ISCC Foundation
The ISCC Foundation is an independent international nonprofit organization that promotes information technologies for the purpose of the common good.
Statutes
In particular the foundation supports and promotes the development and adoption of open standards and open source technologies as well as tools and services that enable individuals and organizations to better create, manage, discover, access, share, and monetize digital content, knowledge and ideas.
The purpose of the foundation is furthermore to collect and distribute funding for research, development, promotion and support of open, interoperable and decentralized content identifier technology for the benefit of all individuals in the creative community as well as media organizations and institutions that deal with digital content.
Activities
The ISCC Foundation will:
- Promote the foundation’s goals online and globally at events and conferences,
- Offer workshops and online-courses for information and marketing purposes,
- Develop or sponsor development of open source software,
- Provide development information, advice or access to developer resources.
Board of Directors
Kira Lemke
Treasurer ISCC Foundation, COO Craft AG
Kira is co-founder and COO of Craft AG. She is a specialist for business development and financial development for new business models and monetization strategies.
Titusz Pan
Director ISCC Foundation, CEO Craft AG
Titusz Pan is an entrepreneur and open-source developer. He is the inventor and architect of the ISCC. As co-founder and CEO of Craft AG, he has been developing media technology projects and incubations since the year 2000.
Advisory Board
Roanie Levy
Past-CEO of Access Copyright
Roanie Levy is an internationally recognized advocate for creator rights, seamlessly bridging the domains of intellectual property law, content rights management, and advanced technologies to champion the interests of creators and rightsholders.
She previously held the roles of CEO and President at Access Copyright, a Copyright Management Organization that distributed millions of dollars each year in licensing royalties to creators and publishers. She also directed Prescient Innovations, the innovation lab of Access Copyright, where she focused on the future of rights management and content monetization using blockchain, AI, and other emerging technologies. (Photo by Jennifer Rowsom)
Todd Carpenter
Executive Director NISO
Recognized for his expertise in information systems, publishing, metadata and identifier systems, he also serves as Chair of the ISO Technical Subcommittee on Identification and Description (ISO TC 46/SC 9).
Sebastian Posth
Liccium B.V
Sebastian is entrepreneur and consultant in the media industries with a focus on digital innovation. He is the founder and CEO of Liccium B.V.
Philippe Rixhon
Industry Associate, Centre for Blockchain Technologies, University College London
Philippe Rixhon is a systems and policy engineer working on value flows in contentecosystems and the holistic implementation of copyright law. As an innovation trailblazer, he assembles and leads prestigious multi-disciplinary teams to initiate, create and operate ground-breaking solutions. They are currently standardising the tokenisation of media entitlements, opening the rights data framework, and developing a rights data exchange. (Photo: Private)
Frank Schulleri
Content.Agent – The Marketplace for Content License Trading
Since 2017, Frank has kept true to his professional motto: ‘Boosting Creative Industries with a passion for tech, quality and people’. He persistently strives to utilize forward-thinking technologies to create innovative, high-quality solutions that put people’s needs first.
As CEO of Content.Agent, Frank currently concentrates on preparing the audiovisual industry for the future of content trading. His mission: providing the right tools for effective data management, transparent rights-handling and efficient license trading.
Lambert Heller
TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology
In 2013, Lambert founded the Open Science Lab at TIB, in Hannover, Germany. The lab runs a number of national and international grant projects, focussing mostly on the development of open research infrastructures (e.g. researcher profile systems based on linked open data), and creative use cases for digital collections in libraries, archives and museums, e.g. through hackathons. (Photo: Lilli Iliev (WMDE) / CC BY-SA)
Giacomo D'Angelo
CEO at StreetLib,com
Giacomo D’Angelo serves as the CEO of StreetLib.com, a global publishing platform that enables publishers to distribute ebooks and audiobooks across more than 50 retailers.
He spearheads the company’s strategy and international expansion, blending a passion for digital technology with a belief in books and stories as essential tools for enhancing human potential.