Discourse on creativity touches sensitive topics

The three-day 'Youth Empowerment Summit', organised in Hyderabad by the Sindh Sports and Youth Affairs Department, concluded on Sunday, with participants in the technical sessions shedding light on creativity, artificial intelligence and digital media. The Secretary Sports and Youth Affairs Abdul Aleem Lashari closed the event by distributing shields and certificates.

Speaking in the session Creativity for Peace' journalist Shahzeb Jillani lamented that the people in Pakistan's region have developed an indifference to the topics of violence, hatred and war.

Intellectual and poet Yousuf Bashir Qureshi said that society instills fear in people through authority figures like God, elders, teachers, and other powerful individuals which affects creativity.

Civil society activist and intellectual Jami Chandio argued, "Democracy isn't just elections or casting the votes. It is about an environment where freedom of expression, intellectual freedom and human rights are protected."

Famous singer Saif Samejo observed that a serious lack of leadership existed in the society alongside institutional weaknesses.

Sindhi language expert, engineer and lexicographer Amar Fayaz Buriro, who was among the panelists in the session dubbed 'Artificial Intelligence: A Whole New World', drew attention towards the merits and demerits of AI. He believed that a vast majority of the global population has begun to become affected by the AI which will entail redundancy for many.

Noushad Ranani, Muhammad Farrukh Khan and Mehboob Shar also expressed their views.

The last session was titled Digital Media for Economic Empowerment.