by Editor | Sep 5, 2022 | Global Alliance for Digital Governance
On September 16, 2022, Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) will be hosting the Global Emerging Technology Summit. The purpose of the Summit is to bring together government and private sector leaders from the United States and our staunchest allies and partners to ensure that emerging technologies help advance freedom, strengthen democracies, and protect the rules-based order.
Alongside a series of cutting-edge tech demos, the day’s sessions will shed further light on the future of geopolitics, democracy, and technology. Last week SCSP announced a remarkable lineup of speakers, including Jake Sullivan, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, Eva Kaili, VP of the European Parliament, and Sir Alex Younger, former Chief of the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). This week, SCSP was thrilled to announce more speakers: Jack Clark, Co- founder of Anthropic AI; Stacey Dixon, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence; Anshu Roy, CEO of Rhombus; Wendy R. Sherman, Deputy Secretary of State; Eric Schmidt, SCSP Chair; Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State; and H.R. McMaster, Lieut. Gen., U.S. Army (retired), Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution.
The Global Alliance for Digital Governance (GADG) was established through a collaboration of the Boston Global Forum and World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid at the Policy Lab on September 7-9, 2021.
GADG do:
- Coordinate resources: governments, international organizations, corporations, think tanks, civil society, and influencers for AI and a digital sphere for good, to make these resources more effective, to synthesize and maximize their impact, and to create more implementation-oriented conferences.
- Protect fundamental values and standards proposed inSocial Contract for the AI Age, inAI International Accord and in the book Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment.
by Editor | Aug 28, 2022 | News
VLAB Innovation creates a series of special digital works about Prime Minister Ehud Barak, a Global Enlightenment Leader, in Vietnam.
Ehud Barak had a distinguished trip to Vietnam from August 2 to 19, 2022, holding great meetings and discussions, speaking to leaders, thought leaders, and students.
These are landmarks of his trip: meeting with President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, speaking at Hanoi Opera House, visiting General Vo Nguyen Giap’s House and discussing with Mr. Vo Hong Nam, Son of General Giap, in Hanoi.
by Editor | Aug 28, 2022 | News
On August 16, 2022 ,the United Nations Secretary-General has appointed 10 high-level and eminent persons to serve on his inaugural Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Leadership Panel.
Father of the Internet Vint Cerf, 2019 World Leader in AIWS Award recipient and a Distinguished Contributor to Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment, and former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, 2017 World Leader for Peace and Security Award recipient, are members of IGF Leadership Panel and BGF Global Enlightenment Leaders.
Vint Cerf contributed the chapter “A People-Centered Economy” for the book. In it, he wrote:
“We will need an international call for an operation in order to induce and introduce this people-centeredness into the use of artificial intelligence, because we will and use these techniques on a global scale.”
“So now we have to figure out what the international agreements are going to be, not only to deal with the abuses of the internet and its applications, but also the potential abuses of machine learning. And that is going to require some deep thought and some deep understanding and some dependence on technologists who are much smart than I am, about how those technologies could be abused and what we can do to both detect and defend against that. And so as we design a people-centered and artificially intelligent world, where the tools get smarter and smarter, we will have to think our way through exactly that set of problems.”
by Editor | Aug 28, 2022 | News
The United Nations Secretary-General has appointed 10 high-level and eminent persons to serve on his inaugural Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Leadership Panel.
In line with the mandate of the IGF and as recommended in the Secretary-General’s Roadmap for Digital Cooperation, the Secretary-General has established the Panel as a strategic, empowered, and multistakeholder body to support and strengthen the IGF. The Panel will thus address strategic and urgent issues and highlight Forum discussions and possible follow-up actions, in order to promote greater impact and dissemination of IGF discussions according to its Terms of Reference.
Two of the ten distinguished members of the Panel are Boston Global Forum’s Global Enlightenment Leaders: Father of Internet Vint Cerf and former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves.
https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/personnel-appointments/2022-08-16/internet-governance-forum-leadership-panel%C2%A0
by Editor | Aug 28, 2022 | Global Alliance for Digital Governance
The 17th annual UN Internet Global Forum meeting will be hosted in a hybrid format. The meeting will aim at accommodating the participation of stakeholders present onsite in Addis Ababa or participating online in an equitable manner. This hybrid approach also extends to the session organizing teams (organizers, speakers, moderators and rapporteurs) who will participate online or onsite. This further means that all session-engaged parties can participate onsite or online. The overall objective is to make participation in IGF 2022 meaningful and inclusive for all participants.
The meeting will be hosted under the overarching theme: Resilient Internet for a shared sustainable and common future. The programme will be developed around the following themes:
The Global Alliance for Digital Governance (GADG) was established through a collaboration of the Boston Global Forum and World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid at the Policy Lab on September 7-9, 2021.
