Caribbean Oil Capital President Irfaan Ali seeks new mandate for Oil Dor...

President of Guyana Dr Irfaan Mohamed Ali seeks a new term. What's in stor for the The Caribbean Oil Capital and the world leadership ahead. See details in this post.  

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Life Altering Journey Through India

 Early 2025 found me in India for the 18th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, the legendary once-in-a lifetime Maha Kumbh Mela and and extended visit through ancestral districts of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar  and beyond into the ehart of India and our ancient heritage ...find out more at www.krisrampersad,com

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Beyond the Hype Hyperbole and Hysteria of AI Big Data and New Tech

 

Missed me since the Data Crash? Like any under-resourced curious creative scientist, I self-experimented.To see how they meshed with experiences across the SDG spectrum I injected myself with hundreds of courses and learnings across the soft and hard skills in fields of Data Science - AI, Big Data, Cloud Computing, CyberSecurity, Internet of Things, Digital Sustainability, UX Design, Project Management, Interpersonal and Leadership, etc etc and this happened: 

 Introducing AuthenThink AI AnalyEthics Leadership Retooling AcademySee Post Future AI Sci Tech Learnings Passport to a Brave New Planet How To Morph Into A CEIBA CYBORG!  Make contact to discuss customised retooling!

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Confronting Colonial Mindset Happy Global Girls In ICT Day With BBC Gone Who Goin Tek Over Town

With escalating evidence of the persistent colonial mindset inhibiting the development agenda introducing a new Demokrissy Series to confront the Colonial Mindset, media bias and bias in tech Happy International Girls In ICT Day. clink image for vide. See details  in this link .

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Silver Fox who dared Lions Prime Minister Basdeo Panday passes on

 He would be known as the Silver Fox who dared Lions. Former Prime Minister Basdeo Panday, the boy from the impoverished canefields of South Trinidad who has indelibly altered the political landscape of the Commonwealth and the Caribbean as Trinidad and Tobago’s fifth Prime Minister died at age 90 on New Years Day, 2024.

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Regional Implications of the Guyana-Venezuela controversy on Latin America and the Caribbean

The Border Dispute between Guyana and Venezuela heats up as the date for a Venezuelan Referendum approaches while Guyana has taken the issue of Venezuela's threat to occupy some two thirds of its territory to the International Court of Justice. What are the implications of this for the Region and why we should be glued?

Demokrissy takes a close look to the socio-cultural, historical and geopolitical factors in this dispute. Go to the link below for details. 

Brokering the Border Wars – LAC limbo on barbed lines of demarcation as Venezuela-Guyana dispute heightens
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Surviving AI Digital Deletion Cultural Restoration Reengineering Education ...

Surviving AI Digital Deletion and Cultural Restoration Reengineering Culture Education & Media  for the Digital Age with Dr Kris Rampersad. More at www.krisrampersad.com.  Subscribe youtube https://youtu.be/p9xZ4SSfD5g

 

Towards new Caribbean Culture of Democracy

 Can Guyana lead the region on political reform too following Commission enquiry report on election fraud? Read more

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Dear Lizzie, RIP Letters To Lizzie Colonial Legacy

 

Stories from inside Commonwealth processes, as a witness to the tumultuous currents swirling at its centre threatening to burst its banks in the processes of empowering and tooling Commonwealth civil society to utilise the access afforded by new media to augment their voices while participating and provoking the Commonwealth’s interrogation of itself over the past two decades Letters to Lizzie morphs from lilbits Tweets in 120 characters to the MultiMedia MicroEpic.

From her birth with television and electronic media to the age of new media, the Legacy of Queen Elizabeth reaches beyond the colonial legacy of her ancestry,

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Race for Respect in the Era of Augmented Reality on Social Media New 'R's' in literacy Happy World Literacy Day

 An advertisement by a bank sparks a letter to an editor which is published in a newspaper, released on social media and stirs and sparks a virtual racial war.

The fingers point now to a cycle of blame: Who's at fault?

