Earth Day Appeal-Respect knowledge of SIDS Dr Kris to Tech Emperors at Google Tech Makers Caribbean Summit

Celebrate Earth Knowledge for Sustainable Development

As we celebrate Earth Day, I hope we are one step closer to restore the dignity and respect owed to the knowledge resources of the indigeneous and migrants who people our region.

I was humbled and honoured to have been invited to share my experiences as a journalist pioneering reporting on sustainable environmental actions even prior to the first Rio Summit on Environment and Development and engage in this dynamic discussion with Google Tech Makers and Caribbean Women in Tech Summit, Progress not Perfection.

Our strongest assets especially when it comes to climate change is the know how that we have. All of our communities from the  indigeneous and migrants who have come here have  very strong attachments to the environment and to the land. We have not been leveraging this knowledge to push back at some of the conversations that are happening around climate change, and that is because we do not respect the knowledge and the know how and draw out for use the knowledge we have about interconnections, the universe, value for nature and the spiritual elements that surround  that as well.

Dr Kris Rampersad on Climate Action, Sustainability & Technology at Google Tech Makers & Caribbean Women in Tech Summit 2022

I underscore the value and resource strengths and gaps within our region to change the discourse and actions on climate action towards meaningful sustainable action, even as we address who’s minding/mining our knowledge, as other resources.

Why not start Climate Action with knowledge, information & experiences we do have, rather than lament about what we don’t have?

Invitation to giant Tech Emperors

I issue a direct invitation to Google and the other tech giants and ‘digital empires’ identified by the Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley as Netflix, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, IBM…to partner in developing for multimedia the original volumes of relevant biocultural research spanning three decades to prehistory on the region’s environment, best and worst practices, stories and insights, profiles, policy strategies, agenda setting, institution and framework building, education, outreach and advocacy for Planet Earth.

Culturally Relevant

Beyond what is fed through the mainstream media giants as well, they map closely the struggles and strides of the region which is an amalgam of the world’s old and new age cultures through its indigeneous and migrant populations and from which the world may benefit in this thrust for climate risk mitigation action since the first Rio summit on the Environment and Development where sustaainble development was tabled as a global action through to the most current undertaking of developing the MultiMedia MicroEpic with Mother Continent to retrieve the lost knowledge from historical blindness to the Southern Continent and its prehistory.

Latin America and Caribbean Climate Resilience

As I prepare the full presentation, on this Earth Day I share with you this quote from my presentation:

All of our communities from the  indigeneous and migrants who have come here have  very strong attachments to the environment and to the land.

We have not been leveraging this knowledge to push back at some of the conversations that are happening around climate change, and that is because we do not respect the knowledge and the know how and draw out for use the knowledge we have about interconnections, the universe, value for nature and the spiritual elements that surround  that as well.

Rather than the massive focus on the data that we do not have, why don’t we focus on the data that we do? That fact that virtually every imported consultant that we engage sift through my online postings, presence and presentations to ‘borrow’ perspectives approaches and information speak volumes, as we continue to reinvent the wheel in an eternal cycle of stasis.

About Dr Kris Rampersad

Dr Kris Rampersad is an award winning journalist and MultiMedia MultiCultural Sustainable Development Educator. Read More about this journey here

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Connecting Action and Intention

We are connecting ACTION with INTENTION with our Progress Round Tables.

So proud of our FIRST- PROGRESS ROUND TABLE for the IWD Caribbean Tech Summit 2022 focusing on the theme – Climate Action, Sustainability & Technology. It was AMAZING!

Marina O’Brien, Caribbean Women In Tech Summit 2022 Progress Not Perfection RoundTable

Thank you to our dynamic panelists!
Khadine Singh – UX Researcher | Google |
Omar H. Mohammed– CEO – Cropper Foundation
Sasha Jattansingh– Managing Director, Journal of Caribbean Environmental Sciences and Renewable Energy (CESaRE)
Sian Young – Founder Siel Environmental
Alpha Sennon – CEO – WhyFarm
Dr Kris Rampersad– Founder – Leaves of Life

Hosted by- Sara Bernard!

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