Anil Srivastava

Anil Srivastava began his career as Director and Head of Knowledge Engineering with the Centre for Development of Instructional Technology (CENDIT) and Satellite Instructional Television Experiment (SITE).

  • In the 1970s and 1980s a significant part of his work was with the CDS/ISIS and MINISIS bibliographic information systems with ILO, Unesco, and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). He is currently involved in bringing together an OERC (Open Education Resources for Cancer) Consortium as a joint initiative of iBharti Foundation and the International Network for Cancer Treatment and Research (INCTR).

I am looking forward to our meeting. It should be an amazing brainstorming—given the kind of people who are coming together - captured in a document, which will:

a) Inform the ‘institutionalization’ of People-Centered Internet and future activities at Stanford (& beyond)

b) Shape the global digital dividend initiatives.

Internet has reached a plateau. The 'ever widening, never ascending’ protocol that created the Internet needs to be central to our thinking about people-centered Internet and governance of a uniquely international institution. Internet is a trans-border institution which needs to driven by desire to improve the quality of life of people around the world (…for the people, of the people…) but more importantly governed (…by the people…). The inherent nature of TCP/IP has so far kept it so, but governance needs to be vigorously advocated.

On the other hand, it is very important to think alongside issues of broadband(ing), what we can do with Internet to improve the lives of people everywhere and more importantly how they can engage in their own development. Bandwidth and access should go hand-in-hand with improving lives and participatory development.

I am hoping that all the wonderful minds assembled will not think of Internet just as technology but a phenomenon that transforms lives and, therefore, think of what can be done to change the world for better.

Ericsson’s presence is important because they have been (for reasons of business) promoting eTransformation and 5G as technology to untether Internet. I hope we will be able to draw them out to talk about their work

RELATED ARTICLESExplain
People-Centered Internet
Who
Anil Srivastava
Secretariat
India
Panelists & Discussants
Ahmed Calvo
Anna Waldman-Brown
Bela Matyas
Bill Daul
Bill Fenwick
Bitange Ndemo
Bruce Green
Chris Bui
Dan Desmond
Dan Esbensen
David Nordfors
David Price
Deepak Mishra
Effie Chow
Eileen Clegg
JacQuaeline
James Killeen
Jeff Richardson
Jim Spohrer
John Mattison
John Mitchell
John Ryan
Kimberly King
Lorene Nelson
Lucienne Abrahams
Lynne Gallagher
Madis Tiik
Manu Bhardwaj
Mark Cullen
Mark Finnern
Mary Lou Jepsen
Mei Lin Fung
Melanie Walker
Mindy Hill
Monique Morrow
Nagy Hanna
Pete Forsyth
Ray Jeter
Rene Summer
Sean Flynn
Shannon McElyea
Stefan Nachuk
Steve Huter
Ted Chan
Valerie Landau
Vince Kohli
Vincent Everts
Vint Cerf
Virgílio Almeida
Co-Hosts
Collective Intelligence & Shared Wisdom
Observers
Our Sponsors
Panelists & Discussants
PCI Circle
Secretariat
Graph of this discussion
Enter the title of your article


Enter a short (max 500 characters) summation of your article
Enter the main body of your article
Lock
+Comments (0)
+Citations (1)
+About
Enter comment

Select article text to quote
welcome text

First name   Last name 

Email

Skip