Introduction
International Conference on Post Pandemic Research Trends in Ecological Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities for IT aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of ecological sustainability and role of IT for improving environment, conservation and ecological sustainability. It also provides a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners, educators, ecologists, environmentalists, conservationists, botanists, zoologists, entomologists, oceanographers and IT professionals who are actively engaged in this field to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of Ecological Sustainability.
Virtual university of Pakistan (VUP) being the first leading distant learning university provides complete virtual education by using internet and free-to-air satellite television broadcasts to students irrespective of their geographic location. University provides a complete student-teacher interaction and support through the LMS (Learning Management System). Keeping in view the available stat of the art infrastructure at VUP, Department of Biology and Department of Bioinformatics & Computational Biology has come up with an idea of holding an online conference on Zoology and related disciplines. VUP has already arranged some of the successful and hassle-free online conferences with minimum or negligible expenditure. This conference will provide a useful forum for participants to exchange their ideas and research experiences on how to overcome difficulties during a pandemic in ecology and the related domains. Participants of this conference will have an opportunity for developing and renewing social as well as scientific networks that may lead to extended collaboration in research among individuals and institutions.
The objectives of the conference are as under:
- Share challenges and opportunities in the Post-COVID-19 World
- Share knowledge, experience, and research work on emerging trends in ecology, ecosystems, ecological sustainability in botany, zoology and all related fields
- Share knowledge and experience of academic and research activities performed during special circumstances of COVID-19
- Share role of IT and IT based solutions for improving the ecological sustainability