The World Political Leaders (WPL), the worldwide network of female politicians, honored Former Prime Minister of Peru, Representative of the Boston Global Forum in Peru, with the WPL Trailblazer 2019 Award in recognition for her achievements as Peru´s Prime Minister and carrying out the role of Ombudsman as well.
Established in 2013, the WPL gives the Trailblazer Award to outstanding women political leaders who have made strides toward a society where balance between women and men in politics is the reality. The Boston Global Forum is proud of Prime Minister Beatriz, Representative of the Boston Global Forum in Peru and warmly congratulations her to be worthy of this prestigious recognition.
The BGF also sincerely thank Women Political Leaders organization for this honor and for the incredible contributions made to female participation in politics at global level. This recognition commits her to continue working to ensure the voices of women are heard in politics.
The Women Political Leaders Trailblazer Award 2019 recognizes the achievements of three women Presidents and Prime Ministers. The awards are delivered on the occasion of the Reykjavík Global Forum – Women Leaders which took place on November 18th-20th in Reykjavík, Iceland:
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, President of Mauritius (2015-2018)
Julia Gillard, President of Australia (2010-2013)
Martha Beatriz Merino Lucero, President of Peru (2003)
At Boston Global Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Day Symposium at Harvard University on December 12, 2019, AIWS Innovation Network will be officially launched.
The Network will have 3 core components: 1. AI Innovation, 2. Monitors and Judges, 3. AI for Humanity.
AI Innovation: This component as an Uber model of AI services. The Network will help governments, companies, organizations can find out resource to solve, do their demands in apply AI, develop AI strategies, policies, and AI experts, scholars from universities, companies, organizations to find out each other their AIWS Innovation Network’s app. This App includes:
Demanders: demands from governments, companies, organizations.
Providers: resources from top universities: Harvard, MIT, Tufts, Northeastern, Boston College, Stanford, Berkeley, UCLA, Carnegie Mellon, Dartmouth, Brown, Princeton, Yale, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, Oxford, Cambridge etc. Resources from companies.
Judge: Using AI to umpire, judge conflicts between governments, companies, organizations in benefit, interest, information, data.
This component will be operated by AIWS Young Leaders. AIWS Young Leaders call and support for concepts, standards, norms of the AIWS Social Contract 2020.
Outstanding AIWS Young Leaders will be invited to Harvard to talk at AIWS Summit Conference late April every year.
AIWS Young Leaders will be get rewards for their contribution: give them points Social Value Reward, using measurement of Professor Alex Pentland, and AIWS Innovation Network will make deals exchange points with companies, service providers, schools.
AI for Humanity: Creative, Innovative works in applying AI for humanity. Develop recommendations for the use of AI for public good.
This would complement the current AIWS/BGF work that is developing ethics and cybersecurity calls to action to counteract the negative, manipulative, surveillance, micro-targeting use of AI.
It could focus on ways to reach, connect and co-create with people and groups to enhance positive wellbeing and interactions, and peaceful and enduring solutions.
This component is a place to introduce products, apps using AI for a better society.
Any AI experts, innovators have products meet AIWS Innovation Network requirements can introduce and list on this Component.
Government of Massachusetts and MIT Connection Science are sponsors of The AIWS Innovation Network.
The World Leadership Alliance – Club de Madrid (WLA-CdM), a global assembly of over 110 democratic former Heads of State and Government from over 60 countries, convened its Annual Policy Dialogue in Madrid on 21-22 October 2019.
Digital transformation, particularly the use of artificial intelligence, is posing new risks for democracy around the world. Fundamental rights related to privacy and security, freedom and non-discrimination are challenged by the large-scale collection and use of personal data for advertising, communication and automated decision-making purposes. Rising inequalities and the changing panorama of employment in the data economy are demanding a redefinition of the social contract, while technological giants are gaining leverage as curators of public spaces without democratic accountability. For most citizens, it is also becoming harder to know and trust democratic institutions, as information manipulation, bots and algorithmic filters are increasingly distorting the picture of society that reaches them through digital media.
