The GloCal Kowledge Pot is futuring sustainable development and the Post Pandemic Planet beyond the Novel Corona Virus.
It provides novel perspectives and insights through evidenced-based research, information, analyses, visualisations, presentations and distributions
Its ways of strengthening family, community, building resilience among next generation leaders.
Novel Responses to the Novel Corona Virus
Join the Effort in reconnecting family and Community and the village to the global village. New informal education offerings and courses in the GloCal Academy.
Project 1: Bridging the Distance in Social Distancing
Social Distancing & Quarantine-Safe At Home Edutainment and activity pack for the whole family. Peer reviewed and approved by National Geographic EducatorsJ. Join Now.
Fact Versus Fake
Visit our Fact Check Gallery on the Novel CORONA Virus Fact Versus Fake
Fact ?Or Fake? Gallery of Corona Virus COVID-19 Dos and Don’ts from the World Health Organisation. www.krisrampersad.com
Breaking News
Break Throughs in Scientific Research
Voice of the Underprivileged
LOL GLoCaL Knowledge Pot (pronounced Glo-Cal) is a tongue-twister, and a mind bender too! So let’s explore what this is about.
Leaves of Life (LOL)
LOL as we all know is a laugh out loud experience. It is also the abbreviation for Leaves of Life.
Our Leaves of Life portal with Dr Kris Ramperasd is about the stories we tell from our lives.
This is what our Leaves of Life portal to Leaves of Life. Our interconnected lives as an an LOL experience!
We draw these stories from experiences and knowledge and interactions with the world around us. Hence we have a Global Local and Caribbean Knowledge Pot – GLoCal Knowledge Pot (pronounced Glow-Cal).
Leaves of Life is Global Local Caribbean GLoCal Knowledge Pot is inspired by the plant, Leaves of Life.
As you may have noticed our Logo is derived from that amazing plant known as the Wonder of the World, Miracle Plant or Leaves of Life.
Find out more about Leaves of Life here, and how if forms part of our Global Local Caribbean Knowledge Pot and yours. You may even find some miracles and cures and explore the healing art of story making and storytelling.
Everyone loves of LOL. We do too. That’s why our portal is for anyone of any age, of any interest an in any locale.
We are making a special effort to be accessible to everyone – even those who cannot read or see or hear, or may have some other handicap or ailment. We are all-inclusive.
We practice diversity appreciation.
We are diverse as we cover all ages and interests, all industries.
In brief the LOL vision, mission and goals are as follows:
Leaves of Life aims to Explore! Entertain! Excite! Educate! Empower! Engage!
We make interconnections from many angles, perspectives and dimensions. We bring together traditional beliefs, habits practices of the intangible arena to the tangible arena in every sphere.
We unite disciplines in humanities and sciences, art, culture and education.
In the field of media, literature and books, we mesh traditional conventional textual forms with audio visual forms of new media.
The Leaves of Life reason for being is to enhance and accrue value to ordinary, mundane everyday knowledge and experiences. We inject them with extraordinary energy by converting them into multimedia and literary products and services.
In this way we work to simulate value, respect, appreciation and understanding. These are intangible things that we cannot touch or see but are important to the tangible elements of the things we can see and touch in our lives.
We hope to enhance the creative, entertainment, tourism and industrial sectors; grow capacity for literary livelihoods; and develop community-based income-generating literary and other heritage activities.
LOL GLoCal Knowledge Pot Virtual Multimedia Museum & Galleries
We promote synergies between new media technologies and traditional print, textual and audio visual media.
By this we advance understandings of the relationship between literary, entertainment, performance and film sectors with cultural heritage tourism, creative industries and other dimensions of sustainable development.
These include sustainable development of environment, ecological and heritage conservation, global partnerships, sustainable industrial development, poverty alleviation, gender equality, youth engagement and democratisation of societies.
The Leaves of Life vision is to establish a seamless relationship from thought to action across disciplines, and spheres and that makes us unique in the drive for sustainable development.
The Leaves of Life portal you will find:
? publications, productions, and events in multimedia – text, print, image, audio, video audio
? Exciting interactive sustainable development community-based literary, heritage
Other initiatives for development of human talents to enhance and upgrade institutions and industries.
And GLoCal?
Now to the other mouthful: GLoCal. Pronounced Glow-Cal
If you haven’t already guessed – or read it on our site pages, it is our acronym for Global Local Caribbean – that’s where we’re at . The range and scope of inter-connected heritage and knowledge streams are international and universal, inclusive and all-encompassing.
There’s something here for everyone.
Stick with us. We will have many other tongue twisters for you! You can click the subscribe button top left so you will not miss out. You can also find us on social media so be sure to follow to keep up-to-date-on new developments.
There is sure to be something here for everyone, because we are interested in about everything under the sun, and then some. Beyond the sun, we reach to the stars to restore the natural wonder in creation and creativity within and around us.
And so ours is a journey of exploration our interconnected global heritage to foster inter-generational respect and understanding.
