Achieving Resilience through Digitalization, Sustainability and Sectoral Transformation
We are in the digital era of the 21st century and there is a pressing need to adopt digital technology for a more inclusive and resilient society. The recent COVID -19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of digitalization worldwide in which remote work is gaining in popularity. Digital transformation and modernization will enhance the sectoral transformation by further integrating delivery, processes and systems across different areas. Various global challenges such as increasing population, climate change, food security, enhancing health & social security benefits, employment crises due to changing markets and the economic slowdown have all to be faced in the future. As a developing country recovering from an economic crisis, we have to overcome these challenges and achieve resilience in this global competition to achieve developed country status.
In this context, it is necessary that academia and the research community of the country to get together to analyze suitable plans and strategies for digitalization and sectoral transformation and facilitate sustainability to achieve sustainable economic growth, to revive the country’s economy and to achieve resilience. The International Research Conference of the year 2023, aims to provide a suitable platform to all the academia, researchers and students in various scientific and professional fields based in Sri Lanka as well as overseas to showcase their innovative ideas and research to achieve the development of our nation.