by Editor | Aug 1, 2021 | News
Ruth Pearl, the mother of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl who turned the profound and lasting agony of losing a son into a life of activism, outreach and bridging cultural divides, has died at her home in Los Angeles.
Pearl, who died July 20, had been suffering from pulmonary difficulties. She was 85.
Mrs. Pearl, who was born in Iraq, was a retired software developer living in Los Angeles when Daniel, 38, The Journal’s South Asia bureau chief, was kidnapped while reporting in Karachi. Despite pleas from his parents and desperate efforts to win his release by the U.S. government, his kidnappers beheaded him on Feb. 1, 2002, recording a video of his last words — “My father’s Jewish, my mother’s Jewish, I’m Jewish.”
She was the wife of Professor Judea Pearl, a mentor and leader of Section “Modern Causal Inference” of AIWS.net and 2020 World Leader in AIWS Award. He is a distinguished contributor to the book “Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment”.
Judea Pearl said his wife was a fast and firm believer in the pressing need to bridge cultural differences.
“I worry about the next generation,” Ruth Pearl told The Times in 2007. “If we don’t address this now, what will become of us? What will become of our children?”
Boston Global Forum and AIWS.net send our deep condolences to Professor Judea Pearl.
by Editor | Aug 1, 2021 | News
Club de Madrid and its members support Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment, its core concepts are the Social Contract for the AI Age, AI International Accord, Global Alliance for Digital Governance, AI World Society (AIWS) Ecosystem, and AIWS City.
Former PM Zlatko Lagumdzija, a distinguished contributor of the book and member of Club de Madrid, will bring a plan for former presidents, former prime ministers of democratic nations to get their supports and advices, especially in Global Alliance for Digital Governance.
They are core of global enlightenment community at AIWS City to inspire practice of AIWS Values for Remaking the World.
A 5-year Partnership (2021 – 2026), BGF and Club de Madrid will collaborate to implement concepts and principles of the book. In 2021, the book will be presented and introduced at the Online BGF – Club de Madrid Policy Lab on September 7-9 and at Club de Madrid’s Policy Dialog in Washington DC On October 27-28.
BGF and Club de Madrid call and encourage people to join this program through initiatives, solutions, and action plans.
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by Editor | Aug 1, 2021 | News
AIWS City is honored to implement and develop concepts from Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment.
Distinguished Contributors are the core of global enlightenment community. They are
Shinzō Abe, Prime Minister of Japan (9/2006-9/2007, 12/2012-9/2020), 2015 World Leader for Peace and Security Award.
Ashton Carter, Former U.S. Secretary of Defense, Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Belfer Professor of Technology and Global Affairs, Harvard University.
Vint Cerf, “Father of the Internet”, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google, Co-author of Social Contract for the AI Age, 2019 World Leader in AI Society Award.
Nazli Choucri, Professor of Political Science, MIT, Boston Global Forum Board Member.
Ramu Damodaran, Chief of the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI), Co-Chair of the United Nations Centennial – BGF and UNAI Initiative in Honor of the United Nations 2045 Centenary.
Michael Dukakis, Former Governor of Massachusetts, Chairman of the Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation, Co-Founder and Chairman of the Boston Global Forum, Co-Founder of the AI World Society.
Eva Kaili, Member of the European Parliament, Chair of the European Parliament’s Science and Technology Options Assessment Panel (STOA), Chair of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence (C4AI), Head of the Hellenic S&D delegation.
Robin Kelly, U.S. Representative (D-IL 2nd District), Vice Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations (1/1/2007 – 31/12/2016), Lead the UNESCO Global Education First Initiative, 2016 World Leader for Peace and Security Award.
Didzis Kļaviņš, Senior Researcher, University of Latvia.
Taro Kono, Japanese Minister of Defense (9/2019 – 9/2020), Member of the House of Representatives, Japan.
Zlatko Lagumdžija, Former Prime Minister and Former Foreign Minister of Bosnia-Herzegovina, World Leadership Alliance – Club de Madrid (WLA-CdM) Member, Member of the History of AI Board, AIWS.