GADG do:
- Coordinate resources: governments, international organizations, corporations, think tanks, civil society, and influencers for AI and a digital sphere for good, to make these resources more effective, to synthesize and maximize their impact, and to create more implementation-oriented conferences.
- Protect fundamental values and standards proposed in Social Contract for the AI Age, in AI International Accord and in the book Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment.
Two coordinators of GADG, Vint Cerf and Toomas Hendrik Ilves, are members of IGF Leadership Panel. GADG will connect and support this event.
by Editor | Aug 28, 2022 | Event Updates
Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21 September. The UN General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, through observing 24 hours of non-violence and cease-fire.
But achieving true peace entails much more than laying down arms. It requires the building of societies where all members feel that they can flourish.
The Boston Global Forum will organize an online high-level panel “Peace for the Global Enlightenment Age”
Time: 9 AM – 10:30 AM EDT, September 21, 2022.
Speakers will discuss ideas in utilization of technology to maintain world peace and security
Theme: Technology for Peace
Moderator:
Ramu Damodaran, Co-chair of the United Nations Centennial Initiative
Agenda (Tentative):
Opening Remarks, Ramu Damodaran, Co-chair of the United Nations Centennial Initiative
Vision from the United Nations, Amandeep Singh Gill, UN Envoy on Technology
Data Science contributes to peace and security, Alex Sandy Pentland, MIT Professor
Peace for the Global Enlightenment Age: Tech Movement, Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO of Boston Global Forum
Discussion, Moderated by Ramu Damodaran
Concluding Remarks, Ramu Damodaran
by Editor | Aug 21, 2022 | News
Prime Minister Ehud Barak presented the book Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment to leaders of the government, academics, and businesses in his trip to Vietnam, from August 2 to 19, 2022.
President of Vietnam Nguyen Xuan Phuc
Nguyen Van Nen, Chief of the Vietnam Communist Party in Ho Chi Minh City
Le Duc Tho, Chief of the Vietnam Communist Party in Ben Tre Province
Nguyen Tan Tuan, Governor of Khanh Hoa Province
Dang Tri Dung, Vice Governor of Lam Dong Province
Hoang Minh Cuong, Vice Governor of Hai Phong
Leader of Ministry of Public Security
Leaders of the Central Theoretical Council of the Communist Party of Vietnam
The big event at Hanoi Opera House
Business leaders of Vietnam, Independence Palace, Ho Chi Minh City
Leaders of Saigon International University
Saigon International University
Leaders of Dalat University
At Nguyen Anh Tuan’s home in Nha Trang, the birthplace of VietNet
by Editor | Aug 21, 2022 | News
On August 17, Former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak, a President of Vietnam Nguyen Xuan Phuc at the Vietnamese Presidential Palace.
President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has said that Việt Nam wants to cooperate with Israel in fields of its strength such as innovation, sci-tech and renewable energy.
During the reception for PM Barak, Phúc said with a friendship and comprehensive partnership, including in national defence-security, Israel has become an important partner of Việt Nam.
Việt Nam wishes to learn from Israel’s experience in choosing and training talents to build a strong country, he said.
The full article can be read here.
by Editor | Aug 21, 2022 | News
In their article in the publication “Remaking the World: Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment”, Boston Global Forum (BGF) CEO Nguyen Anh Tuan and Harvard Professor Thomas Patterson wrote:
“Optimism marked the 1945 convening of the United Nations in the aftermath of the world’s deadliest war. The UN Charter charged the organization with maintaining international peace and security, protecting human rights, delivering humanitarian aid, promoting sustainable development, and upholding international law. The United Nations has worked in all these areas, and has accomplished much, but even its greatest admirers would acknowledge that it has fallen short of the hopes that marked its creation. The period leading to the UN’s centennial in 2045 is a time to ask how the UN can be strengthened. How can our common humanity be promoted? Such questions were in the forefront at the founding of the UN. That the questions remain important speaks to the challenge of remaking the world. But it also speaks to the need for a redoubled effort as the UN advances toward its centennial year.”
BGF has always seen the promise of technological advance, and vigilance to its possible pitfalls, as key to that effort. Which is why we are delighted by the appointment by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres of an Envoy on Technology. “A thought leader on digital technology (Ambassador Amandeep Singh Gill) brings to the position a deep knowledge of digital technologies coupled with a solid understanding of how to leverage the digital transformation responsibly and inclusively for progress on the Sustainable Development Goals.”
(https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/personnel-appointments/2022-06-10/mr-amandeep-singh-gill-of-india-envoy-technology%C2%A0)
BGF congratulates Ambassador Gill on his new responsibilities and looks forward to working with him in our common cause.
