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LARA SRIVASTAVA, B.A. (HONORS), M.A., LL.B., M Sc.
KurzweilAI.net reported
that the UN was predicting an "internet of things". The site went on to
say
Changes brought about by the Internet will be dwarfed by those prompted
by the networking of everyday objects, says a report by a UN body.
The study looks at how the use of electronic tags and sensors could
create an "internet of things". The report, entitled
The Internet of Things, by the International
Telecommunications
Union was released at the
UN's World Summit on the Information
Society in Tunis.
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), sensors, robotics and
nanotechnology will make processing power increasingly available in
smaller and smaller packages so that networked computing dissolves into
the fabric of things around us.
The lead author
for this report was Lara Srivastava.
Lara Srivastava, B.A. (Honors), M.A., LL.B., M Sc. is
ITU New Initiatives
Programme Director with the
Strategy and
Policy Unit (SPU) of the
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in
Geneva
(Switzerland).
Lara has over 10 years of experience in the telecommunication
industry.
She is currently responsible for monitoring and analyzing trends in
information and
communication technology, policy, and market structure, with a particular
focus
on mobile and wireless communications. She organizes and advises on
workshops and symposia
programmes, covering topics of interest to policymakers, regulators and
industry. In this context, she
acts as Programme Director for
ITU's New Initiatives Programme, and contributes to
programme development for the global ITU TELECOM Forum.
She also writes and manages publications produced by the ITU's
Strategy and Policy Unit. These
include
The Internet of Things (2005),
The Portable
Internet
(2004),
Licensing of 3G Mobile
(2001),
Shaping the Future Mobile Information Society (2004) and
Ubiquitous Network Societies
(2005). She has published several articles in refereed journals such as
INFO and
Telecommunications
Policy, and in books such as the recent
Asia Unplugged (2005, Sage
Publications) and
Thumb Culture
(2005, Bielefeld), on topics ranging from the mobile Internet
and market
regulation to the growing nexus
between technology and society. She has been invited as guest lecturer
and speaker by a number of
academic institutions and international conferences.
Before joining ITU some six years ago, Lara worked for the
Legal Department of the
Canadian
Radio-Television and Telecommunication Commission (CRTC), the
Technical University of Delft
(Netherlands) as a Research Fellow in telecommunication regulatory
reform, and for the UK-based
telecommunication consultancy
Analysys as part of its management
consultant team. She has also had the
opportunity to work for an Internet start-up company,
App-Tap, as
strategic manager.
She holds a B.A. Honors degree and Master of
Arts in French Literature
from Queen's University (Canada) and a French Studies Diploma from the
Université de Strasbourg
(France). She received a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from the University
of Ottawa (Canada) and an
Advanced Post-Graduate Diploma in International Law and
Telecommunications from the
Université de Panthéon-Assas Paris II (France). In 1996,
she was also
selected as one of the Canadian
student representatives for the
International Space University (ISU) in
Vienna, Austria. She completed a
Master of Science (M.Sc) in Technology Policy at the Science Policy
Research Unit (SPRU) of the
University of Sussex (UK) for which she was granted the Canadian Science
Policy Scholarship. She is a qualified barrister and solicitor, and a
member of the
Law Society of Upper Canada.
In her free time, Lara enjoys acting (film, theatre), singing (jazz,
musicals), sailing and hiking.
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