.
Co-Founder

CNBlog.org

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

October 2002 — Present (7 years 2 months)

CNBLOG.org seeks to catalyze new collaborative projects(Social Software, Emergent Democracy and Grassroots Culture, etc.), to spread its ideas and methodologies to
other individuals/organizations and encourage the practical applications of its results.
Founder and Major Contributor

Isaacmao.com

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry)

April 2002 — Present (7 years 8 months)

Isaacmao.com is my personal research, publishing and connection site, including CES Blog.