About 

Global Associates

Anil Srivastava

Much of Anil Srivastava’s work has been at the intersection of innovation, knowledge economy, and societal applications of technology. This has led to a deep interest in emerging technologies and social structures often leading to pioneering work in many fields much ahead of its time. Often his work has been concerned with the evolution of technology and how it can be appropriated for socio-economic development.

Currently with Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology of the US National Cancer Institute, he is responsible for international cooperation for cancer research leveraging cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) together with other open source, standard based and interoperable framework and tools. Quite independent of his work with NCI he is leading the effort to set up Open Health Systems Laboratory (OHSL) at Johns Hopkins Montgomery County Campus in Rockville.

His continuing collaboration with Sam Pitroda, chairman of India's National Innovation Council and (former chair of National Knowledge Commission) has been mostly in the areas of advanced networks for knowledge economy including research and education networking (REN), capacity building for higher education, libraries, health information technology and national health information network.

Given his strong belief in education as public good, Anil has over the years collaborated with William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in establishing several open education resources initiatives and developing partnerships, This has been further motivated by his work and interest in open source software since early 70s with International Development Research Center (IDRC), UNESCO and ILO on ISIS family of bibliographic information systems.

Anil Srivastava worked for many years with Apple beginning with his role as Director of Future Systems at Apple’s independent marketing company for South Asia (1986-88), later as coordinator for its Emerging Markets Task Force for India in 1990s and eventually as Visiting Scholar for Educational Object Economy with Apple’s Advanced Technology Group.

At California State University, Long Beach Anil Srivastava is a Visiting Scholar at the College of Liberal Arts and is part of the leadership team for CSU India Initiative.