Personal facts Milton Ponson and bearing on contribution to the W3 AI-KR CG

Dear all,
There seems to be some interest in my academic credentials and record of publications.
My LinkedIn profile is quite complete and leaves no doubts about the level of my academic background. There are no publications, because none have been released or ready for publication yet.
I do not fit the traditional academic mold, but then again this was never mentioned as a conditio sine qua non for having an account with the W3C or being part of a community group.
I am a Dutch citizen and carrier of a European Union passport and consequently try to structure all my scientific and innovation efforts in accordance with EU guidelines, legislation, programs and projects.
As a mathematician with a keen interest in applying math and ICT for sustainable development I have seen more than my fair share of national, global and regional failures in trying to attain sustainable development.
The European Union and the UNESCO espouse the quadruple helix approach for open and inclusive science as a driver for sustainable development.
Yet over the past four years we have seen science being virtually sidelined by populist leaders in many a developed "democratic and civilized" country.
The March for Science movement is a response to this troubling new social trend.
My Alma mater is Leiden University and its motto is Libertatis Praesidium, and it has through history stood for freedom of spirit, thought and speech and freedom of research and teaching.
I have lead a double life as a mathematician, scientist, small time entrepreneur and as an all-round activist and global advocate in a country with NO science and technology infrastructure, no science library, and with my country currently positioned on the event horizon of the black hole called Venezuela.
Under such circumstances, working in isolation, with only the Internet for peer networking, working on any subject becomes tricky, and I thank the American Skeptics Society and extensive literature about what constitutes good science and technology, that I have refrained from publishing anything so far, until I can submit my articles to a peer reviewed publication (not an option in  the Caribbean region).

When posts are submitted to this list with the header misrepresentation, mind wrecking cognitive dissonance and consistency a very fine line gets crossed

I do admit this is a valid issue in knowledge representation, but it also applies to stubborn, narrow minded and intolerant practitioners of science.
Because we as scientists and engineers are on the brink of becoming an endangered subspecies, have difficulty with communications in general to the general public, in particular with regard to issues that should be central in policy making across the globe, we can ill afford to be infighting.
In the future we will depend on academics, scholars, scientists and citizen science practitioners and engineers and people with engineering skills to build a better, new world.
AI is seen as fundamental to the science, technology and engineering needed for this new sustainable world.

I am an academic and mathematician, only now getting to writing articles under challenging circumstances, but I have a wealth of acquired knowledge which I plan to put to good use through scientific and open publications on AI and other issues.
If it makes Paola feel better and for the benefit of the AIKR Community Group I will withdraw my bid for co-chair, because I already have a 24/7/365 job in dealing with miscreants in the political, corporate and even academic community in my country bent on promoting  misrepresentation, cognitive dissonance, inconsistency and falsification of the truth, and censoring, marginalizing, stigmatizing and isolating academics, scientists and engineers .
Sapienti sat.


Milton Ponson
GSM: +297 747 8280
PO Box 1154, Oranjestad
Aruba, Dutch Caribbean
Project Paradigm: Bringing the ICT tools for sustainable development to all stakeholders worldwide through collaborative research on applied mathematics, advanced modeling, software and standards development