Caribbean cultural intelligence enters Salzburg Global to change finance structures In The News
Dr Kris Rampersad 
Creating Futures Rethinking Cultural Institutions, Investments, Infrastructure with Dr Kris Rampersad at Salzburg Global Austria
As we transition this GloCal Knowledge Pot Platform into its next stage of evolution as a fully functional knowledge intelligence ecosystem, sharing some developments regarding my recent engagements at Salzburg Global
From the land of oil and music, joining the Salzburg Global canon as a Fellow was an opportunity to push beyond rhetoric and posturing. It allowed us to advance the repositioning of culture, not as peripheral and ornamental, but as foundational to economic prosperity, innovation, diversification, social cohesion, and global peace and security.
Dr Kris Rampersad Salzburg Global Fellow, Multilateral Relations, Multimedia Content Innovator, Journalist, Author
In The News
Salzburg, Austria: Dr Kris Rampersad, global development strategist, multimedia content innovator and interdisciplinary knowledge systems pioneer, has been inducted into the network of Salzburg Global, joining its distinguished international canon of Fellows and changemakers.
Her induction follows participation in the 2026 session, Creating Futures: Rethinking Cultural Infrastructure, Investment, where she co-led a landmark vision to redesign global cultural ecosystems, revise finance and investing approaches, and retune development planning to treat culture as ‘civic infrastructure’.
Held at the historic Schloss Leopoldskron in Austria, the historic Austrian palace and Festival Hall, famed as the movie set of The Sound of Music, now headquarters to Salzburg Global which internationally recognised as a centre for diplomacy, culture and global policy. It convened leaders in policymakers, financiers, and development practitioners from around the world to interrogate and redesign the systems that shape cultural production, investment, access, equity and sustainability in a rapidly evolving digital and geopolitical landscape.
Oil and Music
Founded in post war 1947, Salzburg Global is among the world’s most influential transatlantic global think-and-action spaces shaping global policy, culture, diplomacy and leadership for nearly eight decades through collaborative dialogue and exchange. It has among its canon Nobel Laureates, Heads of Global Institutions and State, diplomats and other architects of postwar global governance.
“From the land of oil and music, joining the Salzburg Global canon as a Fellow was an opportunity to push beyond rhetoric and posturing. It allowed us to advance the repositioning of culture, not as peripheral and ornamental, but as foundational to economic prosperity, innovation, diversification, social cohesion, and global peace and security. It also placed Caribbean, SIDS and priorities of the Global South centre stage of the global action agenda for change,” said Dr Rampersad who is an independent scholar, award-winning journalist and author, Woman Techmakers’ Ambassador, UNESCO Heritage Facilitator, and National Geographic Educator.
“I was not simply representing Trinidad and Tobago, the Caribbean or Global South. I took perspectives of communities too often excluded from the rooms where futures are designed. The Caribbean has never lacked intelligence, imagination or innovation. What we have lacked are systems willing to value them with the same seriousness given to extraction, finance and trade.”
Reimaging Culture Financing
The Salzburg discussions explored how cultural systems can be reimagined through more equitable financing, institutional reform, technological innovation and cross-sector collaboration, particularly for marginalised and underrepresented communities.
Dr Rampersad brought to Salzburg global-level experience in strategic international interventions to advance recognition of the value of knowledge systems and cultures of marginalised communities of the Caribbean, SIDS and Global South and interdisciplinary insights spanning intercultural relations, education, gender equity, media. Dr Rampersad is representing the Salzburg experiences as the volume on the Salzburg Showdown, meshed with her other comparative travel in her multimedia depictions in her new work, EPIC Landscapes of World Heritage and History. (See sneak peek of the Salzburg Showdown in this link: https://krisrampersad.com/of-geeze-and-gladiators-defensive-induction-into-distinguished-salzburg-global-network.
In addition to her cultural and knowledge systems leadership, she brought pioneering insights into Ethical AI, new media content innovation and cultural intelligence driven digital futures to counteract data colonialism, algorithmic bias, cultural erasure and inequitable digital futures.
“Multiculturalism is not a mode to be managed; diversity is not an add on. It is the operating system of intelligence and just as we are retuning humans from traditional monocultural mindsets to appreciate that, we must retune AI to avoid those misconceptions,” she said. (See more details on her cultural intelligence AI innovations here).