Yet, digital transformation also provides powerful tools to build better democracy. Guided by adequate values, and goals, new technologies can enable the provision of improved public services, including health care and education, that respond to fundamental rights and increase quality of life. The data economy is facilitating the customization of employment, empowering diversity and enabling mobility. Access to information through digital technologies can also empower citizens and strengthen democratic accountability. But harnessing the potential of digital transformation as a force for the global democratic good requires strategic policy action. It befalls public powers to put in place regulatory frameworks and policy measures that will ensure transparency in the use of digital technologies and accountability for the decisions guided by artificial intelligence systems.
The Annual Policy Dialogue afforded us an opportunity to gather the thoughts of over 100 renowned experts, policy makers and industry leaders. They distilled the implications of digital transformation and artificial intelligence for fundamental rights, the future of the social contract in the data economy, and trust and public debate in the face of disinformation.
Boston Global Forum is pioneering with the AIWS Social Contract 2020 to solve the issue of “the future of the social contract.” Professor Alex Sandy Pentland introduced and President of Bosnia Herzegovina Zlatko Lagumdžija discussed the AIWS Social Contract 2020 at this event.
The United Nations will mark its hundredth year in 2045. This series will address issues that will help define the world as it will exist at the UN’s centennial. How will AI (Artificial Intelligence) shape the world and how can the UN direct the development of AI to promote a safer and more prosperous world? What are the challenges of the AI Age to peace, security, human values, and international norms? How can the UN play an enlarged role in forging a better world? Are there ways that citizens can contribute through the UN? Such questions and others will be examined in the United Nations Centennial Series, which will feature articles by distinguished thinkers and leaders.
Governor Michael Dukakis, President Vaira Vike-Freiberga, father of the Internet Vint Cerf, Professor Alex Sandy Pentland, Professor Nazli Choucri, and other great figures are confirmed to contribute to this series. Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, co-founder and CEO of the Boston Global Forum, is named as the curator of United Nations Centennial Series.
Artificial intelligence is redefining the very meaning of being an enterprise. The rapidly advancing artificial intelligence (AI) capability is on its way to revolutionizing every aspect of an enterprise. The ability to access data has leveled the playing field and brought every enterprise a unique possibility of progress. What needs to be seen is in this level playing field, which enterprises will be able to compete and lay a new foundation for fundamental transformation and which ones will decline.
Enterprises across industries are undergoing a profound and lasting shift in the relative balance of AI adoption. AI application will offer each enterprise as many opportunities as it does challenges. While access to technology, data, and information is common to all enterprises, what is not common is how each enterprise uses that information—and for what reason. While AI has given enterprises across industries and nations the same starting point in access to AI technology, it is crucial to understand the parameters that will define their individual and collective success.
The potential of Enterprise AI can transform the enterprise ecosystem in many ways. From decision making to supply chain intelligence and tracking capabilities to the automation of business processes, AI can change the entire enterprise ecosystem across CAGS. The time is now to understand its risks and rewards. According to AI impact to society, the Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation (MDI) also established the Artificial Intelligence World Society (AIWS) to share its commitment to the constructive and development of AI for mitigating risks and enhancing transparency as well as ethical values.
Intel Corp. is turning its attention to the convergence of high-performance computing and artificial intelligence (AI) with the launch late today of a new general-purpose graphics processing unit that’s optimized for both types of workloads.
In addition, Intel announced its oneAPI initiative, which aims to provide a simpler programming model for developing HPC and AI applications that can run on any kind of architecture, including GPUs, central processing units, field-programmable gate arrays and neural network processors.
Announced at the Supercomputing 2019 event in Colorado today, the new Ponte Vecchio discrete GPUs are built on Intel’s Xe architecture using its most advanced seven-nanometer process and have been designed especially for HPC and AI training workloads.