Explore! Entertain! Excite! Educate! Empower! All Leaves of our Lives, together that’s a GLOC@l Knowledge Pot, wouldn’t you say?
Enhance your CSR Partner with Us
Ask Us to Design a customised CSR Corporate Package for You. Includes collaborative advertising and product placement, sponsorships and partnerships; customise workshops, seminars, heritage an learning journeys. Or sponsor copies of books an other products for schools, communities, libraries and children of your organisations.
Contact Us with your interests.
Dr Kris Rampersad Global Local & Caribbean Knowledge Pot of InterConnected Heritage www.krisrampersad.com
- Renaissance in Global Conscience: Local Intel Defying Algorithms for Media Futures
Blazing hillsides light the way into a year of reaching new heights from one that reached into new frontiers towards the Rennaissance in Media Futures with the GloCal Knowledge Pot, the autopsy and requiem for the dying old order complete this trilogy… - Power Politics & Pursuit of Press Freedom: Requiem To News of the DayExorcism or Autopsy! Bawling like a mother losing a child to crime, I Demokrissy asks What killed the News of the Day? From first words to last, an up close and personal look at the innards News Media Power & Politics in this AuthenTHINK Intel Forensic AnalyEthic post-mortem of power, where truth reads like fiction
- Power of One! An AuthenTHINK Intel AnalyEthics Autopsy of News of the DayPost Mortem of News Media Can one news story do all this? an AuthenTHINK Intel Forensic AnalyEthics Not knowing this might have cost News of the Day her life! From First Words To Last An Autopsy
- This is no coonoomoonoou village Data banking world memory
This aint no coonoomoonoou Village Dr Kris Rampersad Christmas Message restores confidence to this village in a world where algorithms decide who is seen and who remains invisible, more www.krisrampersad.com and @krisrampersad on youtube - Recoding New Global Order AuthenTHINK Times People of the Year
Does AI merit Time’s Person of the Year title? AuthenTHINK Times with Demokrissy explores how to Flip the Media Script to rebalance the equation on awards and recognitions reprogramming the colonised humans by those of us trekking through time, Hop on Board this journey of rediscovery Explore with me …. - To New Tech Emperors How To Reverse Macaulay Minute One Min12 Emperors of Tech, one globe-trotting truth-seeker with a coveted roadmap & one tech minute to Reverse the Macaulay Minute & change the course of the New Age War for Peace more at www.krisrampersad.com
- Epic Great War Oils New World Battle in Diaspora High Seas
Did someone say War? What is a War without an EPIC or an EPIC without War, complete with Hero, Heroine Villains & a sage guru describing unfolding War action on oiled frontier battlefield of Demokrissy. Journey with me in the face of our New World Wars…new Epic with modern twists - EPIC Treks New Diasporas Cross Routes Roots of Ancient WorldOn the path of ancient scribes, I journey through the Ancient Silk Routes to find the startling primeval prehistoric heritage and other interconnections between East and West …
- Resource Bridging for EPIC Treks through New World HeritageWhat is it that last longer than a magnificently constructed bridge; bridges the greatest physical and metaphysical divides and and spans time and space in an eternal continuum – Inspired by the opening the new bridge in Petro-Enriched Guyana, Dr Kris Rampersad looks into the enduring interconnections in Bridges of the Future …
- Monumental Missing Links of Island to World HeritageThis year of planetary alignments shed light on the some of the missing links between Small States and World Heritage, illuminating a lifetime of research treks and explorations . Here’s How…
- Golden Bridge Oils New Silk Route To East in WestAs Guyana’s Demerara Bridge unfurls across the river in a gleaming arc of steel and spirit, it connects far more than two shores. Dr. Kris Rampersad journeys through its symbolism — from the poetry of nation-building to the ancient crossings of civilization that continue to shape the region’s place in the world.
- In the News Retuning the Republic New Civic EducationWouldyou believe that changing the form and channel of this adds whole new dimensions to how we perceive, receive and understand our world. Happy REpublic Day. Building a Nation with novel solutions ….
- Sale of Creative Assets miss the Forex boat fuel Exodus
How leading National Energy agency missed the boat on the knowledge economy and it is not only about that sale of audio visual archives T&T Loss, Barbados Gain…. Symptoms of Black Gold Epidemic and warning to region’s emerging oil economic - Sovereignty Sale Buy Out Culture Gaslight Feuds Fuel Crime
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
In the News: Heritage educator Dr Kris Rampersad on mapping India’s development 180 years after ancestors left. “An - 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
As we face explosion of crime and as the world explodes in conflict and wars, local and international - Cultures Converge in Historic MahaKumbh Mela Pravasi in PrayagrajThe locals believe that those who show up for the Maha Kumbh Mela that takes place once every
- 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
‘Oh brave new AI world that there’s so much data in’t!’ Missed me since the Data Crash? I - What Is A Woman Power Shift in Musical Boardroom Sydnie Transcends Sinatra’s My Way the Hi-WaySydnie pitches Sinatra’s famed cocky melody onto a new path as the potential female anthem of aspiration, endurance
