Sree Sreenivasan, the new Chief Digital Officer of New York City, is now in India for a lecture tour, speaking on social media. Mr. Sreenivasan announced his plans for a speaking tour and family vacation through Facebook when he was fired by New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in June.
Not long after this announcement, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted that Sree Sreenivasan would be the city’s new Chief.
As part of the scheduled tour, Mr. Sreenivasan, who is in Chennai, shared his experiences and concepts with J Sam Daniel Stalin of NDTV. “I found it very difficult; I had no choice. The last people I told were my children and my parents. I was using Facebook to get help, but so many people worldwide told me the benefits of seeing it,” NDTV quoted Sree Sreenivasan. Mr. Sreenivasan thinks that reducing the digital divide in India is a major challenge.
“It’s all over the world. Economic, race, aptitude, attitude, and age contribute to this. It’s important to make these services available on platforms that poor people use; I’m excited to look at Twitter Sewa addressing railway complaints in India and Google’s WiFi at railway platforms. My job is to tell people why they should use these services,” the former Columbia Professor said.
As a social media expert, he believes Indian professionals are not adequately using LinkedIn.
“It’s the most underappreciated of all in the social network. The only Indian who has understood is Satya Nadella, who bought it for 26 billion dollars,” he says.
He also suggested a method to avoid device addiction: “At home, there are no phones at the dining table, so we are forced to talk to each other. Another game I learned on Wall Street is while going for dinner; everyone puts down their phones. We order expensive food, and whoever touches the phone first pays for everything.”
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Sreenivasan, a former journalism teacher and dean at Columbia University and one of the most renowned social media experts globally, is the first chief digital officer at Columbia University. He has also been a mayoral appointee on the Commission on Public Information and Communication since 2015.
Born in Japan as the son of former ambassador TP Sreenivasan, Sree Sreenivasan holds a Bachelor’s degree in History from St. Stephen’s College in Delhi and a Master’s degree in Journalism from Columbia University.