Within the seminar’s core intellectual exchanges, Dr. Rampersad co-led a creative session titled ‘Connected Cultural Ecosystems and Shared Intelligence.’
“We envisioned a pathway to a ‘Culture-Centred Creative Cosmos,’ interconnecting human and non-human intelligence, including AI to secure creative futures for marginalized, suppressed, and disappearing communities. It inspired other participants to develop a roadmap, circumventing key real-world roadblocks, external and internal shocks and disruptions as financing, taxation, censorship, war, and shortsighted planning.
“This ‘Cosmos’ combined Steiner’s and my experiences in working with communities and fed from the imperative that inspired the GloCal Knowledge Pot. Recognised by a national Lumination innovation award, GKP was created to synergise and bridge gaps, silos and fragmentation in our knowledge systems across separate disciplines of media, culture, gender, education and others to coalesce into a multidisciplinary portal that represents such an interconnection.
Culture Across Sectors
“Here, culture moves from being a sector to pivot understanding through new blended plural multidisciplinary models that drive governance, policy, technology, heritage, education and creative industries and revise broader economic and social planning.
“We are often viewed through the lens of vulnerability. But vulnerability also breeds innovation, resilience, improvisation and forms of knowledge the world urgently needs,” said Dr Rampersad.
“Just as in our 30-plus year lobby to recognize culture as a pivot, not a ‘sector’ of development, the world is now awakening to the imperative of such visioning.”
Sustained Value
Dr Rampersad also contributed to sessions examining “Culture as Civic Infrastructure,” addressing how societies assess, finance and sustain cultural value in rapidly evolving political, economic and digital environments.
“What became clearer was that so many, even those from the North-centric European and American spheres, shared frustrations in the Global South with limitations of mindsets of investors, financiers, and decision makers, including for-profit models that inhibit experimentation and innovation, and realizing the potential of culture and creativity for innovation and transformation,” she reflected, explaining this builds on her development of knowledge ecosystem to embrace a holistic system and process of education, information sharing and exchange in her work and housed at her award-winning GloCal Knowledge Pot web portal www.krisrampersad.com.
Culture Justice
“Culture is not peripheral to governance. Culture is governance. It shapes how societies imagine justice, belonging, memory, economy, identity and the future itself. Therefore it should drive the planning and projects across all sectors.
“And that moves beyond the for-profit models and models of ‘impact investing’ and even current ESG models, for an arena in which impact assessment is grossly underassessed and undervalued and the roles of investors, financiers, public and corporate sector decision making needs to be radically revised.”
Gifts for Iconic Library
Dr. Rampersad presented a selection of her books and creations to Salzburg Global Programme Director Faye Hobson for the iconic Max Reinhardt Library which holds one of the world’s best collections on Euro-American post war development. These including LiTTscapes – Landscapes of Fiction, the official commemorative publication of Trinidad and Tobago’s Jubilee of Independence which documents its literary legacy and heritage to global intelligence, and Through the Political Glass Ceiling, on Trinidad and Tobago’s first female Prime Minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar. It also includes a poster Sopari Mai she developed for UNESCO on the value of intangible cultural heritage positing her original theory of social cohesion from MultiCultural Faiths, and a newly penned poem created for Salzburg, From The Land Petro-Cursed, with an accompanying creative montage of industrial-cultural fragments and fragmentations which directly intertwines Caribbean developmental realities with European industrial history.
Impacting Global Agendas
Dr Rampersad has already impacted international agendas in other spheres, including from conceptualising the Commonwealth Caribbean Women Agents of Change initiative that now feeds into UN initiatives for gender equality, and devising new modes of multi stakeholder engagement to value grassroots inputs for the Caribbean agriculture sector which was adopted by the EU Centre for Technical Cooperation in Agriculture, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and Caribbean Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture for their Brussels dialogues on strengthening Food Security.
Her featured portfolio represented within the Salzburg programme highlighted experience with global organisations as UNESCO, Commonwealth, EU and InterAmerican institutions towards education reform, gender equity, ICTs media and development communication, literacy, cultural heritage and governance.
Blended Knowledge Streams
Her blended innovative concepts changing blended digital content with traditional knowledge forms and techniques include CEIBA EDUtainment which integrates traditional knowledge systems with digital technologies.
