by Editor | Jan 9, 2022 | Event Updates
At 9:00 AM, January 17, 2022, Professor Thomas Patterson, co-founder of Boston Global Forum, Research Director of Michael Dukakis Institute, will give a lecture for the AI World Society Leadership Program 2021-2022.
The goal of our AIWS Leadership Program is to help students understand changing technology and its implications. We’ve created a series of lectures that address major features of the digital age and the challenges and opportunities they present.
Each of our presenters is a thought leader in the field of digital technology. They come from some of the world’s top institutions, including Harvard, MIT, and Stanford. And nearly all of them have spent time in the private sector or government service. They will share with you their high-level practical experience, as well as their scholarly knowledge.
Each lecture is directed at the needs of the innovative leader and thinker – what you will need to know to successfully navigate the challenges and opportunities of the Digital Age.
One of our initiatives is a Social Contract for the AI Age. In this effort, we’ve worked closely with the United Nations Academic Impact Program and with the Club de Madrid, which is the organization of former heads of state and heads of government of democratic countries.
Our Social Contract defines what we see as the rights, obligations, and responsibilities of individuals, governments, firms, and other entities in the digital age.
By definition, a social contract is based on the rights and interests of individuals, and what governments and other entities must do and are prohibited from doing to safeguard those rights and interests.
by Editor | Jan 2, 2022 | News, AIWS and the Age of Global Enlightenment
Members of Global Enlightenment Community, such as President Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Prime Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija, father of Internet Vint Cerf, and CEO of BGF Nguyen Anh Tuan, spoke at the Global Baku Forum “The World after COVID-19”
The VIII Global Baku Forum, November 4-6, 2021, attracts great attention and interest of world leaders. At the opening ceremony, addresses were heard from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Latvian President Egils Levits, Moldovan Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita, Pope Francis, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, former UK Prime Minister, UN Special Envoy for Global Education and World Health Organization, Ambassador for Global Health Gordon Brown and other dignitaries.
The EU was a visionary creation that managed to transform the relations between deadly antagonists into peaceful partners, e.g. France and Germany. It expanded the fruitful collaborations among its members, and increased its membership enhancing peace and prosperity across the continent.
- Can the EU design a unified foreign and defense posture vis-a-vis the rapidly changing world order?
- Can the European parliament become a viable forum for formulating policies that would be binding on all the member countries?
- Can the EU design policies that would resolve favorably the current crises that exist in Europe: e.g. South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Ukraine and Crimea? Or to define policies on such non-consensual issues as immigration?
- Can the EU manage the issues raised by the policies of some of its member states, e.g. Hungary under Viktor Orban?
- Can the EU resolve the remaining issues of the BREXIT decisions?
- How will the EU define it relations with Russia post- Crimea?
Moderator:
– Vaira Vike-Freiberga, President of Latvia 1999-2007; Co-Chair, NGIC (TBC)
Speakers:
– Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, President of Croatia 2015-2020
– Yves Leterme, Prime Minister of Belgium 2008, 2009-2011
– Matteo Renzi, Prime Minister of Italy 2014-2016 (Digital Speaker)
– Emil Constantinescu, President of Romania 1996-2000
– Nguyen Anh Tuan, Co-Founder and CEO, Boston Global Forum
by Editor | Jan 2, 2022 | Event Updates, News, Boston Global Forum Awards
Speaker of the Riksdag, Andreas Norlen, received the World Leader for Peace and Security Award 2021 at the Symposium “Framework for Global Law and Accord on AI and Digital” on December 12, 2021. The World Leader for Peace and Security Award 2015 recipient, former PM Shinzo Abe, presented a speech at this event as well.
Andreas Norlen said:” I want to start by thanking Governor Michael Dukakis and Boston Global Forum for selecting me for the World Leader for Peace and Security Award 2021. I am honoured and proud both for the award and for the opportunity to address you today. Your organisation plays an important role in working for a more peaceful and secure world, for instance by raising both the potentials and risks of artificial intelligence and other digital technologies. Your initiative on Global Law and Accord on AI and Digital is timely and important.”