Is it that the advertising agency and the bank were insensitive to the deeply entrenched racism and other historical hurts festering in the society? Was the media fuelling racism to sell a few to a gullible public who is sure to jump at the ongoing race-baiting, consciously or subconsciously perpetrated on a society that cannot rise out of the scars of the past? Each may have very sound and solid justifications on its actions, but the reality is that media, culture and gender sensitive literacy have moved to the forefront of the challenge for social literacy, virtually replacing the traditional three R's with a new one - Respect!

And we are way past the time to begin to unravel and rethread the flaying and flawed social fabric.

It points to the challenge for social, cultural, gneder sensitive literacy and re-educating the education setor ...

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Biden Harris From Orange to MultiColoured American - Silver Lining or Global Rainbow US election post mortem

The colour question surfaces as one of the most pernicious issues in the 2020 US Elections. 

What novelties emerge from the changing of the guards in the US Elections?

Demokrissy begins introspection and projections on the challenges ahead and implications for multiculturalism gender under President and Vice President-elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, respectively  implications of diasporic reach India, Africa, Americas, Caribbean, Europe ... insights from LiTTributes to the Americas and beyond.

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Another step beyond the Glass Ceiling.. 

Education Creative Economy Culture & MASKS OF SATIRE RIP SIR KEN ROBINSON

A decade and a half ago I shared a platform with Sir Ken Robinson in the embryonic movement to advance the Creative sector through revisioning accounting, education, outreach, media and the creative arts. The imperatives for Novel approaches to #Education with the novel challenges of the #NovelCoronaVirus in the #PostPandemicPlanet evokes the reflections on this piece inspired by the foundational work we began in propelling the #creativeeconomy and the pitfalls therein for our developing economies at the #WorldSummit on #Arts and #Culture and the aftermath of #SirKenRobinson on his passing as we project on how we may move beyond the kiff kaff laughter towards effective and meaningful creative #development that would envelop #socialinclusion and #cohesion more presentations #webinars #seminars #workshops on request at the #Academy and #MultimediaGalleriesat the Glocalknowledgepot Sir Ken Robinson WorldWeWantPeople

Satire on mis/representations of the culture sector, creative economy & sustainable development in a small island state. Tribute to Sir Ken Robinson by Dr Kris.

The challenges facing education, the arts, culture and media for survi
val into the post pandemic planet inspires this recollection on the encounter and reencounter with education luminary Sir Ken Robinson.
The presentation on the prospects for the creative economy, revisioning accounting and representation still holds as we address the challenges of the post pandemic planet. For more visit https://krisrampersad.com/ah-drinking-babash-in-dis-fo-rum-creative-masks-of-satire/

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The Politics of Disempowerment & the Inheritance from Independent Colonials

The Challenge of countries previously ruled despotically, as colonies, and now navigating through new-found independent status with no long-established institutions or freedoms, they allowed for information to easily be manipulated or commandeered by power groups. Demokrissy reflects on 58 years of Independence from Colonial Rule and the realities confronting developing societies in not just post colonial period but now projecting to the post pandemic planet. Read more at the Academy at GloCal Knowledge Pot linked here

Demokrissy remains the go to consultative platform on issues affecting the developing world, small island states and the underprivilenged, marginalised, disenfranchised and dispossessed. For more analyses, and to request webinars, seminars, workshops, courses, analyses and perspectives See parent site at the GloCaL Knowledge Pot linked here www.krisrampersad.com

Suffrage Literarily

Suffrage Literarily from
 Encyclopedia Literaria 

Ever wondered what Suffrage means in a banana or other fructoid republic? Reinterpretation traditional into contemporary phenomenon see Suffrage Literarily in Encyclopedia Literaria at the GloCaLKnowledgePot read more in link
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The 2020 Pandemic Polls and the challenges facing the winner

Masks and shields accompanined stained ink fingers in the 2020 Pandemic Polls to acccomodate voting in a time of Novel Corona Virus COVID-19.

What does the 2020 Pandemic Polls hold in store? This would unfurl in the next few hours. The reportedly heavy voter turn out already suggests how pivotal the population views these polls as some 125 candidates view for 41 seats in the Parliament's House of Representatitives. But the challenges remain for whoever take the helm henceforth into the Post Pandemic Planet.
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