New frames as AuthenTHINK Intel and AI AnalyEthics are designed to address data biases and support transparent, equitable, and accountable approaches to AI and machine learning, all critical to global debates on digitisation, blended education models, and AI governance. They bring culturally grounded insights for assessing algorithmic behaviour, mitigating data distortions and opacity, and strengthening digital rights for vulnerable communities.
Epic Landscapes & Mindscapes
Dr Rampersad is representing the Salzburg experiences as the volume on the Salzburg Showdown, meshed with her other comparative travel in her multimedia depictions in her new work, EPIC Landscapes & Mindscapes of World Heritage and History. (See sneak peek of the Salzburg Showdown here)
This new age mixed-media EPIC is multimedia sequel to her landmark publication LiTTscapes, creatively redefining the future of global power structures by meshing knowledge traditions in music, sound, epic techniques with ICTs and tracking ancestral interconnections and migration routes across the Global South, Latin America, and India.
This is being delivered in her newly devised creative short form, the MultiMedia MicroEpic that coalesces classical epic traditions using CEIBA EDUtainment, new blended digital and traditional storytelling tools and techniques.
Evolving Ethical AI
Looking ahead, Dr Rampersad is expanding the reach of her Ethical AI initiatives by integrating them into the next evolution of the GloCaL Knowledge Pot (www.krisrampersad.com) as a global to local incubator-accelerator and multidisciplinary intelligence ecosystem to drive multisectoral diversification across the Global South.
Its database will include her original investigative research-based evidence across sectors AuthenTHINK Intel and AI AnalyEthics to direct future technology into equitability equity and accountability in the digital age with cultural intelligence.
“From the shared experiences across the globe by practitioners on the theme Creating Cultures: Rethinking Cultural Institutions, Investment and Infrastructure, the notion of the GloCal Knowledge Pot as an integrated global-to-local intelligence ecosystem is clearly an idea whose time has come.”
Partnership and Information Contact
For more roadmaps, research and insightsinto this and emerging AI issues and to support, donate, sponsor, or explore institutional integration strategies, please contact: visit the GloCal Knowledge Pot at www.krisrampersad.com, Email: drkrisrampersadinfoservices@gmail.com, and follow on Social Media: @krisrampersad (LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram) | krisrampersad1 (Facebook, TikTok) | @krisramp (X)
See links to other reflections on the Salzburg experiences.
The Salzburg experience reinforced the imperative and need for a Glocal Knowledge Intelligence Ecosystem as that I conceived more than a decade ago when establishing the GloCal Knowledge Pot as a global to local incubator accelerator
Dr Kris Rampersad Salzburg Global Fellow, Multilateral Relations, Multimedia Content Innovator, Journalist, Author
Reflections on Takeaways
Inclusion in the Salzburg canon as a Fellow culminates decades of efforts trying to reshape global and regional policy integrating culture, media, education, gender, governance, and development, drawing on the perspectives of marginalised communities across Latin America, the Caribbean, SIDS, and the Global South from working through UN, Commonwealth, EU, and InterAmerican systems.
Invisible Perspectives
Participation at Salzburg Global meant giving prominence to the generally invisible perspectives of the Caribbean and Small States within a global agenda setting sphere to impact future directions on culture and development, and contributing insights grounded in multilateral engagement, media innovation, and community-centred knowledge systems.
For me, the Salzburg experience reinforced the imperative and need for a Glocal Knowledge Intelligence Ecosystem as that I conceived more than a decade ago when establishing the GloCal Knowledge Pot as a global to local incubator accelerator, but its development has been restricted owing to limited resources and shortsightedness of investors on the one hand and on the other by sectors scrambling to keep abreast of rapidly evolving Geotech and edtech environments.
This is behind redesigning and redeveloping the GloCal Knowledge Pot portal www.krisrampersad.com into a global-to-local incubator-accelerator and multidisciplinary resource at front end, moving the back end and background knowledge, experiences, archiving and retooling mechanisms to the fore. It will give visual breath to global best practices while exposing seething inequalities, deconstructing biases that manifest in suppression of the sector by investors and planners now being replicated in AI and redefining the knowledge and creative cultural, tourism, heritage and education as synergised architecture and ecosystem for meaningful multisectoral diversification.
At Salzburg Global, it was energizing and motivating to see that the world is now awakening to this need and the potential of this vision of culture-centred development that I and others in the global community have been championing for more than three decades!
