India Should Strive To Become Software Hub, Focus On Democratising Government Data: President Droupadi Murmu

by Editor | Jan 9, 2023 | Global Alliance for Digital Governance

After proving its poweress in the field of software, India should strive to become a hub for software products, President Droupadi Murmu said on Saturday.

While speaking at the 7th edition of Digital India Awards, Murmu said that there should focus on democratising government data to help technology enthusiasts in the country develop localised digital solutions.

“We should leverage the prevailing policies and avail the ecosystem to position the country as a global powerhouse of software and hardware products by building made in India technology,” Murmu said.

She said India has emerged as an important country for use of technology for people-centric governance, especially during the pandemic, which has benefitted the rest of the world as well.

“Digital India is also playing an important role in enhancing the country’s profile on the world stage. This becomes all the more relevant as India takes over the presidency of G20 which is a milestone event,” Murmu said.

India formally assumed the G20 Presidency on December 1, 2022.

The Global Alliance for Digital Governance (GADG) considers India as a vital pillar for peace and security together with the US, EU, and Japan. With “AIWS Actions to create an Age of Global Enlightenment,” in 2023 BGF will organize a high-level meeting of BGF leaders, contributors, and leaders of partners, alliances of BGF with government, congress, and big tech, big companies, top universities of India to discuss about Global Enlightenment Economy models, Global Enlightenment Education.

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Boston Business Journal: “Dukakis, Tuan, Pentland: AI ‘bill of rights’ must be global”

by Editor | Jan 1, 2023 | Global Alliance for Digital Governance

By Michael Dukakis, Nguyen Anh Tuan, Alex Pentland

Dec 30, 2022

Artificial intelligence (AI) and automated systems are increasingly affecting our daily lives. Banking algorithms decide who is eligible for housing or loans, healthcare algorithms are making decisions on coverage and standards of care. Companies are using hiring algorithms to sort resumes. While all of these innovations make life more convenient, they pose risks to the public and are often rife with bias and discrimination.

In October, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights.” As leaders of the Boston Global Forum, we applaud President Biden and the OSTP for advancing this important measure, which protects people from threats and defines guardrails on technology to reinforce civil rights, civil liberties and privacy, and equal opportunities ensuring access to critical resources and services.

The blueprint outlines common-sense protections with respect to AI:

• It shouldn’t discriminate;
• It shouldn’t violate data privacy;
• We should know when AI is being used;
• We should be able to opt out and talk to a human when we encounter a problem.

It’s not binding legislation, but rather a set of recommendations for government agencies and technology companies using AI. It’s also a great tool to educate the public as well as organizations responsible for protecting and advancing our civil rights and civil liberties.

On the world stage, bad actors in other nations are increasingly using AI to spread disinformation and propaganda through deep fakes and other manipulated media.

Last year, the Boston Global Forum and World Leadership Alliance — Club de Madrid brought prominent international leaders together to explore ideas and strategies and for a Global Law and Accord on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Rights.

The group established the Global Alliance for Digital Governance (GADG) to coordinate resources among governments, international organizations, corporations, think tanks, civil society and influencers for AI and a digital sphere for good, to make the resources more effective to synthesize and maximize their impact. It is not an organization, but rather, a network for sharing resources and cooperating among governments. At the core of this initiative is to establish a common understanding of policy and practice, anchored in general principles to help maximize the “good” and minimize the “bad” associated with AI:

1. Fairness and justice for all: The first principle is already agreed upon in the international community as a powerful aspiration. All entities – private and public – should treat, and be treated, with fairness and justice.
2. Responsibility and accountability for policy and decision making — private and public: The second principle recognizes the power of the new global ecology that will increasingly span all entities worldwide—private and public, developing and developed.
3. Precautionary principle for innovations and applications: The third principle is to support innovation. It does not push for regulation but supports initiatives to explore the unknown with care and caution.
4. Ethics-in-AI: Fourth is the principle of ethical integrity. At issue is incorporating the cultural commonalities into a global ethical system for all phases, innovations, and manifestations of artificial intelligence.

