MIT World Speakers

Craig Newmark

In 1995, Craig Newmark began his career in community organizing by starting "craigslist" as a list service to share community information on upcoming events in San Francisco with his close circle of friends.

Craigslist has evolved to a community service website with more than 50 million community members located in more than 576 cities in 50 different countries who are generating over 15 billion page views per month, sharing common values and information.

Newmark earned a B.S. in Computer Science from Case Western Reserve University. He is a vocal advocate of keeping the Internet free. He has donated $10,000 to a non-profit group, NewAssignment.Net, which plans to combine the work of amateurs and professionals to produce investigative stories on the Internet.