Boston Global Forum CEO Nguyen Anh Tuan was a speaker of the Riga Conference 2022. At the conference, Boston Global Forum and LATO introduced pioneering principles, concepts and actions to build the US, EU, Japan, India to become pillars for world peace and security.
Tuan met and discussed with leaders who were speakers of the Riga Conference 2022. Here are some pictures:
On Oct. 25, 2022, Global Enlightenment Leaders Governor Michael Dukakis, Prime Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija, LATO Chairwoman Zaneta Ozolina, BGF CEO Nguyen Anh Tuan and State Minister Yasuhide Nakayama spoke at the John Cabot University in Rome, Italy, to announce and highlight keynotes of Manifesto “Tech for Peace the Global Enlightenment Age.”
President of John Cabot University delivered opening remarks with recognition of significance of this historic initiative and honored of its announcement in Italy, the Renaissance country, the precursor to the Enlightenment.
On behalf of the Boston Global Forum and authors of the Manifesto, Prime Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija presented the keynotes, four parts of the Manifesto: 1. Why, 2. The Global Enlightenment Age, 3. Models and concepts of “Tech for peace and security in the Global Enlightenment Age,” 4. Solutions to implements. He confirmed that AIWS.net, AIWS City, and Global Alliance for Digital Governance will be a platform to this manifesto.
Zaneta Ozolina highlighted the role of the Riga Conference and collaboration of the Riga Conference with this initiative.
Former Japanese State Minister of Defense Yasuhide Nakayama contributed views and actions from Japan to the Manifesto.
Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan introduced special notes of the Manifesto:
Technology helps people to access truth, justice, rationality, norms, standards, and values. Tech must assist, help the world to justice, make right, concise, true perception, awareness of people in the world, avoid dictators, totalitarian countries using their propaganda system to lie to people.
Technology must support, assist to reduce threats and dangers of world peace.
Governance tech to minimize its negative impacts.
Respect for privacy and Public-Private and individual collaboration, combining to support management of societies to be more secure, safer, and peaceful. Tech serves people, makes people more powerful, smarter in thinking, decision making and doing.
Technology helps and assists in building an Innovative, Smart, Tech Economy: every person can become an innovator. Technology help to create equality of opportunities in education for developing countries, special in Middle East, India, Africa.
Apply technology to make people be more powerful, more knowledgeable, more innovative and more intellectual; people use technology to supervise governments and politics, societies. Make a smarter society, do not need to argue or debate issues that can be easily checked in expert systems already.
Mr. Tuan said “the Manifesto is not only a document of concepts, ideas, models, it also includes roadmap for actions, and doing.”
We are all technologists, as we use devices that help us receive and process information throughout our daily lives. Every interaction with the outside world, related to health, well-being, learning, finance, economics, relationships, involves technology in some way.
While technology has improved life and made many things more convenience and effective, it has had negative consequences that must the addressed and remedied. In politics especially, there are new threats and real dangers to world peace driven by technological tools and strategies: religious extremism, racism and ethnic divisions, authoritarianism and totalitarianism, extreme nationalism. The most powerful countries suffer from these problems and grapple with solutions.
The Global Enlightenment Age
There are existing structures and networks that are serving to guide us to a better place. The United Nations Academic Impact and Boston Global Forum founded the United Nations Centennial Initiative and published the book “Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment” in May 2021. Numerous forums, non-profit groups, conferences and high-level discussions have begun to counter the rise of technological malfeasance. The ‘Remaking the World” book outlines the potential for an Age of Global Enlightenment, potentially a much more peaceful, secure, and lawful age of humankind.
