Jane Patterson serves on the US Advisory Council on the National Information Infrastructure (Presidential Appointment), where she is also one of six mega project co-chairs.

Her area is the vision on the National Information Infrastructure and the principles for this as well as responsibility for application principles, such as electronic commerce, education, health, criminal justice and government services.

She is a strong subscriber to the practice of life-long learning and is always taking on new courses of study. Currently, she is learning Indonesian.

Jane Patterson has spoken throughout the world on the subject of the Information Highway and its applications. She has chaired the start-up planning and implementations of the largest ATM-Sonet public switched broadband network effort in the world.