Dr. Payal Arora, an Associate Professor in the Department of Media & Communication, was invited to be a Keynote Speaker on “Digital media, digital transition & the Internet of Things” at the Rhodes Forum 2015: Dialogue of Civilizations.
The forum took place from October 8 to October 12 in Rhodes, Greece. Vectors of discussion that dr. Payal Arora and her fellow keynote speakers touched upon were: The Globalized Digitalized World Community, The New Media Market Tendencies and Perspectives , Media in Flux: The BRICS an Post-American Way, The New Digital Knowledge Society? and Opportunities and Risks in Internet of Things.
As an INGO, The World Public Forum -"Dialogue of Civilizations" focuses on humanity's future. "It is a Forum where important global issues are addressed through international and cross-cultural dialogue. The Forum deals particularly with major global fault lines: that is, with situations which are, or are likely to become, sources of major political, economic and cultural conflicts in our world."