Basic information about our mission, staff, advisory board and privacy, reprint and citation policies.

The Pew Internet & American Life Project is an initiative of the Pew Research Center, which sets policy and research goals for the Pew Internet Project. The Advisory Board is an informal body that meets occasionally with the Pew Internet staff to share ideas about developments in technology, in the policy world, and in scholarly research. The Advisory Board is a non-voting body that does not set policy for the Pew Internet Project or determine the direction of the Pew Internet Project's research.

Advisory Board Members

Andrew Kohut, Chair
Director of the Pew Research Center for People and the Press and founder of the Princeton Survey Research Associates.
http://www.people-press.org/

Marjory Blumenthal
Associate Provost responsible for Academic Affairs at Georgetown University, formerly Executive Director of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council.
Bio page

Lincoln Caplan
Managing Partner, SeaChange Capital Partners and Visiting Fellow, Whitney Humanities Center of Yale University.
Organization's page

Esther Dyson
Chairman of EDventure Holdings, editor of Release 1.0, and columnist for the New York Times syndicate.
http://www.release1-0.com/

Jeffrey Eisenach
Chairman, Criterion Economics.
http://www.criterioneconomics.com/main.php

Larry Irving
President, Irving Information Group.
Bio page

Michael Nelson
Visiting Professor, Georgetown University, Communication, Culture & Technology program.
Georgetown page

Adam Clayton Powell III
Vice Provost for Globalization at USC.
Bio page

Eileen Rudden
Expert in the enterprise software industry for the past 25 years, and is currently a board member of several firms. She is a former Vice President and General Manager at Avaya.
http://www.avaya.com/gcm/master-usa/en-us/home/index.htm

Clay Shirky
Consultant, teacher, writer on the social and economic effects of the internet. Adjunct Professor at New York University.
Writings about the internet

David Silver
Assistant Professor, University of San Francisco, Department of Media Studies.
Bio page

Linda Stone
Writer, lecturer, consultant on technology issues.
Linda Stone

Bill Tancer
General Manager, Global Research at Hitwise.
Blog

Jonathan Zittrain
Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University. Co-Founder, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.
Bio page