250 (or so) Provocative Words: Karen Bellato Pérez
Hello ChatGPT, how can you add value to rural and indigenous communities??
I did ask ChatGPT but? the answer is actually irrelevant. While we are firing up social media, news and blogs about how AI is going to revolutionize the world, I cannot stop thinking about all our rural and indigenous colleagues working on tourism that have a different reality that AI cannot understand.
I’m talking about people that might not read or even speak Spanish, but know nature and how to preserve it. People who stay in the fields instead of going to school and now they are the first respondents to put out a fire. People who preserve their indigenous language even when it? seems?to be a barrier to enter the modern world.
We need to prioritize solutions for rural and indigenous communities with friendly technologies, internet democratization, indigenous languages webinars, courses, websites, etc. and we need to do it because without indigenous leaders, women and young representation we lose the opportunity to actually promote a better way of traveling,?have a higher chance to protect Mother Earth, and fight for social justice. Indigenous and rural communities are?our colleagues and that should be enough to include them in the decision making process on how we want to shape the tourism sector using these new technologies.?
This is my message to Chat GPT: you are too far my friend to understand real-life challenges if today’s disconnected realities continue. This is my message to you: I invite us to make some reality checks before thinking that some technologies like AI are here to change the sector, especially when we work on sustainability and regeneration. We need to prioritize other solutions first that can create real value for all of us.?
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