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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…
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In the News Digital Dilemma in Caribbean Education Culture New Directions Needed for ICT Planning
All issues are Women's Issues including the focus on the Digital Dilemma of Protecting and Conserving Caribbean Culture in the Digital Age from Digital cultures of Governance. Happy International Women's Day from This Global Woman Techmakers' Ambassador!
In the News Dr Kris Rampersad on Digital Education and Culture
ICT Pulse podcast on issues regarding Digital Media in Culture and Education. It maps the progress and gaps to date and the challenges and missing dimensions in the quest for digital balance and equality.
Impact of Technology
In introducing the topic, host Michelle Marius reflected on how the impact of technology on culture is a…
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A Carnival Memoire Jus call me Cooligan! Bois and Bacchanal in meh blood One Fine J'Ouvert Morn
Bois and Bacchanal This Happened on J'Ouvert Carnivals of today and yesteryear A trip down m dong where the tempo is guess where... Happy Carnival
Mooma mooma yuh son in d grave ahready….
Some people, like Destra and her Lucy, are introduced to Carnival.
And some of us are just born into bois and bus’ head!
So, Ricardo, just call me Cooligan!… Read on for more…
One of my earliest memories, so early that is only an impression on my memory and not a memory really, is of Pa, coming home with his head bust – blood dripping down the sides of…
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Pokney From the Pyre PM Panday Patni/Wife Progeny Poke Patriarchy
Disrupting the Status Quo Presence of Prime Minister Panday’s Patni/wife and Progeny at Hindu pyre cremation implications for cultural practice, discrimination and violence against women and boys' education from Heritage Educator Dr Kris Rampersad
Pokney From the Pyre PM Panday Patni/Wife & Progeny Poke the Patriarchy!
Persistent Patriarchal attitudes towards women are embedded in cultural practices and are internalised by social agents as teachers and care-givers, including women, who pass these on to boys and girls, perpetuating cultures of violence and other negative social behaviours.Dr Kris Rampersad, Global Heritage Educator.…
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Prime Minister Panday's Last Parlance - Final Fiery Journey Comes Full Circle to Reconnect with Ancestors
When you came into the world, people laughed, and you cried.Go do something in life that when we die, the world weeps and we laugh.Sant Kabir Das, Basdeo Panday’s favoured Poet & Philosopher
Panday’s Last Parlance, his final fiery journey comes full circle to reconnect with his ancestors with a State Procession of compatriots from the at the Southern Academy of the Performing Arts to the…
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People's Prime Minister Panday's Parting Punch in prep for Tell-All Memoire - mutating orator into author In Remembrance
His inglorious gift of gab would take him to the pinnacles of his profession, but it is the pen that would prove mightier to the sword-sharp tongue of the Silver Fox, PM Panday more at www.krisrampersad.com
Winner of the Communications Initiative Partners (BBC/UNESCO et al) pioneering Development Policy Blogging for New Media, Dr Kris Rampersad Demokrissy Blogs now find a home at GLoCaL Knowledge Pot
The People’s Prime Minister Basdeo Panday’s Parting Punch is neatly couched in a pep-talk to him to pen his memoires – a promised tell-all which will leave no one ‘unscathed’ as ‘a most colourful…
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Silver Fox Who Dared Lions - former Prime Minister Basdeo Panday - Passes On
Silver Fox who dared Lions passes on New Year's Day Farewell
He would be known as the Silver Fox who dared Lions. 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.
As condolence pour in from all quarters, I extend sympathies to his family and friends and the…
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When Your World View is the World's View! Happy New Year!
When Your World View is the World's View tuned in from every corner of the world. Look out for more creative stimulants in the New Year 2024!
When You World View is the World’s View! Happy New Year!
As we say goodbye to 2023, thank you for tuning in! Look out for more creative stimulants in the New Year, even as we reflect on a year that has drawn you into the GloCaL Knowledge Pot where the world’s minds meet from virtually every corner of the world, as the map indicates. We have moved from being just an incubator to a fermenting…
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ICJ to pronounce on provisional request by Guyana Dec 1 2023
Guyana-Venezuela controversy - ICJ to pronounce on Guyana provisional order at 10 am Dec 1 2023
Judge Joan E. Donoghue, President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will pronounce on requests by Guyana for a provisional order to halt Venezuela’s threat to annex, occupy and issue Venezuelan passports and ID cards to citizens of Guyana’s Essequibo district at 10 am (T&T/Guyana time; 3 pm in The Hague, Netherlands) on Friday December 1, 2023.
Guyana made the request to the…
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#Britain#Capacity Development#Caribbean#Caribbean culture education#cultural diversity#Global Diversity Inclusion Strategy#Guyana#Guyana-Venezuela Dispute#International Affairs#Knowledge for Sustainable Development#USA
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Brokering the Border Wars - LAC limbo on barbed lines of demarcation as Venezuela-Guyana dispute heightens
A closer and deeper look at the tenuous political stability and peace in Latin America and the Caribbean and potential implications of the Guyana-Venezuela Territorial Dispute
Political stability and peace in Latin America and the Caribbean sit on a fine filigree of loosely-knotted territorial disputes. What are the implications to the wider region of the Venezuela threat to encroach on more than two thirds of territory of Guyana before the International Court of Justice? Let’s trace the threads ….
Brokering Peace Border Wars Threaten Thinly Threaded Territorial…
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When Kerry Met Kris - Negotiating Caribbean Development with US Secretary of State
We heard the welcome news that the USA will return as a member State of UNESCO.
This has been as a result of intense lobbying by civil society and behind the scenes cajoling.
The US rejoining signal new possibilities for bilateral and multilateral arrangements with Caribbean countries.
The work started halted and stayed in abeyance for eight years.
That’s how sluggish the diplomatic and…
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#Audrey Azoulay#Caribbean#Caribbean Authors#Caribbean culture education#diplomacy#Dr Kris Rampersad#Global Diversity Inclusion Strategy#GloCal Knowledge Pot#International Affairs#John Kerry#Knowledge for Sustainable Development#UNESCO
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UNESCO actions and funding under scrutiny, says Trinidad representative
Providing focus to centering the agenda needs and agendas of the developing world, Global South and small islands.
In the News: From The Archives
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — Details of funds and activities that would impact small island developing states (SIDS) within the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will come before the agency’s executive board’s…
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SIDS education culture agenda before UNESCO Executive Board
Understanding the mechanisms of global governance and how to use the instruments to effect change is one of the challenges facing the region whose representatives often fall into patterns of becoming copycats of dominant agendas.
In the News – From the Archives
Details of funds and activities that would impact Small Island Developing States (SIDS) within UNESCO will come before the UNESCO…
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#Capacity Development#Caribbean#Caribbean culture education#cultural diversity#Global Diversity Inclusion Strategy#International Affairs#Knowledge for Sustainable Development
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T&T Offers Multicultural Experience To UNESCO’s New Humanism Thrust - In the News
Positioning small islands, the developing world and the Global South on the international agenda requires concerted action and interventions. Here are some of the interventions I made as Vice President of the UNESCO Programme and External Relations Commission and Trinidad and Tobago Representative on the UNESCO Board.
In the News: From the Archives
PARIS, France — Trinidad and Tobago has…
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