by Editor | Apr 29, 2022 | AIWS City and Rebuilding Ukraine, Papers & Reports, News
Discussion Leaders: Governor Michael Dukakis and Nguyen Anh Tuan
Advisor: Jason Furman, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to President Obama, Harvard professor
Contributors: Professors Alex Sandy Pentland, Thomas Patterson, Nazli Choucri, David Silbersweig, Francesco Lapenta, former Vice President of the World Bank Mats Karlsson, former Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina Zlatko Lagumdzija, former President of Latvia Vaira Vike-Freiberga, father of Internet Vint Cerf, Assistant Secretary of Massachusetts Government Nam Pham, EY Global Tax Innovation Leader Jeff Saviano
The Ukrainian people are currently enduring an unprovoked war that has resulted in tens of thousands of combatant and civilian deaths. Many cities and towns have been utterly destroyed by indiscriminate Russian bombing. The free, Democratic nations of the world have rallied around Ukraine to provide military and humanitarian assistance.
The focus of the Boston Global Forum is to help coordinate and call on world leaders, distinguished thinkers, innovators, governments, companies, organizations is on helping to end the war and provide for the basic needs of the Ukrainian people who remain in the country and those who have fled the fighting. When the war ends, there is an opportunity for Ukraine and its allies to rebuild the nation as a model of peace, stability and prosperity. The Boston Global Forum is starting to build strategies and programs for Rebuilding Ukraine.
Strategies for Rebuilding Ukraine
Following hostilities, as Ukraine turns its attention to rebuilding the nation and society, it is imperative to apply standards, norms and common values outlined in the Social Contract for the AI Age and pioneering ideas and concepts contained in the book “Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment,” with contributions by distinguished leaders and thinkers.
The book “Remaking the World” advances pioneering ideas that could help reshape the world as the United Nations progresses toward its centennial in 2045, and addresses the standards that should govern the development and use of AI and digital technology.
These ideas and standards have been the subject of several recent conferences, including the World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid Policy Labs on September 16-18, 2020 and September 7-9, 2021, as well as the Riga Conferences in 2020 and 2021.
Goals
Building a smart democracy, smart cities with high-quality smart schools, where citizens are directly involved in the political decisions of the country. A nation where institutions and structures promote kind, humane, civilized, creative, innovative policies and practices. Where the rule of law protects equality of opportunities for all people, openness, transparency, and engagement with civic institutions. And, the system of taxation is transparent, equitable, and provides sufficient certainty to citizen taxpayers to aid in Ukraine’s recovery.
To apply these concepts to rebuild Ukraine, strategies discussed at the recent conferences include:
Rebuilding cities and infrastructure
Building AI World Society (AIWS) City for Ukraine:
- Apply model concepts of AIWS City to rebuild Ukrainian cities as smart cities.
- AIWS City is a smart digital city with distinguished communities.
- Connect historical, traditional cities as Boston, New York, Washington DC, San Francisco, LA, Chicago, Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Rome, Athens, Vienna, Paris, London, Madrid, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Edinburg, Amsterdam, Brussels, Prague, Dubrovnik, Zurich, Geneva, Jerusalem, Tokyo etc. to the AIWS City for Ukraine.
- Build a digital platform and components of AIWS City for Ukraine: Digital Home, Art and Cultural Institutions, Smart Digital and AI University, Innovation Ecosystem, Smart Healthcare Centers, Markets.
Infrastructure:
- Solutions to reconstruct infrastructures of Ukrainian cities:
- Combine rebuilding cities to optimal and maximize resources, costs.
- BGF connects and calls cities, governments, companies, foundations to support Ukrainian government and cities to reconstruct cities and transportation system of Ukraine.
Projects and Programs for Rebuilding Ukraine:
Phase 1: Civic and Social Engagement
- Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellows for Ukraine
Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation
Develop and support young Ukrainian leaders
- AIWS Leadership for Ukraine
Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation
Educate leaders to lead and rebuild Ukraine
- AIWS University for Ukraine: support Ukrainian students and universities
- Build “Online Center of Knowledge for Innovation” to support Ukraine, build online resources to help connect and guide Ukrainian refugees so that they can quickly rebuild their lives
- Applying AIWS Rewards to recognize contributions of students and scholars to Ukrainian students and universities
Led by Harvard Professor Thomas Patterson, Professor Francesco Lapenta, Former Japanese State Minister Yasuhide Nakayama, Bui Thanh Nhon, Coordinators
- Creating and building global brand names for Ukraine
Advise and help promote PR high quality products and services of Ukraine become global brand names.
