Disaster, Disruption, Digitisation, Demand and Diversity | UPSC

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• Delivering the virtual Lockdown Lecture organized by Nehru Science Centre, Ministry of Culture, Shri S. Ramadorai has emphasized the need for innovation in every field.

DISRUPTION:

• Pandemics, natural calamities and disasters caused due to human interventions, from Plague that hit the world in 1885 to SARS.
• ‘Pandemics’ are going to be a part of our lives.
• Human beings are exhibiting support and community initiative  during pandemics which was remarkable.
• ‘It is such attitude of the citizens that needs to be focused upon’,.

DIGITIZATION

• Power of digitisation and digital technology is very crucial in overcoming such disruptions.

• “When it comes to public health initiatives by the government, a new paradigm for infrastructure, geographical distribution of providers, and care giving are beginning to take shape.

BESIDES OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE, WE NEED TO FOCUS ON:

• Emergence of new opportunities, diversification,
• Medical devices,
• Automation in primary health centres,

• Digitisation can be a big boost to Fine arts and Culture too.

DIVERSITY:

•  Pandemic has erased the boundaries within humanity.
• “The rich v/s poor divide has almost disappeared from the pandemic point of view.
• COVID19 can affect anyone, anywhere, anytime.

• Hence diversity has to be accepted as a way of life and as a medium”, .
• We need to work towards a borderless world.
• Our ecosystem has to be rethought and reengineered connecting human and nature.