Without adequate guidelines and useful directives, the undisciplined use of AI poses risks to the wellbeing of individuals and creates fertile ground for economic, political, social, and criminal exploitation. As we gain consensus on principles and practices among members of the global society, we will generate and enhance social benefits and well-being for all, shared by all.

Michael Dukakis is the former governor of Massachusetts and chairman of the Boston Global Forum. Nguyen Anh Tuan is CEO of the Boston Global Forum. MIT Professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland is a contributor to the book “Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment” and a board member of the UN global partnership for sustainable development data.

https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2022/12/30/dukakis-tuan-pentland-an-ai-bill-of-rights-must.html

Nomination for the History of AI 2022: Manifesto “AIWS Actions to create an Age of Global Enlightenment”

by Editor | Dec 25, 2022 | Global Alliance for Digital Governance

The Manifesto “AIWS Actions to create an Age of Global Enlightenment” was presented and discussed at the BGF 10th Anniversary Conference on November 22, 2022. On behalf of Boston Global Forum leaders, Prime Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija and Nguyen Anh Tuan gave a speech on the Manifesto with the following highlights:

I. Fundamentals and Accompanying the United Nations:
Creating an Age of Global Enlightenment is based on the AIWS model whose core and pillars
were introduced in the book “Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global
Enlightenment”.

1. Global Enlightenment Economy and Politics:
Every person can be an innovator with foundation standards are Social Contract for the AI Age.
Building a borderless data infrastructure, creating opportunities for all individuals, businesses, and organizations to co-create new values, new products and services that are prosperous, high efficiency, faster, smarter, but protecting the standards and human values of the United Nations, of the Social Contract for the AI Age (SCAI), this is a prerequisite for connecting data infrastructure, commercial transactions and development.

If a country does not meet the standards, it will not be connected. On this data infrastructure, to create an economy where every citizen is an innovator. Creating an education program called the Global Enlightenment Education Program (GEEP) for all individuals. Organizations that commit to respect and apply SCAI standards can participate, and be supported with the GEEP program to know how to build a home of creativity for themselves. Global Alliance for Digital Governance stands out to call, connect, and coordinate between the United Nations, governments of the Pillars: US, Japan, India, and European Alliance (EA), an alliance including the EU, UK, and European countries that accept and apply SCAI standards. These governments have to join a United Nations led AI International Accord, or Global Digital Compact, and then implement it with developing countries.

We call this economy the Global Enlightenment Economy. We call its infrastructure Global Enlightenment Economy Infrastructure (GEEI).

The Global Enlightenment Economy respects and recognizes contributions to society, to drive people and society with a focus not only on material and financial values, but also contribute to creating an Age of Global Enlightenment with peace, security, prosperity for every country, every people, and preventing extreme nationalism in any country. Contributions for this will be recognized as AIWS Rewards.

The Manifesto “AIWS Actions to create an Age of Global Enlightenment” proposes actions and coordination to build Global Enlightenment Economy Infrastructure that enables interoperability across company and national boundaries, and designs Global Enlightenment Economy ecosystems of trusted data and AI that provide safe, secure, and human-centered services for everyone in need: only governments who sign and apply AIIA, Global Digital Compact in their countries, can join the Global Enlightenment Economy Infrastructure.

The Global Alliance for Digital Governance (GADG) will supervise and control implementing standards of SCAI, ensuring data and algorithms are not biased. We call this politics the Global Enlightenment Polity where all individuals can participate in policy deliberations, introduce new ideas. And contribute in all ways to the global wellbeing.

GADG can build an operating mechanism for Global Enlightenment Economy Infrastructure so that companies involved in building and connecting infrastructure cannot create a monopoly, and creates opportunities for start-ups, small and medium-sized enterprises, for each individual, to create an Ecology of the Global Enlightenment Economy. The technology platform is introduced in Alex Sandy Pentland’s article “Building a New Economy: Data, AI, and Web3″

Global Enlightenment Economy Infrastructure supported by the Global Enlightenment Polity and its knowledge platform, the Global System for Sustainable Development (GSSD) can be very instrumental in helping to solve problems of disinformation, misinformation and the like. Then GEEI and GSSD will be good and solid platforms for politics and society of the Global Enlightenment Age – AIWS

Read the full manifesto here.