Professor John Quelch and Nguyen Anh Tuan, Coordinators
- Building a Digital and AI Platform for Ukrainian cities (AIWS City for Ukraine)
- Every citizen has one digital home, bring gem cities of the world to Ukraine
- Bringing solutions to reconstruct infrastructure of Ukrainian cities
- BGF connects and calls cities, governments, companies, foundations to support
- Ukrainian government and cities to reconstruct cities and transportation system of Ukraine
Led by Governor Michael Dukakis, Prime Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija and BGF CEO Nguyen Anh Tuan, Coordinators
Phase 2: AIWS Government for Ukraine
- Build a “smart” government aided by AI and Digital technologies, guided by concepts of AIWS Government
- Develop the next generation digital public infrastructure, modeled after Estonia and other leading digital government nations
- AIWS Citizen and Information Ecosystem for Ukraine
- Ukraine Community Innovation Ecosystem, including new distributed systems for greater national resilience
- AIWS Financial System, with a reimagined set of tax policies that encourage future growth and prosperity for Ukraine
Led by Jason Furman, Mats Karlsson, Alex Sandy Pentland, Jeff Saviano
Resources for Support of Ukraine
- AIWS Network of distinguished leaders, thinkers, innovators (AIWS.net), AIWS.city and call on companies, universities, foundations, for support
- Connect and invite top universities from across the globe
- Coordinate private companies: Google, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, Apple, EY.
- Encourage Ukrainian students, professors in the US to join to rebuild Ukraine.
- Cooperate with Harvard Shorenstein Center, Niemann Foundation, Berkman Center and MIT Media Lab
- Connect governments to help and support Ukraine to build AIWS Government and AIWS Citizen system.
Send this Report to G7 Summit and call Governments to support Rebuilding Ukraine Program, through German Consul General in Boston
by Editor | Apr 29, 2022 | AIWS City and Rebuilding Ukraine, News
Honoring President Zelensky and all Ukraine people with the World Leader for Peace and Security Award
Conference “Laurel for Peace and Security in Ukraine”
Loeb House, Harvard University, April 29, 2022
Good morning and welcome, distinguished guests and speakers who have gathered today here at Harvard University, and online from around the world, for this important forum to discuss current events and potential future pathways for Ukraine.
I am pleased to announce that this year’s recipient of the Boston Global Forum’s World Leader for Peace and Security Award is Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine and all Ukrainian people. This prestigious Award is given to honor individuals who demonstrate a fierce commitment to peace and justice. In that spirit, we present the award to the Ukraine people who are courageously fighting to preserve their country’s sovereignty.
Trained as a lawyer, though he never practiced law, President Zelensky entered politics from a career in television, winning the presidency in 2019 with 73 percent of the vote. He ran on an anti-corruption platform and promised to bring a negotiated end to the conflict in eastern Ukraine resulting from the Russian takeover of the region in 2014.
He persuaded the Ukrainian parliament to enact laws stripping members of Parliament of legal immunity and banning oligarchs from contributing funds to political candidates. His efforts to get Russia to agree to a just settlement of the conflict in eastern Ukraine did not succeed, but he brokered a ceasefire in 2019 that sharply reduced the violence and tension in the region.
President Zelensky’s finest hour began with the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine two months ago. Using the power of the presidency and through the brilliant use of social media, he has with his words and personal courage inspired Ukrainians against all odds to resist the invasion. No leader in recent times has spoken more powerfully than when President Zelensky, upon being offered safe passage out of the country, said, “The fight is here. I need ammunition, not a ride.”
President Zelensky has been a tireless defender of Ukraine’s territorial integrity, petitioning nation after nation to provide the humanitarian and military assistance that Ukrainians need to save their country.
He has inspired Ukrainians, and people around the world, with his proud defense of his country against tyranny.
He does not come to oversee for his safe, he stands in his country. He inspires Ukrainian people and the world.