Stavros Lambrinidis, Ambassador of the European Union to the United States, 2021 World Leader in AI World Society Award.
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, 2020 World Leader for Peace and Security Award.
Yasuhide Nakayama, Japanese Defense State Minister, Member of the House of Representatives, Japan, Head of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party’s Foreign Affairs Division, Mentor of AIWS.net.
Paul Nemitz, Director for Fundamental Rights and Union citizenship in the Directorate-General for JUSTICE of the European Commission, co-author of the AIWS-G7 Summit Initiative 2019.
Nguyễn Anh Tuấn, CEO of the Boston Global Forum, Director of the Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation, Co-Founder of the AI World Society, Founder and former Editor in Chief of VietNamNet.
Andreas Norlen, Speaker of the Swedish Parliament.
Joseph Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus and former Dean of the Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Member of Boston Global Forum’s Board of Thinkers.
Žaneta Ozoliņa, professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Latvia and the Director at the Centre for International Politics, Chairwoman of the Latvian Transatlantic Organization.
Thomas Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, Harvard University, Research Director of The Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation, Co-founder of the Boston Global Forum.
Judea Pearl, Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Cognitive Systems Lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, recipient of the A.M. Turing Award, 2020 World Leader in AI World Society Award.
Alex Pentland, the Toshiba Professor at MIT, Director, MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics lab, Co-author of Social Contract for the AI Age.
Iain Duncan Smith, Conservative Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, 6th President of Latvia (1999-2007), President of World Leadership Alliance – Club de Madrid (WLA-CdM) 2013-2019, 2019 World Leader for Peace and Security Award.
The Global Enlightenment Community, with members of AIWS City, will contribute through AIWS Innovations and AIWS University. Their distinguished contribution will be recognized at the AIWS House of Honor.
by Editor | Aug 1, 2021 | News
On July 30, 2021, key coordinators of Global Alliance for Digital Governance (GADG) met to define core works and plans of GADG 2021 – 2022. Professor Nazli Choucri (MIT), MEP Eva Kaili, Zlatko Lagumdzija (former PM of Bosnia and Herzegovina), Paul Nemitz (Principal Advisor of European Commission), and Nguyen Anh Tuan (CEO of Boston Global Forum) discussed and contributed significant works and preparation for the Policy Lab “Fundamental Rights in AI & Digital Societies: Towards an International Accord”, co-organized by Boston Global Forum and Club de Madrid for September 7-9.
One of the most important decisions in the GADG Coordinator meeting was to build a system which monitor governments and companies. This Monitor System can view violations of ethical values and standards of the Social Contract for the AI Age and AI International Accord by governments and large organizations. The platform will alert against the misuse of Artificial Intelligence (AI), personal data, and negligence of cybersecurity. Its name is the GADG Monitor, and it will be introduced at the BGF-Club de Madrid Policy Lab on September 7-9.
Club de Madrid and Boston Global Forum will collaborate in building and developing the Global Alliance for Digital Governance.
by Editor | Aug 1, 2021 | Event Updates
Dates: September 7-9, 2021
Co-organizers: Club de Madrid and Boston Global Forum
Paul Twomey served from 2003 to 2010 as the President and CEO of ICANN, a role which the New York Times described as “the Chief Operating Officer of the Internet”. He will speak at Plenary I of the Policy Lab together with Paul Nemitz, Principal Advisor of the European Commission, and two members of Club de Madrid, Hanna Suchocka of Poland and Carl Bildt of Sweden.
Plenary I: Setting the context for a rights-based international accord
Panelists:
- Paul Twomey, Fellow and Core Theme Leader at the Global Solutions Initiative; Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation; Commissioner of the Global Commission for Internet Governance and former CEO of ICANN
- Jerry Jones, Advisor of CdM, Executive Vice-President, Ethics and Legal Officer, Live Ramp
- Paul Nemitz, Principal Advisor in the Directorate General for Justice and Consumers at the European Commission
- Hanna Suchocka, Prime Minister of Poland (1992-1993), Member of Club de Madrid
- Carl Bildt, Prime Minister of Sweden (1991-1994), Member of Club de Madrid
