Jeffrey Cole

Jeffrey Cole has been at the forefront of media and communication technology issues both in the United States and internationally for the past 25 years.

An expert in the field of technology and emerging media, Cole serves as an adviser to governments and leading companies around in the world as they craft digital strategies.  In July 2004 Dr. Cole joined the USC Annenberg School for Communication as Director of the newly formed Center for the Digital Future and as a Research Professor. The Center is a research and policy institute committed to work that has a real and beneficial effect on people’s lives, while seeking to maximize the positive potential of the mass media and our rapidly evolving communication technologies.

Cole founded and directs the World Internet Project, a long-term longitudinal look at the effects of computer and Internet technology, which is conducted in more than 25 countries.  He has worked with both the Clinton and George W. Bush White House on media and telecommunications issues.  He regularly makes presentations across the U.S. and in Europe, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.