Faculty

Jean Camp is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Her research interests are based on interdisciplinary studies of policy, law, and computer science. She spent one year as a senior member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories and was also an elected Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. She has several publications, most notably her first book Risk and Trust in Internet Commerce. She received her doctorate in engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University.  More..

William W. Fisher, III is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and focuses primarily on four related topics: American Legal History; Property Law; Intellectual-Property Law; and the Law of the Internet. More..

Jane E. Fountain is Associate Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of organizations, governance, and information technology. Current research includes examination of the institutional processes that influence the enactment and use of information technologies in government, the structural and behavioral characteristics of interorganizational networks, and the political economy of gender in computing and new media. Fountain is the author of Building the Virtual State (Brookings Institution Press, forthcoming 2001) and Women in the Information Age (forthcoming 2001). Additional selected publications include: "The Economic Impact of the Internet on the Government Sector," in Alice Rivlin and Robert Litan, The E-conomy: A View from the Sectors (Brookings Institution Press, forthcoming 2001); "The Paradoxes of Customer Service in Government," Governance (forthcoming January 2001); "Constructing the Information Society: Women, Information Technology, and Design," Technology in Society 22 (2000); "The Virtual State: Toward a Theory of Federal Bureaucracy in the 21st Century," in Joseph Nye and Elaine Kamarck, democracy.com, Hollis, 1999; and "Social Capital: A Key Enabler of Innovation," Science and Public Policy 25 (1998). Fountain is a fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, director of the Women in the Information Age project at the Kennedy School of Government, and a member of the research advisory board of the Internet Policy Institute. Fountain holds a Ph.D. in political science and organizational behavior from Yale University.

Robert Jensen is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Dr. Jensen is an economist whose primary areas of research are poverty and economic development, health and education in low-income countries, and the design of social insurance programs and safety nets. He is particularly interested in the role that information technologies can play in spurring the economic developing process. Links to Professor Jensen's research papers and c.v. can be found at www.ksg.harvard.edu.

Charles Nesson is the William F. Weld Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Faculty Co-Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. More..

Jonathan Zittrain is the Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and Faculty Co-Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. His research includes digital property, privacy, and speech, and the role played by private "middlepeople" in Internet architecture. He currently teaches "Internet & Society: The Technologies and Politics of Control," and has a strong interest in creative, useful, and unobtrusive ways to deploy technology in the classroom. He holds a J.D. from Harvard Law, an M.P.A. from the J.F.K. School of Government, and a B.S. in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence from Yale. He is also a 15-year veteran sysop of CompuServe's online forums. More..