From the shared experiences across the globe by practitioners on the theme Creating Cultures: Rethinking Cultural Institutions, Investment and Infrastructure, the notion of the GloCal Knowledge Pot integrated global-to-local intelligence ecosystem is clearly an idea whose time has come.
Integration of Ethical AI into the GloCaL Knowledge Pot with AuthenThink Intel and AI AnlyEthics marks a significant evolution of the platform, enabling it to function not only as a cultural-intelligence ecosystem but also as a guardian of equity and accountability in the digital age.
Innovating uses of digital new media and Ethical AI to deepen their uses for education, policy development and creative economy, is geared to ensuring that future global governance frameworks incorporate cultural intelligence, decolonised methodologies and safeguards for marginalised knowledge systems.
That moves beyond the ‘for-profit’, and ‘impact investing’ and even existing ESG models for an arena in which impact assessment is grossly underassessed and undervalued.
Yet, Ethical AI and its place in cultural intelligence-driven digital futures was the invisible elephant in the room at the Salzburg Global engagements for Creating Futures: Rethinking Cultural Infrastructure, Investment.
The discomfort AI continues to evoke in discussions on culture signals the urgent need for closer engagement with shapers of AI policy, systems and mechanisms to take a closer look at how AI is impacting us and reshaping humanity, culturally and the role of responsible AI in shaping equitable Creative Futures.
I have consistently held that we need to ensure that AI systems do not replicate historical inequities, as I have accumulated much research evidence that they currently are, as I refine ways in which they could instead embed cultural diversity, transparency and accountability at core, to restore visibility and viability to marginalised, suppressed, disadvantaged and communities and cultures whose existence is threatened by its very presence.
Even in the processes for developing a blueprint for framing cultural ecosystems in view of ‘Culture as Civic Infrastructure” to redefine how cultural value is assessed, financed, and sustained; how institutions must transform to remain relevant; and how interconnected ecosystems can support equitable participation across regions and sectors, AI was the silent hover, neither discussed nor examined, although it was on the agenda.
‘Yet, it is perhaps the greatest threat we face as public and private sector systems, systems of law and education are adopting it wholesale without discrimination, adaptation, critical oversight or assessment of its relevance to specific socio-cultural realities, to devastating and opposite effect to the advances it promises.
While if properly configured, conditioned and used, AI may hold tremendous benefits, the indiscriminate one size fits all mode we are adopting and introducing AI into systems can lead to results that may be irreversible, including what I have described, as potential of cultural genocide it poses for some communities, especially societies like ours that hold so many multicultural nuances and whose realities are largely undocumented and not in its data bases.
And given the failures of our own education system, already built on ill-fitted colonial models, innovating uses of digital new media and Ethical AI to deepen their uses for education, policy development, and creative economy, must be geared to secure creative futures incorporating cultural intelligence, decolonised methodologies and safeguards for marginalised knowledge systems.
My developing frames of AuthenTHINK Intel and AI AnalyEthics apply cultural intelligence with technical assessment to strengthen the notion of more effective development of any sector.
There has been a lot of focus on developing technologies capable of adopting AI geared to make us consumers of technologies, but very little focus by investors on us researching and experiment and devising new modes, models, modules and materials trying to impact the value and relevance of multimedia content AI is delivering in the applications in certain contexts. AuthenTHINK Intel and AI AnalyEthics also address insufficiencies in AI capacities to ethically contribute to creativity and safeguarding knowledge heritage, enable equitable access, and support transparent decision-making across sectors. All that requires support and resources to conduct such probes, experimentations and develop necessary content innovations.
Just as I have been championing the need for responsible, culturally sensitive humans, culturally grounded technologies are essential to building decolonised, inclusive and sustainable development systems. AuthenTHINK Intel integrates cultural intelligence into AI systems to reflect our plural worldviews, ethical principles and community centred values. AI AnalyEthics complements this diagnostically, to evaluate algorithmic behaviour, identify data distortions, bias and opacity, and strengthen accountability.
Such ethical AI frameworks as AuthenTHINK Intel responds to the need for cultural?intelligence?driven interrogation of AI, and AI AnalyEthics as diagnostics for identifying bias, opacity and inequity in algorithmic systems.
AuthenTHINK Intel and AI AnalyEthics directly address the risks of bias, data colonialism and cultural erasure that disproportionately affect SIDS and Global South communities. By embedding diverse knowledge systems into AI design and evaluation, they aim to counteract the replication of historical distortions in digital datasets and protect marginalised communities as they navigate accelerating technological transformation to avoid perpetuating invisibility and inequalities.
