Jimmy Wales – Founder of Wikipedia, Internet Entrepreneur
Topic: What’s Next in Tech?: Thrive in a “Wiki” Future
Called a “Web Celeb” by Forbes magazine, Jimmy Wales is the founder of Wikipedia, a free Internet encyclopedia, the Wikimedia Foundation, the news platform WikiTribune, and Wikia, a privately-owned free web-hosting service. TIME magazine named Wales one of its “100 Most Influential People” in 2006. He is a Fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and serves on the board of directors of Socialtext and for the non-profit Creative Commons.
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