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

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

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

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

Todd Carpenter

Executive Director NISO

Since 2006, Todd Carpenter has served as Executive Director of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), a US-based non-profit association that develops and maintains standards for the creation, persistent management, and effective interchange of information. In this role, he works with organizations across the publishing, library and software-provider communities, building coalitions to improve efficiency in systems to deliver content to users globally.

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

Sebastian Posth

Liccium B.V

Philippe Rixhon

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

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

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

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.