This advances approaches to artificial intelligence, grounded in cultural diversity, transparency and accountability. These initiatives extend the principles of a Culture-Centred Creative Cosmos and the GloCaL Knowledge Pot as interdisciplinary ecosystem and into the digital sphere, ensuring that emerging technologies reflect plural worldviews rather than replicate dominant paradigms.
The discussion on the Salzburg Global agenda underscored the need for such treatment of cultural ecosystem. There is much more to probe on the role of Ethical AI in shaping future-oriented governance, financing and investments for Creative Futures.
They are components of “Shared Intelligence,” as natural, human and artificial intelligence co-evolve to support inclusive, culturally grounded and transparent knowledge ecosystems. Like culture, Ethical AI is a structural component of cultural ecosystems, not just an external technological add-on. Be sure I have much more to say on this.
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Support Of Geese and Gladiators and the EPIC Landscapes & Mindscapes Series
From the Pitch Lake to Salzburg’s glassy waters, from archipelagic memory streams to global conversations on culture, knowledge sovereignty and creating futures, this work is part of a larger living archive in development.
You are invited to help expand and sustain this journey of research, writing, multimedia storytelling, cultural preservation and future-making.
Let’s Share a Semester of Knowledge
Join the Journey
Universities, cultural institutions, schools, festivals, think tanks, media platforms, libraries, communities and organizations are invited to host one of these EPIC sessions Make contact to discuss:
- Public Lectures
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- Gender, Culture & AI Conversations
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- EPIC Landscapes & Mindscapes Presentations
- Intergenerational Heritage and mDNA Conversations
Themes span:
- culture-centred development,
- creative economies,
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- AI and AuthenTHINK Intel integrations,
- world heritage,
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- sustainability,
- and the future of multicultural worlds.
Support the Creation Process
The EPIC series is independently researched and produced across multiple countries, archives, landscapes and media platforms.
Support is welcomed through:
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Help strengthen production capacity through support for:
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Support access to:
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Donations & Sponsorship
Contributions can support:
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Become Part of the Dream Weave
This is more than a book project. It is reweaving our civilisation.
It is part of an expanding multimedia knowledge ecosystem:
- bridging worlds,
- safeguarding memory,
- amplifying invisible infrastructures,
- and creating futures beyond imposed limits.
From mountain streams to island shores, from buried diamond minds to global stages, the journey continues.
Extend the Storyworld: Let’s Develop Your Own EPIC Narrative
Every institution, community, family, movement, landscape and enterprise carries hidden archives, untold histories and unrealised futures.
Through the EPIC Landscapes & Mindscapes, Dr Kris Rampersad also collaborates with organizations, communities and individuals to develop distinctive story-driven cultural and multimedia experiences that move beyond conventional branding, documentation and exhibition.
Develop:
- Legacy Projects
- Corporate Profiles
- Institutional Histories
- Cultural Heritage Narratives
- Multimedia Installations
- Interactive Galleries
- Documentary and Storytelling Concepts
- Knowledge Archives
- Digital Memory Projects
- Community Story Maps
- Creative Economy Showcases
- Festival and Exhibition Concepts
- Museum and Legacy Spaces
Beyond Branding – Preserve Your Living Memory
These are not standard promotional products.
The process draws together:
- research,
- storytelling,
- multimedia,
- archives,
- oral histories,
- landscapes,
- sound,
- visual culture,
- memory,
- and future visioning
to create immersive narrative experiences with a distinctive human, cultural and cosmological touch.
Projects may include:
- multimedia displays,
- travelling exhibitions,
- digital galleries,
- interactive educational experiences,
- heritage interpretation,
- audiovisual storytelling,
- publications,
- installations,
- and legacy museums that preserve not only achievements, but the living spirit behind them.
Create a Legacy That Breathes
Whether for:
- corporations,
- public institutions,
- universities,
- NGOs,
- communities,
- artists,
- innovators,
- cultural practitioners,
- families,
- or social movements,
- Tthe aim is to transform fragmented records into meaningful narrative ecosystems that connect past, present and future.
From archives to imagination.
From memory to movement.
From story to living legacy.
