by Editor | Nov 8, 2020 | News
To promote and support resolutions for world peace and security, the Boston Global Forum conceived the idea to organize Quad Roundtable. The Quad Roundtable will include leaders from the US, Japan, Australia, and India to discuss challenges and solutions for world peace and security. The Quad Roundtable can contribute urgent suggestions to governments of the US, Japan, Australia and India.
The first Quad Roundtable is co-organized with the Latvian Transatlantic Organisation (LATO) as a special side event at the Riga Conference 2020, at 7:30 am – 9:30 am EST, November 12, 2020.
In this first Quad Roundtable, the keynote speakers are Governor Michael Dukakis, Chairman of the Boston Global Forum (USA), Yasuhide Nakayama, Defense State Minister (Japan), Senator Kimberley Kitching, Chair of Foreign Affair, Defence and Trade Reference Committee (Australia), Ambassador P.S Raghavan, Chairman of the National Security Advisory Board (India). The Roundtable will discuss “the Quad Group, AIWS Social Contract and solutions for world peace and security”.
Professor Nazli Choucri, (MIT), co-founder of AIWS.net, will present the Social Contract for the AI Age. Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO of the Boston Global Forum, will introduce next steps of the Quad Roundtable.
by Editor | Nov 8, 2020 | News
On November 11, 2020, at 07:45 ICT (19:45 EST), Chairman of the Novaland Group Bui Thanh Nhon will meet Governor Michael Dukakis, co-founder and Chairman of Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation, to discuss building AIWS Square, the History of AI House, Michael Dukakis House, Vint Cerf House, and AIWS Leadership Education Program at NovaWorld Phan Thiet, and plan to connect NovaWorld Phan Thiet to the AIWS City in 2021.
Novaland Group has built a World’s Beach City for Wellness, an attractive destination for vacation called NovaWorld Phan Thiet. NovaWorld Phan Thiet is a gem, an urban coastal city, a vacation land and a modern working city with all the requirements to become an ideal destination for world leaders, creators, innovators, and scholars.
Chairman Bui Thanh Nhon said, “We are proud to cooperate with the AIWS City to create NovaWorld Phan Thiet, a city of history, intelligence, and humanity, connecting with other intellectual, cultural and innovative centers around the world, with the standards of the Social Contract in the AI Age, adhering to AIWS City”.
Phan Thiet is a well-known city with blue ocean, white sands, bright sunshine, and modern infrastructure, connecting the region to cities around the world with an international airport, seaports, and highways. Phan Thiet city is also famous for the unique culture and history of the Champa people. Phan Thiet is only 160 km from Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. Phan Thiet provides all the conditions to be a world destination. With the available advantages of this city, Novaland Group has built a World’s Beach City for Wellness, an attractive destination for vacation called NovaWorld Phan Thiet.
by Editor | Nov 8, 2020 | Event Updates
The Quad Roundtable is a special side event of the Rīga Conference 2020, Session Quad Roundtable” the Quad Group, AIWS Social Contract and solutions for world peace and security”, co-organized by the Latvian Transatlantic Organisation (LATO) and the Boston Global Forum (BGF).
The Quadrilateral Initiative – informally named the Quad – first began in May 2007 with a meeting between the US, Japan, India and Australia in the Philippine capital Manila.
The informal grouping, championed by Japan’s then prime minister Shinzo Abe, was viewed by analysts as an attempt to step up co-operation in the face of a rapidly rising China.
Prime Minister Suga told reporters he would seek to “promote a free and open Indo-Pacific” and also “build stable relations with neighbouring countries including China and Russia”. So when Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo greeted each other in front of a bank of American and Japanese flags on October 6, 2020 in Tokyo, they exchanged what was surely the longest fist bump in their nations’ seven-decade alliance, a nearly 15-second joining of knuckles.
On 16-18, September, the World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid and the Boston Global Forum co-organized the Policy Lab “Transatlantic Approaches on Digital Governance: A New Social Contract in the Age of AI”, in which presidents, prime ministers, distinguished thinkers, and scholars discussed the Social Contract for the AI Age, and saw it as significant standards for world politics and economy in the 21st century.