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe presented his special speech at the Boston Global Forum Symposium “Framework for Global Law and Accord on AI and Digital” on December 12, 2021.
After noting threats and dangers from AI and Digital to peace and security in the world, he highlighted: There are nations that plan to spread disinformation through deep fakes, inciting and brainwashing their citizens.
To solve these issues, he stated “we need to think outside the box.”
by Editor | Jan 2, 2022 | Global Law and Accord on AI and Digital, News
Stavros Lambrinidis, European Union Ambassador to the United States, received the “World Leader in AI World Society Award,” at 8:30 AM, Wednesday, April 28, 2021 from Governor Michael Dukakis.
The award honors Ambassador Lambrinidis for his contribution to strengthening security and fundamental freedoms on the Internet and for fostering Artificial Intelligence democracy worldwide.
Ambassador Lambrinidis, who served as Vice President of the European Parliament and as the EU’s Special Representative for Human Rights and has long been active on data privacy issues, will talk about opportunities for transatlantic collaboration on the digital economy and AI in his brief remarks at the upcoming award ceremony.
The Framework for the Artificial Intelligence International Accord, developed by the Boston Global Forum in collaboration with AIWS distinguished thinkers, was discussed immediately following the ceremony honoring Ambassador Lambrinidis 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM, April 28, 2021.
http://bostonglobalforum.org/bgf2022/world-leader-award-and-honorees/michael-dukakis-institute-to-honor-stavros-lambrinidis-eu-ambassador-to-the-us-on-april-28-for-promoting-internet-security-freedom-and-ai-democracy/
http://bostonglobalforum.org/bgf2022/world-leader-award-and-honorees/acceptance-speech-ambassador-stavros-lambrinidis/
by Editor | Jan 2, 2022 | Papers & Reports, Event Updates, News
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS IN AI & DIGITAL SOCIETIES:
TOWARDS AN INTERNATIONAL ACCORD
Club de Madrid and Boston Global Forum (BGF) have partnered to narrow this gap between the digital and the policy world. Our joint Policy Lab aims to build consensus around a rights-based agenda for the global governance of AI and digital societies.
The international community has so far failed to adopt a common governance model of digital technologies and AI based on human rights, despite several attempts to articulate such principles. This Policy Lab will serve to identify ideas and policy recommendations that can serve to build consensus around a rights-based agenda for the governance of AI and digital societies as we seek to narrow the gap between the digital and the policy world.
Drawing on the proposals of the AIWS Social Contract 2020 the United Nations Centennial “Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment” and with the unique individual and collective leadership experience of Club de Madrid Members, the Policy Lab delved into:
-Transatlantic approaches to protect fundamental rights in AI & digital spaces.
-The elements & process for an international legal framework to protect fundamental rights in AI & digital spaces, towards an AI international accord.
-The Concept and Ecosystem for Digital and AI Society.
-The Global Alliance for Digital Governance
Aside from Boston Global Forum thinkers and Club de Madrid Members, the Policy Lab also gathered representatives of governments, academic institutions and think tanks, tech companies, and civil society. The outcome —a set of policy recommendations on building an international legal framework to protect fundamental rights in AI and digital spaces— will be shared with national governments and decision-makers in multilateral organisations, amongst others, so as to better inform the debate. With their agency and global reach, Members of Club de Madrid are uniquely placed to pull the levers of change and advocate for an international accord that protects fundamental rights in AI and digital spaces.
Club de Madrid and the Boston Global Forum’s five-year plan to advocate for a rights-based approach to the age of AI for Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment.
https://www.clubmadrid.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Policy-Lab-2021-Fundamental-Rights-In-AI-Digital-Societies-ReportAnnex.pdf