“Several years ago, Intel saw the need to develop one graphics architecture to scale up from traditional GPU workloads to the new HPC/exascale/AI and deep learning training,” Ari Rauch, vice president and general manager of Intel’s Visual Technologies Team and Graphics Business, said in a press briefing.
According to Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation (MDI), AI technology and application can be a force for relieving us of resource constraints, arbitrary/inflexible rules and processes to solve important issues, such as SDGs.
On the first Global Cybersecurity Day on December 12, 2015, the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sent the statement of congratulations. Here is his letter.
Ban Ki-moon was honored with the World Leaders for Peace and Security Award 2016.
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Message to the Boston Global Forum
Boston, 12 December 2015
It is a pleasure to greet the Boston Global Forum. Thank you, Governor Dukakis, for convening this gathering and for guiding its initiatives.
I welcome your focus on cybersecurity.
Advances in technology and science have opened up wonderful new opportunities, but they have also exposed us to new risks. As our lives have moved increasingly online, so, too, must our values and principles.
Cybersecurity has become a major global challenge, with wide-ranging implications for peace, security, trade and sustainable development. The United Nations has recognized the need to confront the threats that arise from the use of ICTs and the Internet for purposes that are inconsistent with the objectives of the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Member States have been working to develop a global culture of cybersecurity that can fight cybercrime and cyber-attacks while protecting freedoms and sharing the benefits of ICTs and the Internet.
Cybersecurity will also be crucial as we implement the recently adopted 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which will require us to tap into the potential of the data revolution and close today’s still-large digital divides.
On 15-16 December, the United Nations General Assembly will convene a High-level Meeting to review progress in the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society. Your discussion at this year’s Boston Global Forum can provide a timely contribution as we strive together to meet these challenges.
Thank you for your support, and please accept my best wishes for a productive Forum.
The AIWS Innovation Network will be officially launched on Global Cybersecurity Day Symposium December 12, 2019 at Loeb House, Harvard University. Professor Wilson, a Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellow, a founding member of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern, Berkman Klein Fellow of Harvard Law School, will lead the section to monitor and audit governments and companies in ethics, norms, and standards of AI, and the AIWS Social Contract 2020. He presented the ideas for this in AIWS Conference September 23, 2019 at Harvard University Faculty Club. With purpose to alarm governments and companies that violate norms, standards, and the AIWS Social Contract 2020, this section will contribute reports and call for actions to maintain norms of the AIWS Social Contract 2020 as framework for peace, and security in Digital Age.
Governor Michael Dukakis, Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, and Professors Alex Pentland (MIT), Nazli Choucri (MIT), David Silbersweig (Harvard), Thomas Patterson (Harvard) are co-founders of the AIWS Innovation Network. The Network is sponsored by MIT Connection Science and the Massachusetts Government.
Minister Taro Kono will speak “On a Vison for Ensuring Trusted Data for use by the Japanese Government” at Global Cybersecurity Day Symposium, 8:30 am – 12:00 pm, December 12, 2019 at Loeb House, Harvard University.
Boston Global Forum created the Annual Global Cybersecurity Day in 2015. Every year, on December 12, Boston Global Forum will organize a Global Cybersecurity Day Symposium with topics about cybersecurity and data safety.
This year, the topic is Enhancing Cybersecurity in AI World Society.
Global Cybersecurity Day is meant to inspire the shared responsibility of the world’s citizens to protect the Internet’s safety and transparency. As a part of this initiative, Boston Global Forum (BGF) also calls upon citizens of goodwill everywhere — from ordinary people to leaders — to follow BGF’s Ethics Code of Conduct for Cyber Peace and Security (ECCC).
BGF includes, among others, scholars, business leaders and journalists, and is chaired by former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, a national and international civic leader and BGF’s co-founder.
At the Annual Global Cybersecurity Day Symposium, BGF also celebrates and presents the World Leader for Peace and Security Award. This year, President of Latvia and the World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, is honored as a World Leader for Peace and Security.
