HYDERABAD:A two-day training workshop on ‘Science Communication and Diplomacy in Agriculture’ in collaboration with OIC-COMSTEC hosted by the Sindh Agriculture University (SAU) Tondojam began on Monday.
Speaking at the opening ceremony experts and researchers said that it is very important to convey science simply and attractively
because the role of science has become very important in the present era, and we cannot deviate from the fact that the progress of science and research has brought great changes in life in the last century.
The SAU vice-chancellor Dr. Fateh Mari expressed that the present time is the era of artificial intelligence, inventions and competition of ideas, and our life is incomplete without science. He emphasized that youth should expand scientific activities so that they could walk side by side with the world.
He expressed the hope that this workshop will help the participants to convert complex ideas into simple forms.
On this occasion, COMSTEC Coordinator General Dr. Muhammad Iqb
al Chaudhry said that during the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic, it was feared that this virus could kill more than 900 million people, but medical progress and research proved this claim wrong. He emphasized that attention should be given to scientific communication for the proper dissemination of scientific inventions and research. The COMSTEC was playing an important role in the fields of medicine, science and education, he added.
Dr. Syed Javed Khursheed, Consultant of Science Communication and Diplomacy of COMSTEC, while giving an introductory speech, highlighted the objectives of the workshop. On this occasion, Director University Advancement and Financial Assistance Dr. Muhammad Ismail Kambhar welcomed the participants and gave an overview of the workshop and details of the programme.
More than 100 students, faculty members, researchers and scientists were participating in the event. The two-day conference will have more than six technical sessions followed by a hands-on activity workshop.