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  Applied Intelligence …   A Strategy in Pursuit of a Caribbean Renaissance   Introduction   Power, the highly sought-after functional mainstay of humanity’s existence throughout time, remains central to the pursuit of prosperity in any society.   Knowledge, capital, and technology are all ingredients to that pursuit and have consistently underwritten prosperity throughout time. And, as history shows, through evidence and analysis, those people, groups, nations that have focused on developing knowledge ecosystems facilitated by technology we're able to thrive exponentially over the very long term.   Today, the world is at a transitionary inflection point, a critical juncture, where many societies around the world are now faced with fundamental economic decisions, whereby new robust transcending technology, where access and utility of it, is becoming increasingly determinant to successful economic outcomes.   For the Black popu
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  ESG Investing or Improving the Lives of Others… Perry C. Douglas | August 15, 2021 The Inclusive Agenda   On August 13, 2021, I was watching (COVID world reality) the memorial service, a celebration of life for my Aunt Dr. Clotilda Douglas-Yakimchuk, via Sydney Nova Scotia, she lived an extraordinary life, which demonstrates how ordinary people can achieve extraordinary things.   My Aunt was the recipient of numerous awards, including The Order of Canada, Canada’s highest civilian honour, with membership awarded to those who exemplify the Order's Latin motto Desiderantes meliorem patriam, which means "(those) desiring a better country."   She was an environmentalist, social justice and mental health activist all rolled up with a soft tone delivery, but with steely resolve, and a relentless will to win.   During the ceremony, one of the speakers expressed eloquently, the essence of who my aunt was, and what she stood for: “…Improving
  The POWER Identity A Caribbean-centric Strategy for Riding the Global Wealth Curve   Perry C. Douglas   PROLOGUE The Science Technology and Innovation (STI) Path   Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) have always been the development bedrock of civilization, from agricultural revolutions to industrial revolutions, STI application has always led to economic growth.   Today, in the early stages of the 5 th Industrial Revolution (5IR), the efficiencies being created through STI remain fundamentally similar to revolutions of the past, the only difference this time, and a gigantic one, is the enormity, scale, and transformative nature those efficiencies can deliver.     The utilization of science and technology to increase efficiency, productivity, and output, is fundamental to economics.   Relatively speaking we all have access to the same technology, however, innovation is the exponential growth function, the transcending variable.   “I