Russia claims that it invaded Ukraine to root out its “neo-Nazis.” Ironically, the man who, above all others, has stood in its way is Jewish, with close relatives who perished in the Holocaust. President Zelensky is not only Ukraine’s first Jewish president, he’s the first elected Jewish head of state and head of government of any country, save for Israel.
President Zelensky and the Ukrainian people have made momentous contributions to peace and security in the world in their opposition to the ambitions of Russia’s Putin. Their courageous stand against imperialism and extremist nationalism will give pause to authoritarian leaders in the future.
President Zelensky embodies the desire for peace and security that resides within the heart of so many, and yet would be denied by authoritarian leaders. It gives me great pleasure to be honoring him and all Ukrainian people today with the Boston Global Forum’s World Leader for Peace and Security Award. Honoring President Zelensky and Ukrainian people, BGF has conceived and coordinated today’s program with distinguished leaders, thinkers, innovators to contribute ideas and counsel for the rebuilding of Ukraine.
by Editor | Apr 24, 2022 | Papers & Reports, AIWS City and Rebuilding Ukraine, News
In the special report “Rebuilding Ukraine with Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment,” BGF present applying AIWS City model and concepts to rebuild Ukrainian cities as smart cities after the war.
BGF will:
- Connect historical, traditional cities to AIWS City for Ukraine.
- Build components of AIWS City for Ukraine: AIWS Home for Ukrainian People, AIWS Concert Hall, AIWS Museum, AIWS Gem Town, AIWS University, AIWS Innovation, AIWS Healthcare as a smart healthcare system, AIWS Market.
Professor David Silbersweig, Harvard Medical School, Board Member of BGF, will lead the initiative “Addressing the war-related health crisis and re-building a smart healthcare system for the future,” a part of AIWS Healthcare System for Ukraine.
Governor Michael Dukakis and BGF call distinguished professors, universities, innovators, companies, foundations, and governments to contribute for “Rebuilding Ukraine”.
We welcome students to work with us in this special project.
Please contact by email: [email protected] or [email protected]
by Editor | Apr 24, 2022 | Papers & Reports, Event Updates
Governor Michael Dukakis, Co-founder and Chair of BGF, Nguyen Anh Tuan, Co-founder and CEO of BGF, Harvard and MIT professors who are Board Members of BGF Thomas Patterson, Nazli Choucri, Alex Pentland, David Silbersweig will present two special reports:
- Solutions for peace, security, and territory integrity in Ukraine
- Rebuilding Ukraine with “Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment”
Along with 2 special reports are features and highlights:
Message of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Keynote Speech of Ambassador of Ukraine to the US Oksana Markarova
Latvian President Egils Levits
Riksdag Speaker Andreas Norlen
Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to President Obama, Harvard professor Jason Furman
Please register to join the conference here: https://dukakis.org/news-and-events/boston-global-forum-and-lato-to-host-laurel-for-peace-and-security-in-ukraine-conference/
by Editor | Apr 24, 2022 | AIWS City and Rebuilding Ukraine, News
On April 29, 2022, the Boston Global Forum will honor all Ukrainian people and President Zelensky with the 2022 World Leader for Peace and Security Award and present the Strategy and Plan to rebuild Ukraine.
From pain and destruction, building a beautiful, civilized Ukraine, springing up with vitality
Children shall be educated in quality schools, within an advanced society with kindness, humanity civility, creativity, innovation, equality of opportunities for all people, openness, transparency, intelligence, without corruptions in the government and manipulation of the oligarchs.
Applying the Social Contract for the AI Age and pioneering ideas, concepts of the book Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment to “Remaking Ukraine – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment,” we shall rebuild Ukraine to become an exemplary nation of the Age of Global Enlightenment.
The distinguished contributors of the book include President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, Riksdag Speaker Andreas Norlen, Governor Michael Dukakis, Father of the Internet Vint Cerf, professors Thomas Patterson, Nazli Choucri, Alex Pentland, Judea Pearl, Joseph Nye, Minister Taro Kono, Nguyen Anh Tuan, Ramu Damodaran.
Governor Michael Dukakis and BGF call upon distinguished professors, universities, and innovators, companies, foundations, governments to contribute for “Rebuilding Ukraine”.
We welcome students to work with us in this special project.
Please contact by email: [email protected] or [email protected]
