The Rajiv Gandhi University’s (RGU) department of geography in Arunachal Pradesh on Thursday conducted an international webinar on the topic ‘Global Health Crisis and Socio-Economic Impact of COVID-19: A Geographical Perspective’.
In all 522 participants, including students, researchers, academicians, administrators and scientists from all over India and those from Africa and South Korea participated in the webinar.
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The webinar which aimed at assessing the global impact of COVID-19 on societies, economies and healthcare saw Dr Pragya Tiwari Gupta, associate professor of Ethiopian Civil Services University, Ethiopia address the problems of migrants and their contribution in the socio-economic development of urban areas.
Prof V C Jha, former vice-chancellor of T M Bhagalpur University spoke on how digital technology is playing an important role in tracking, detecting and mapping Covid-19.
Prof R B Singh, former head of department (Geography), University of Delhi dwelt at length on the spread of viral diseases like Ebola, SARs and COVID-19 in the geographical perspective whereas Prof K N Singh, vice-chancellor, Uttar Pradesh Rajarshi Open University, Prayagraj focused on the spatial analysis of COVID-19.
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Singh also spoke of the regional approach that could be adopted for spatial resource evaluation and how the agriculture potential can be improved by integrated resource management.
RGU vice-chancellor Prof Saket Kushwaha emphasized on how geographical boundaries are shrinking and the need to discuss the problems in different dimensions.
RGU’s registrar in-charge Prof Tomo Riba, pro vice-chancellor Prof Amitava Mitra, Prof Kiran Kumari and associate professor Dr T R Sora also spoke.
Meanwhile, a two-day webinar on ‘Recent Trends in Artificial Intelligence’ also got underway at the University on Thursday.
The webinar is being organized by the RGU’s department of electronic & communication and computer science & engineering.