How can the Quad Group support and maintain peace and security? What is the role of each member?
How can the Quad contribute to peace and security in the European, Atlantic, and Baltic regions?
How can democratic governments support and use the Social Contract for the AI Age as standards for international relations and for peace and security?
How can democratic governments recognize and implement the Social Contract for the AI Age?
14:30-14:40 Opening Remarks
Sandis Šrāders, Member of the Board of the Latvian Transatlantic Organisation
14:35-14:40
Social Contract for the AI Age, presenter Professor Nazli Choucri (MIT)
14:40-15:00
Speech of Governor Michael Dukakis, Chairman of the Boston Global Forum (US)
15:00-15:20
Yasuhide Nakayama, Defense State Minister (Japan)
15:20-15:40
Senator Kimberley Kitching, Chair of Foreign Affair, Defence and Trade Reference Committee (Australia)
15:40-16:00
Ambassador P.S Raghavan, Chairman of the National Security Advisory Board (India)
16:00-16:25 Q&A Session
16:25-16.30 Concluding
Sandis Šrāders, Member of the Board of the Latvian Transatlantic Organisation
16:30- 16:40 Thank you and next steps,
Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO of the Boston Global Forum, Co-Founder of the AI World Society Innovation Network
by Editor | Nov 1, 2020 | News
Greece honored Mike Dukakis with Order of Honor of the Grand Commander on Saturday October 24. The award ceremony took place in the yard of the home of Michael Dukakis in the town of Brookline, Massachusetts. Ambassador of Greece to the United States Alexandra Papadopoulou presented Michael Dukakis with the award on behalf of the President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou.
Deputy Foreign Minister Kostas Vlassis participated in the ceremony via internet and in his speech he congratulated Dukakis on his services in political life and in the Greek-American community, as well as for his support of Greek National Issues. He also stressed that his overall career in U.S. public life, always keeping his eyes on Greece, was an example to be imitated and a source of inspiration for the younger generations of Greek-Americans, according to an announcement by the deputy minister’s office.
Dukakis is the longest-serving governor in Massachusetts history and was nominated by the Democratic Party for president in 1988. As a member of the Greek-American Community, he carried out important charitable, social and educational activities.
The original article can be read here.
Governor Michael Dukakis is a co-founder and the Chairman of the Boston Global Forum, AIWS.net, and AIWS City.
by Editor | Nov 1, 2020 | Event Updates
Leaders of AIWS City, including Professor Alex Sandy Pentland (MIT), Professor Nazli Choucri (MIT) and Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan (Boston Global Forum), spoke at World Leadership Alliance – Club de Madrid (WLA-CdM) Policy Dialog October 28-30, 2020. The Boston Global Forum supported WLA-CdM Policy Dialog 2020, and the Call to Action below:
The world is again at a crossroad, confronted with a danger of sliding into a downward spiral of unbridled contest and power politics. But there is an alternative. We must seize this moment to set the world on a new path, a path that will end the assault threatening the foundations of our very existence, particularly that of the most vulnerable amongst us. We have to craft a path that will lead us to an equitable, secure and sustainable system of global cooperation and renewed multilateral institutions, fit for purpose in the 21st century and resilient against future disasters.
- Multilateral cooperation is not an option, it is essential to the preservation of our societal values and the resolution of transnational challenges related to peace and security; economic and financial stability and growth; ecological sustainability, digital transformation; trade; pandemics and others.
- Humankind is capable of transcending existing challenges building bridges, re-establishing trust and working actively and responsibly to manage systemic global risks and transnational challenges to protect the Global Commons.
- Multilateral institutions require increased participation, inclusion, local ownership and capacity of all, from those most impacted by global challenges on the ground to civil society, labor unions, the private sector, State and non-State actors, all the way to the Security Council.
- A forward-looking, viable and people-centered strategy of pragmatic dialogue,solidarity and trust are crucial for a reinvigorated, inclusive and effective multilateralism.
- We will advocate for the needed reforms constructively, decisively and persistently until the multilateral system is transformed into a more responsive framework fit for 21st century purpose.
The full Call to Action can be read here.
