William Drake

Dr. William J. Drake is the President of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, a twenty four year old public interest organization with over a thousand members in two dozen countries.  He is also a Senior Associate at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development in Geneva, Switzerland, where he resides.  In addition, he is the research consultant to the Swiss government’s initiative on ICT4Peace; a member of the United Nations Working Group on Internet Governance; a Research Associate of the Institute for Tele-Information at Columbia University, New York City; co-editor of a new MIT Press book series, The Information Revolution and Global Politics; a member of the Social Science Research Council’s Research Network on IT Governance and Civil Society; and a member of the editorial boards of the journals Telecommunications Policy and Info. 

Previously, William Drake has been a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland, College Park; a Senior Associate and the founding Director of the Project on the Information Revolution and World Politics at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC; the founding Associate Director of the Communication, Culture and Technology Program, Georgetown University, Washington DC; an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of California, San Diego; and an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies and at Georgetown University’s School of Business, Washington DC.   In addition, he has been an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow; a Ford Foundation Fellow and a MacArthur Foundation Fellow at the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge MA; and an Albert Gallatin Fellow at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva.  He received his M.A., M.Phil, and Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University, New York City.

William Drake’s primary research interests are the global governance of information and communication technology, and the impact of the information revolution on world politics.  Among his publications are:  Governing Global Electronic Networks: International Perspectives on Policy and Power (edited with Ernest J. Wilson, the MIT Press, forthcoming); From the Global Digital Divide to the Global Digital Opportunity: Proposals Submitted to the G-8 Kyushu-Okinawa Summit 2000---Report of the World Economic Forum Task Force on the Global Digital Divide (World Economic Forum, 2000); Toward Sustainable Competition in Global Telecommunications: From Principle to Practice (Aspen Institute, 1999); and the edited volumes, Telecommunications in the Information Age (United States Information Agency, 1998), and The New Information Infrastructure: Strategies for US Policy (Twentieth Century Fund, 1995).