Speakers stress need for technology to mainstream the marginalized.

Byline: Ihsan Ali Abro

JAMSHORO -- Speakers were in opinion consensus in their respective keynote speeches and technical presentations when they asserted that modern-day digital technology development should be guided by a holistic approach significantly reducing, if not ciphering harm to men and environment and covering the marginalized. This they said in an 'International Consultative Forum on Information and Communication Technology for Development: Mainstreaming the Marginalized' organized by Area Study Centre Fareast and Southeast Asia, University of Sindh, Jamshoro at Senate hall of the Vice Chancellor's Secretariat. SU Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Fateh Muhammad Burfat in his presidential address said that technology could be both, a boon or a bane, depending how men utilized it.

'I am of the opinion that life in today's fast-paced digital era would not even be conceivable; yet it should not mean we develop those innovations in total disregard to climatic conditions and how those developments impacted mankind, especially those who lived on socio-economic peripheries and below the poverty line', Dr. Burfat observed.

He congratulated Director FESEA Prof. Dr. Mukesh Kumar Khatwani and the Centre team upon successfully organizing the international forum on a highly significant theme. Keynote speaker world-famed author of 15 books-Professor from Royal Holloway University London, United Kingdom Dr. Tim Unwin in his scholarly presentation on 'Digital Technology and Climate Change' said that in the essential big picture in terms of digital development; environment, climate and especially world marginalized communities were broadly ignored.

'Earlier, 8 Millennium...