Since 2008 Rishab heads the Collaborative Creativity Group at UNU-MERIT.
Biographical Statement
- Since 1995: (founding) international and managing editor of First Monday, a peer-reviewed journal covering Internet economics, law and technology.
- Since 1999: jury member, Global Bangemann Challenge (now Stockholm Challenge Award), a prestigious prize awarded to IT projects with socio-economic impact by the mayor of Stockholm.
- 1999: founder member of the GII Internet Commerce Brain Trust.
- 1995–1999: editor, The Indian Techonomist, analytical newsletter on Indian media and communications targeted at a global audience.
- 1996–1999: analyst/newsletter contributor, Indian communication and media markets for US-based Paul Kagan Associates
- 1994–1995: writer of a widely distributed weekly column on Internet society, Electric Dreams
- Since 1990: written widely, with over half a million words published in journals, newspapers and magazines worldwide, from PC Quest India to Wired Magazine, USA.
- 2000 onwards: initiated and led the FLOSS project and started a research focus on open source software
- 2008 onwards: heads the Collaborative Creativity Group at UNU-MERIT