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Sovereignty For Sale How Dutch Disease evolved to the Trinidad and Tobago Black Gold Epidemic to create not just in a State of Emergency against Crime. but also a State of Emergency in Education, Media, Culture, Tourism, Agriculture and strife in intercultural relations and negative development spiral. Reflecting on the State of Development in a month of conteplation on the State of the State at Indepdence and the sale of intellectual assets Dr Kris Rampersad Sovereignty Trilogy - PM Mottley More Sweetness To The Culture Market BasketCurious about what really went down at CARIFESTA XV – maturing into a regional stage of opportunities to trade culture and creativity…. here’s an insider glance at the slide show – Caribbean Picong and Satire at its premium best!
- Kashi City of Infinity connects Caribbean to EPIC World HeritageIn this time of ancestral ancestral rememberances, a sneakpeak India EPIC Landscape & Mindscapes of Heritage & History This Is Kashi I come to Kashi, from the world to detach Instead to Kashi’s other-worldly anchors I become attached…
- EPIC Landscapes and Mindscapes of World Heritage and History New!Introducing Innovative EPIC Landscapes & Mindscapes of World Heritage & History where heritage is more than monument, history more than date and decree.. find hidden and lost interconnections of our global heritage from the Caribbean to the world with startling insights and ask about creative partnerships …
- Caribbean Oil Capital Guyana President New Mandate against Dutch DiseaseGuyana President Dr Irfaan Ali took office five years ago, relatively unknown to World Leadership, now five years later his country polls its verdict …. Multilateral Policy Influencer Dr Kris Rampersad reflects on the Caribbean’s new oil capital and the changing tones of the leadership and governance in the region and the Global South
- Ahoy Matey! Navigating World’s Wickedest UNESCO Heritage CitySwashbuckling through tumultuos seas, vessels manned by corrupt pirates, massive bureaucratic blocks and resource limitation Caribbean Queen of Culture Dr Kris Rampersad lands on World’s Wickedest Heritage City to unearth treasure chest for economic diversification identity retrieval and social cohesion and transformation
- LAC Awesome foursome enter UNESCO World Heritage Listour New UNESCO World Heritage Sites for the regio… Maurading the High Seas of Heritage, clutching the lost map retrieved from the depths of the World’s Wickedest Heritage City, the swashbuckling Queen of Caribbean Culture & Heritage, Dr Kris Rampersad, is hot on the trail to unlocking the code to the treasure troves for economic diversification, identity retrieval & social transformation…like & follow for more F krisrampersad.com krisrampersad: youtube, instagram, linkedin
- My World Heritage footprints on UNESCO sites
Swashbuckling Queen of Caribbean Heritage Dr Kris Rampersad navigates the treacherous global waters of World Heritage to leave a trail of footprints to a treasure trove for economic diversification, identity retrieval and social transformation … follow this trail to our interconnected global heritage - SOS! 2025 Security Emergency reopens forgotten Diary of 1990 Coup-bidA State of Emergency, a government confronting criminality & corruption, weaknesses in justice systems and law enforcement agencies with weary and blood-thirsty citizens demanding guns and arms. Dr Kris Rampersad deep dives into the roots of social violence, experiences of the 1990 coup attempt & legacies States of Emergencies
- In the News: Life-Altering Journey Through India
Spread the loveIn the News: Heritage educator Dr Kris Rampersad on mapping India’s development 180 years after ancestors - Inside Pulse of A Civilisation – Tracing Ancestors’ Footsteps in World’s Largest DiasporaWith a blank creative canvas to turn audio visual light on India’s development thrust while retriacing ancestral footsteps, I hurled into the vortex that is India – beyond its racial, religious and geospatial walls
- Knowledge Exchange on Daughters of World Largest Diaspora – A visit with the India AmbassadorHe might be busy getting in placethe nuts and bolts of the visit of Indian Primce Minister Narendra Modi to Trinidad and Tobago but India High Commissioner to TT, Shri Pradeep Rajpurohit took the time to welcome me back to TT from India and to do this ..
