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Sopari Ki Mai, Kamla Persad-Bisessar victory at the post is the stuff of legends that resonates from this twin islnd republic across the region to our interconneted diaspora. Dr Kris Rampersad's AuthenThink Intel AnalyEthics Deep Dives into this win!

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In The News: Reshaping Inclusive Development at World's Largest Diaspora Gathering

Bridging the gaps for culture-centred development world largest diaspora gathers in India with insights from Heritage Educator Dr Kris Rampersad at Pravasi Bharatiya Divas and Maha Mumbh Mela

As we face explosion of crime and as the world explodes in conflict and wars, local and international mechanisms for building intercultural inclusion and peace do not fully benefit from the strengths of diaspora connections. There is need to rethink the modes of information and communications as well as education and to reshape global mechanisms to better advance multicultural engagement of…

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Cultures Converge in Historic MahaKumbh Mela Pravasi in Prayagraj

World converges at legendary MahaKumbh Festival at World's Largest gathering Insights from Heritage Educator Dr Kris Rampersad

The locals believe that those who show up for the Maha Kumbh Mela that takes place once every 144 years are not from planning or design but by Divine will! It is a time when the planets align. ‘The entire universe comes to earth here at this time. There is nothing to stop anyone from coming. It is divine will that brings chosen ones here,” says Arun Shukla, a devotee and resident of Prayagraj…

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My Date with Narendra Modi - revisiting India in the West reshaping a New World Order

In a world in flux, watch these moves by moves by third-round Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's on the West - AuthenThink Intel AnalyEthics prelude to a closer look at this week's India-Caricom Summit and the Brazil-hosted G20 Summit.

As Donald Trump prepares for another round in office as US President, shrouded in the looming sceptre of America’s Brexit, following an election campaign that blatantly exposed the growing irrelevance of mainstream western and American media’s diminishing capabilities to grasp and interpret the evolving political and by extension social and cultural landscape – AI fact-checking tools and all, I…

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Toxic Politics Petticoat Obsession US Election Knickers A-Twist in Race To The Polls A Woman’s Place When America Sneezes

The final vote-count in the US Elections will indicate to what degree the tottering superpower’s ability to confront and dent the gender bias and stereotyping embedded in its political culture. See Video Toxic Politics Petticoat Obsession US Election Knickers A-Twist in Race to the Polls Demokrissy Insights intp Political Culture http://www.krisrampersad.com It finds potent expression in the…

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High Stakes in US Elections Leadership Matters to Emerging New World Order - When America Sneezes

The United States of America goes to the polls at this time when there are unprecedented and unpresidented (lol!) tectonic global shifts, not just in the climate, but of the global status quo itself. To much of the world looking on, it appears as if the USA, enarmoured of its own Hollywood-tinted and tainted historical place in world politics, and somewhat oblivious to this reality. And with the…

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Future AI SciTech Learnings Passport To A Brave New ImaginedNation

Bewildered by new tech AI, Big Data, New Media landscape? A curious innovator, Caribbean Educator Journalist Dr Kris Rampersad self-experiments injesting 100s of course offerings & learnings across AI & Datafields discovered this to aid sector leaders

‘Oh brave new AI world that there’s so much data in’t!’ Missed me since the Data Crash? I am resurfacing, refreshed? invigorated? (the jury is out!) with new learnings, if not new knowledge. Having plunged into the deep dark waters of AI, Emerging Tech and Data Science, immersed myself in the unholy depths of alien codes and algorithms, I can say I am born again, this time a CEIBA Cyborg,…

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What Is A Woman Power Shift in Musical Boardroom Sydnie Transcends Sinatra's My Way the Hi-Way

A quiver of lips...intense stare... emphatic pause...grasp for breath & piercing scream reaching into painful depths & ecstatic heights of womanhood Dr Kris Rampersad delves into disrupting deeply entrenched gender stereotyping in music Sydnie vs Sinatra

Sydnie pitches Sinatra’s famed cocky melody onto a new path as the potential female anthem of aspiration, endurance and achievement, while cracking the gender-conditioning embedded in music culture, for a place in its boardroom.Dr Kris Rampersad, What Is A Woman Power Shift in Musical Boardroom Sydnie vs Sinatra find more CEIBA-EDUtainment at GLoCal Knowledge Pot,…

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The Lights that Spark Us! Between birthdays & & death's day Shine On! For Denise In Tribute

What do you do when someone messages you with an invitation to their own funeral? On Birthdays & Death's Day & the Lights That Spark Us! In Tribute more at www.KrisRampersad

I stared at the message for more than a few moments. It’s an invitation. To the funeral of the sender! The message from Denise’s phone announcing her death and funeral arrangements completely resonates with her living voice. It is the voice of a few months ago, vibrant and vivacious as in the photo, the light in her heart, shining through her eyes, lighting the room when she was filling me in on…

