The pandemic push: can COVID-19 reinvent conferences to models rooted in sustainability, equitability and inclusion?

The COVID-19 pandemic necessitates a change in conference formats for 2020. This shift offers a unique opportunity to address long-standing inequities in access and issues of sustainability associated with traditional conference formats, through testing online platforms. However, moving online is no...

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Autores principales: Niner, Holly J., Johri, Shaili, Meyer, Judith, Wassermann, Sophia N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Singapore 2020
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Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7446603/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34765878
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42532-020-00059-y
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description The COVID-19 pandemic necessitates a change in conference formats for 2020. This shift offers a unique opportunity to address long-standing inequities in access and issues of sustainability associated with traditional conference formats, through testing online platforms. However, moving online is not a panacea for all of these concerns, particularly those arising from uneven distribution of access to the Internet and other technology. With conferences and events being forced to move online, this is a critical juncture to examine how online formats can be used to best effect and to reduce the inequities of in-person meetings. In this article, we highlight that a thoughtful and equitable move to online formats could vastly strengthen the global socio-ecological research community and foster cohesive and effective collaborations, with ecology and society being the ultimate beneficiaries.
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spelling pubmed-74466032020-08-26 The pandemic push: can COVID-19 reinvent conferences to models rooted in sustainability, equitability and inclusion? Niner, Holly J. Johri, Shaili Meyer, Judith Wassermann, Sophia N. Socioecol Pract Res Communication The COVID-19 pandemic necessitates a change in conference formats for 2020. This shift offers a unique opportunity to address long-standing inequities in access and issues of sustainability associated with traditional conference formats, through testing online platforms. However, moving online is not a panacea for all of these concerns, particularly those arising from uneven distribution of access to the Internet and other technology. With conferences and events being forced to move online, this is a critical juncture to examine how online formats can be used to best effect and to reduce the inequities of in-person meetings. In this article, we highlight that a thoughtful and equitable move to online formats could vastly strengthen the global socio-ecological research community and foster cohesive and effective collaborations, with ecology and society being the ultimate beneficiaries. Springer Singapore 2020-08-25 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7446603/ /pubmed/34765878 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42532-020-00059-y Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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title_short The pandemic push: can COVID-19 reinvent conferences to models rooted in sustainability, equitability and inclusion?
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