Models and concepts of “Tech for peace and security in the Global Enlightenment Age”
These high-level discussions among the world’s leading thinkers have developed concepts that can be used to deploy technology in the service of world peace and security, including cybersecurity:
Technology helps people to access truth, justice, rationality, norms, standards, and
Technology must support the reduction of threats and dangers to world peace;
Technology must assist in building a just world, where truth and accurate perception is a fundamentally respected value;
Political leaders who manipulate information and technology to spread lies, undermine respect for the Rule of Law and Freedom of the Press should be identified and discouraged from participating in civic life;
Laws and regulations for digital technologies must be developed and implemented in an unbiased fashion to minimize the negative impacts of technology;
Respect for privacy in the public and private spheres should be paramount in developing policies;
Technology must be harnessed to assist in building an Innovative, Smart Economy, enabling opportunities for every person to become an innovator;
Technology must be directed to enable individuals to become more knowledgeable and active participants in local, national and international civic and political life;
Model for Discussion:
Two groundbreaking works outline the promise of AI in the future as a core strategy and tool for ensuring peace and security:
The AIWS model and concepts of the book “Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment,” including the Social Contract for the AI Age and the International Law Accord on AI and Digital (Global AI Bill of Rights) are fundamental for world peace and security in the Global Enlightenment Age.”
AIWS proposes the following steps to help resolve emerging issues
Building the capacity of Pillar Countries as a paragon and practical model: Initially the Four Pillars are: United States, European Union countries, Japan, India
South Korea, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland, Australia, Canada, Singapore are the next tier of Pillar Countries;
Encourage and assist other nations, such as South Africa, Chile and others, to join Pillars community;
Strengthen and propagate the Global Alliance for Digital Governance (GADG) to coordinate in this mission. GADG can supervise the process, making sure data is not biased, and conducting campaigns to fight disinformation and misinformation;
Building the capacity of AIWS.net, a global community of distinguished people, organizations and institutions to implement, help bring into practice the Manifesto under the guidance of the GADG.
Encourage and respect all contributions from any people to apply and build the Global Enlightenment Age through AIWS.net. All meaningful contributions will be recognized and introduced on AIWS.net.
Establishing a Group of Global Enlightenment Leaders to lead this mission.
Help to build AIWS City, a digital city, to recognize, honor, hold and share information about achievements.
AIWS City is a place to organize events and conferences to apply the Manifesto and build the Global Enlightenment Age;
Building tech solutions in order to contribute, assist and help in bringing education to all people, especially in developing countries. This is a fundamental solution to reduce extreme nationalism and religion;
We will assist in building a special education program (Innovation Education Program in the Global Enlightenment Age) to educate people in the world to have awareness and perceptions about the Global Enlightenment Age and their opportunities, obligations and responsibilities;
We call for public-private cooperation to find tech solutions to manage threats, dangers to world peace from extreme nationalism from major countries and religious extremism;
Every nation must help build the Innovation Community Economy: Every person can be an innovator;
We call on the United Nations and all countries to support and implement this Program.
Global Enlightenment Leaders: Governor Michael Dukakis, BGF’s CEO Nguyen Anh Tuan, MIT professors Alex Sandy Pentland and Nazli Choucri, Chairwoman of the Latvian Transatlanic Organization (LATO) Zaneta Ozolina, and former Japanese State Minister of Defense Yasuhide Nakayama, spoke at the Session “US-EU-Japan-India: the Pillars for world peace and security” at the Riga Conference 2022. Some highlights of the initiative are:
Concepts:
To create innovative and technologically advanced economies as models for the world. They are pillars of innovation and the tech economy.
To uphold the norms, standards, and values required for world peace and security
To apply and expand the norms, standards, and values to nations who accept the opportunity, commitment, and values that they represent.
Roles, voices, impacts, decisions of each pillar depend on their contributions in building US-EU-Japan-India Pillars for World Peace and Security, and then apply and expand to nations who accepts this model and paradigm to join and become a Pillar nation for World Peace and Security.
Fundamental:
Standards, Norms and Values: As provided by UN conventions and the Boston Global Forum’s Social Contract for the AI Age and AIWS Values
Economy:
US-EU-Japan-India Pillars dominate tech and innovative economy.
Every individual become innovators in the Global Enlightenment Age. Communities and citizens as sources of innovation
Building innovation communities of these Pillars. Create a new economy model of collaboration public-private for maximum resources, faster, smarter, more effective and more innovative. Economic system rooted in public-private collaboration to encourage innovation and expand applications of technology.
Protect peace and security:
Support and respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, and cyber security of all nations.
Promote and protect standards and values between pillars and in all nations.