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Bloody Hell! Toxic Power in King Charles' Portrait of Planet … Confronting the Colonial Mindset

If Machiavelli and Lady Macbeth had a baby he would look something like the Portrait of King Charles III - a karmic depiction of human ugly, toxic power at its most macabre, noxious and nihilistic, the apocalyptic legacy of Empire inherited and claimed as

Demokrissy, Pioneer Winner of the BBC/UNESCO/DFID Partners Development Policy Blogging for New Media & Woman Techmakers’ Ambassador Impact the Future Banner http://www.krisrampersad.com If Machiavelli and Lady Macbeth had a baby he would look something like the Portrait of King Charles III – a karmic depiction of human ugly, toxic power at its most macabre, noxious and nihilistic, the…

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Pieces of Ma MotherContinent village inspires a global village Happy Mothers' Day

Even invisible and unrecognised women inspire the world. Here's how Happy Mothers' Day!

The story of Ma is a simple one that matches her own simplicity. One does not have to be in the limelight with millions of followers to be an inspiration and Impact the World. It is a message that is pertinent to girls and women of today caught in social media syndrome that imposes a sense of inadequacy from the pressures for social media followings. Our mothers generally relegated to…

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What Really Happened On the Road to Guyana? Wanted! A New Journalism for A New Development Agenda – With BBC Gone#3

So if I have resisted jumping on the bandwagon of media shares and commendations, it is because I have been watching on in amused bemusement. Not for long, though, it soon turned into something else altogether. So her I am pushed directly on the path of the bolting bandwagon! Demokrissy, Impacting the Future International Women’s Day Women Techmakers Ambassadors at the GloCal Knowledge…

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Mayday! Mayday! Mutated Tech-Savvy Sharks Invade Roadways new Tonton Macoutes Open Letter To Minister of Transport et al

Mayday! Mayday! Mutated Tech-Savvy Sharks Invasion takes a satirical look at this invasive species and its impact on island nation. Satire Allegory

The species, with newly acquired tech toys can pick up nanoscopic electromagnetic currents of human enjoyment and pop up on particularly joyful holiday weekends, entertainment venues and the like.Dr Kris Rampersad in GloCaL knowledge Pot, demokrissy: Mayday! Mayday! Mutated Tech-Savvy Sharks INVADE ROADWAYS http://www.krisrmapersad.com Who is Demokrissy & Independent Spirits-…

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Confronting The Colonial Mindset & Systemised Bias With BBC Gone Who Goin Tek Over Town II Happy Girls In ICT Day!

Confronting the Colonial Miindset With BBC Gone, Who Goin Tek Over Town introducing a New Series that delves into the heart of dilemmas of development through media and new media Happy international Gils In ICTs Day

Impact the Future International Women’s Day women Techmakers Ambassadors Happy International Girls In ICT Day! With focus on Leadership for Girls in ICTs and Strengthening STEM initiatives, I wish to lead focus on the intangible elements that often get overlooked in the considerations of the gaps in tangible technologies which perpetuate entrenched inequalities and inhibit programme and…

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Cover Story Dr Kris Changing The World With Ideas Impact the Future IWD Reflections

As we move to identify gaps in the journey to impact the world for women's equality, here's a look at the journey travelled Changing the World With Ideas International Women's Day Cover Story for Newsday Women's Weekly Magazine

On the Women’s Techmakers’ Theme Impact the Future I continue to reflect on the journey travelled. Of the several interviews I have been ‘it’ to, in a career of making ‘it’ of others – that is being subjected to the scrutiny of journalists, this by Keiran Khan of Newsday is one for all seasons. I was enroute to open the exhibition Eye Hayti…Cries…Everywhere by Master Artist Leroi Clarke, as…

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Creating From Chaos Arresting the Tears for Us and the Haitian Earth

Creating from Chaos to address the Dilemma that centres the democratic developmental and humanitarian crises in Haiti more Krisrampersad.com

Dr Kris Rampersad Woman TechMakers’ Ambassador Impact The Future Gender Unfinished Agender GloCaL Knowledge Pot Demokrissy winner of Communications Initiative – UNESCO, BBC, & Partners Development Policy Blogging for New Media click on image or see and subscribe at Youtube for video “We are confronting the tragedies of humanity that bring us to despair, to tears. They are personal and they are…

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Dirty Lyrics CARICOM@50 Guyana President jams on opaque data culture-Impact the Future Women Techmakers Happy IWD!

Happy International Women's Day. As all issues are women's issues, along the theme of Global Women Techmakers' Impact the World, I share these spotlight on Dirty Lyrics and spotlight on the use of formation and information technologies

CARICOM@50 put down a culture jam with Dirty Lyrics that held primetime media spotlight for its just-concluded biannual meeting. Tossed into the first four minutes – the attention span of new media piranha culture – of the welcome speech by host and CARICOM Chair, President of Guyana Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali, dirty lyrics proved to be succinct media bait. It turned the spotlight on social and…