- Sopari Mai Reboot! PM Kamla’s 2nd historic election victory to shatter Glass CeilingSopari 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. What’s next on the road to development as a Woman Prime Minister, for the Caribbean as she joins Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley and for the diaspora and the Global South? Dr KRis Rampersad’s AuthenThink Intel Analyses pinpoints key benchmarks…
- In The News: Reshaping Inclusive Development at World’s Largest Diaspora Gathering
Spread the love As we face explosion of crime and as the world explodes in conflict and wars, - Cultures Converge in Historic MahaKumbh Mela Pravasi in PrayagrajSpread the love The locals believe that those who show up for the Maha Kumbh Mela that takes
- My Date with Narendra Modi – revisiting India in the West reshaping a New World OrderPrelude to a closer look at the India-Caricom Summit, coming on the heels of the Brazil-hosted G20 Summit, and some new AuthenThink Intel AI AnalyEthics and insights into what this should mean for the region, the Americas, the Global South and the emerging New World Order!
- Toxic Politics Petticoat Obsession US Election Knickers A-Twist in Race To The Polls A Woman’s Place When America Sneezes
In the cut and thrust of a toxic political culture with a petticoat obsession that leaves many-a-knickers-in-a-twist, how is the USA treating with skews, biases and prejudices that persist in the political playpen and reflecting in its polling analyses, media outputs, advertising and campaign prospects? Dr Kris Rampersad, AuthenThink AI AnalyEthics Development Strategist punches at the appearances in the USA Election Campaign. - High Stakes in US Elections Leadership Matters to Emerging New World Order – When America Sneezes
No matter how vehemently the USA sneezes, virally spreading its cold, flu and pandemic ailments across borders, it is not the whole shebang of the Americas that is our Hemisphere, struggling to assert and affirm myriad identities in a panoramic cultural mosaic - Future AI SciTech Learnings Passport To A Brave New ImaginedNation
Spread the love ‘Oh brave new AI world that there’s so much data in’t!’ Missed me since the - What Is A Woman Power Shift in Musical Boardroom Sydnie Transcends Sinatra’s My Way the Hi-WaySpread the love Sydnie pitches Sinatra’s famed cocky melody onto a new path as the potential female anthem
- The Lights that Spark Us! Between Birthdays & Death’s day Shine On! For Denise In TributeOn Birthdays & Death’s Day: We have is this one instant to spark, to negate the ever-present darkness, to shine our pinpricks of light in the endless stream of sparks that connect our floodlight to the satellite of Cosmic Stars. more at www.krisrampersad.com
- 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 he morphs into the role of Monarch on whose shoulder sits planetary doom, hands and faced stroked with blood. Art defies artistic intent, sitter’s expectations to define its own truths Dr Kris Rampersad explores art artist sitter and society.., - Pieces of Ma MotherContinent village inspires a global village Happy Mothers’ Day
You do not need millions of followers to Impact the World. How our mothers did it Message to Girls gripped by social media syndrome Happy Mothers Day! - What Really Happened On the Road to Guyana? Wanted! A New Journalism for A New Development Agenda – With BBC Gone#3
Spread the love So if I have resisted jumping on the bandwagon of media shares and commendations, it - Mayday! Mayday! Mutated Tech-Savvy Sharks Invade Roadways new Tonton Macoutes Open Letter To Minister of Transport et alNew Tech Savvy Mutant Shark Species Take over Roadways share kinship lineage withe Haiti’s Tonton Macoutes Open Letter to Minister of Transport & Commissioner Roots & Routes of Anarchy Satire & Allegory
- Confronting The Colonial Mindset & Systemised Bias With BBC Gone Who Goin Tek Over Town II Happy Girls In ICT Day!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
- Cover Story Dr Kris Changing The World With Ideas Impact the Future IWD ReflectionsReflecting the Journey to Impact the Future called Wonder Woman Reflections on International Women’s Day Cover Story Changing the World With Ideas
- Creating From Chaos Arresting the Tears for Us and the Haitian EarthCreating from Chaos insights into the Haitian democratic dilemma rooted in an atrocious Colonial past and what artistry may be needed healing and recovery Eye … Haiti …Cries…Everywhere
- Dirty Lyrics CARICOM@50 Guyana President jams on opaque data culture-Impact the Future Women Techmakers Happy IWD!This startling disclosure by Chair of CARICOM, Guyana President Dr Irfaan Ali has repercussions for culture of governance, Data Driven Development, cultural actions for change and gender empowerment Happy International Women’s Day from this Woman Techmakers’ Ambassador
- In the News Digital Dilemma in Caribbean Education Culture New Directions Needed for ICT PlanningHow internet and the technological advancements are causing us to loosen our grip on cultural traditions and heritage, critical to our national and cultural identities and what we can do about it!
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