Education:
Create the Innovation Program in the Global Enlightenment Age for all people:
Social Contract for the AI Age and AIWS Values
World History: concise, true, independent, and scientific
Innovation ecosystem where everyone can become an innovator. Strengthen communities and individuals’ capacity for innovation
Art and Music: Symphonies and Chamber Music, art and music for Peace and Reconciliation
Deepen respect for and understanding of nations’ cultures, histories, and peoples
“Observational skills (which) expert trackers wielded took years to develop. So Jewell, a cofounder of the US nonprofit WildTrack, turned to artificial intelligence to help identify animal tracks using photos. Reading those signs is something AI can help humans do. This kind of heavy-duty data crunching is happening more often across conservation programs globally. These efforts are making it easier to monitor, understand, and even predict conservation challenges.”
AIWS.net includes news reports, analysis and reflections by distinguished thinkers and innovators supporting innovations and solutions for “Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment” and the United Nations Centennial initiative, looking at how the world might be in 2045 when the global organization completes a hundred years.
On Oct. 22, at the session “US-EU-Japan-India: the Pillars for World Peace and Security” of the Riga Conference 2022, Boston Global Forum’s CEO Nguyen Anh Tuan presented strategies to build US-EU-Japan-India to become pillars for world peace and security. He highlighted the role of the Global Alliance for Digital Governance in coordinating digital resources of the US, EU, India, Japan to build advanced tech economy to compete with China. Some strategies are:
Foster agreements and cooperation on innovation and technological progress among the US, EU, Japan, and India.
Create a common market for mutual benefit, for innovative economy, special for tech economy.
Create a network of distinguished thinkers, innovators, business leaders, policymakers, and decision makers to solve challenges. Consider AIWS.net as a solution for this special network.
Global Alliance for Digital Governance to contribute solutions to solve challenges and coordinate digital resources.
Rome will together with Boston and Tokyo announce the first draft of the Manifesto “Tech for Peace in the Global Enlightenment Age” on October 25 at John Cabot University.
This Manifesto as a part of the United Nations Centennial Initiative and support of Under-Secretary-General, Tech Envoy Amandeep Gill.
Speakers:
Francesco Lapenta, the Founding Director of the John Cabot University Institute of Future and Innovation Studies
Franco Pavoncello, President of John Cabot University
Governor Michael Dukakis, Democratic Party Nominee for President of the United States, 1988
Ramu Damodaran, Co-chair of United Nations Centennial Initiative
Zlatko Lagumdzija, former Prime Minister of Bosnia & Herzegovina
Mats Karlsson, former Vice President of World Bank
Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO of Boston Global Forum
Yasuhide Nakayama, former Japanese State Minister of Defense
Kazuo Yano, Chief Scientist of Hitachi
Alex Sandy Pentland, MIT Professor
Zaneta Ozolina, Professor and Chairwoman of LATO and Riga Conference
Roland Schatz, CEO of Media Tenor and Founder and CEO UNGSII Foundation
Allain Cyntryn, Former CTO of Goldman Sachs
After this BGF-John Cabot University conference, the Manifesto will be continually discussed, and the official version will be presented on Global Cybersecurity Day December 12, 2022 at Loeb House, Harvard University, together with the World Leader Award in AIWS.
At Governor Michael Dukakis’ Estate on October 13, BGF Leaders met and discussed to build US-EU-Japan-India pillars for World Peace and Security. Those that were present are:
Former Vice President of World Bank Mats Karlsson, Representative of BGF in Stockholm and London
Former Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina Zlatko Lagumdzija, Representative of BGF in the Balkans
Former Japanese State Minister Yasuhide Nakayama, BGF Coordinator of Global Alliance for Digital Governance in Japan and Taiwan
MIT Professor Nazli Choucri
MIT Professor Alex Pentland
Harvard Professor Thomas Patterson
Harvard Professor David Silbersweig
CEO of BGF Nguyen Anh Tuan
They proposed for the first draft “US-EU-Japan-India Pillars for World Peace and Security.” This draft will be presented by Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan at the Riga Conference 2022 on October 22, 2022. Then, the co-authors will continue to discuss and complete it for the official version to present at the BGF Conference on November 23, 2022 at Loeb House, Harvard University.
