CDT Sponsors
CDT is run by the Berkeley China Internet Project (BCIP) out of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
We are also supported by and cooperate closely with UC Berkeley’s School of Information Management and Systems, Institute of East Asian Studies, Boalt School of Law, and Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) at the College of Engineering. Special thanks to Jack and Dorothy Edelman, John D. and Catherine MacArthur Foundation, Open Society Institute, National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD) for the generous support.
CDT Advisory Board
An advisory board will oversee the work of BCIP and CDT.
Orville Schell is author of 14 books — nine about China, including Virtual Tibet, Mandate of Heaven, and Discos and Democracy — Schell graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University in Far Eastern History, was an exchange student at National Taiwan University, and did his M.A. and Ph.D work at the University of California, Berkeley, in Chinese History. He is a long time contributor to The New Yorker, as well as to such magazines and periodicals as The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Granta, Newsweek, The China Quarterly, Vanity Fair, and The New York Review of Books. Dean Schell also serves on the boards of Human Rights Watch and is a member of the Pacific Council and the Council on Foreign Relations.
John Battelle is a Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley. Battelle is one of the co-founders of Wired and the Founder and former CEO of Standard Media International (”The Standard”), publisher of The Industry Standard and TheStandard.com. He was recently named a “Global Leader for Tomorrow” by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He was also a lecturer at the Weblog class that created the Berkeley Intellectual Property Weblog.
Paul Grabowicz is Assistant Dean and an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley. A journalist for 27 years, Professor Grabowicz is the Director of the New Media Program at the Graduate School of Journalism, a columnist for the Online Journalism Review, co-author of California Inc., and a contributor to E-Media Tidbits: A Group Weblog. He teaches classes in multimedia and new media publishing and computer assisted reporting. He has been a lecturer at the Weblog class that created the Berkeley Intellectual Property Weblog.
AnnaLee Saxenian is Dean of the School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS) and Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the UC Berkeley. Saxenian is an internationally recognized expert on regional economic development and information technology; and she has published extensively on the social and economic organization of production in technology regions like Silicon Valley. Her current research explores how immigrant engineers and scientists are transferring technology entrepreneurship to regions in Asia.
Her publications include Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 (Harvard University Press, 1994), Silicon Valley’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs (Public Policy Institute of California, 1999), and Local and Global Networks of Immigrant Professionals in Silicon Valley (Public Policy Institute of California, 2002.) Saxenian holds a Doctorate in Political Science from MIT, a Master’s in Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley, and a BA in Economics from Williams College in Massachusetts.
Howard Rheingold is an internationally syndicated author of the weekly Tomorrow column, author of best-sellers Smart Mobs, Virtual Reality and The Virtual Community, editor of best-seller The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog.
Rheingold was the founding Executive Editor of HotWired, the pioneering online publication launched on the World Wide Web by Wired magazine. He was the founder of Electric Minds, named by Time Magazine one of the ten best websites of 1996. He’s a participant-observer in the design of new technologies, a pioneer, critic and forecaster of technology’s impacts, and a speaker who involves his audience in an adventure in group futurism.
Steven Weber is Director of the Institute of International Studies.
Weber, a specialist in International Relations, is Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley, an associate with the International Computer Science Institute, and affiliated faculty of the Energy and Resources Group. His areas of special interest include international and national security; the impact of technology on national systems of innovation, defense, and deterrence; and the political economy of knowledge-intensive industries particularly software and pharmaceuticals. He is a member of the Global Business Network in Emeryville, California, and actively consults with government agencies, private multinational firms, and international non-governmental issues on foreign policy issues, risk analysis, strategy, and forecasting. His newest book, The Success of Open Source, was published in April 2004 by Harvard University Press.
S. Shankar Sastry is Director of Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS).
S. Shankar Sastry first came to UC Berkeley as a graduate student in Electric Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) in the late 1970s. Since then he’s become one of the College of Engineering’s most distinguished professors and researchers. Awarded the Nippon Electronics Corporation Distinguished Professorship in the College of Engineering and the Walter A. Haas School of Business, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 “for pioneering contributions to the design of hybrid and embedded systems” and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004. In addition, he’s served as director of the Information Technology Office of DARPA, director of the Electronics Research Laboratory at Berkeley, and most recently chair of the very department where he earned his Ph.D.
