by Editor | Apr 29, 2022 | AIWS City and Rebuilding Ukraine, News
Honoring President Zelensky and all Ukraine people with the World Leader for Peace and Security Award
Conference “Laurel for Peace and Security in Ukraine”
Loeb House, Harvard University, April 29, 2022
Good morning and welcome, distinguished guests and speakers who have gathered today here at Harvard University, and online from around the world, for this important forum to discuss current events and potential future pathways for Ukraine.
I am pleased to announce that this year’s recipient of the Boston Global Forum’s World Leader for Peace and Security Award is Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine and all Ukrainian people. This prestigious Award is given to honor individuals who demonstrate a fierce commitment to peace and justice. In that spirit, we present the award to the Ukraine people who are courageously fighting to preserve their country’s sovereignty.
Trained as a lawyer, though he never practiced law, President Zelensky entered politics from a career in television, winning the presidency in 2019 with 73 percent of the vote. He ran on an anti-corruption platform and promised to bring a negotiated end to the conflict in eastern Ukraine resulting from the Russian takeover of the region in 2014.
He persuaded the Ukrainian parliament to enact laws stripping members of Parliament of legal immunity and banning oligarchs from contributing funds to political candidates. His efforts to get Russia to agree to a just settlement of the conflict in eastern Ukraine did not succeed, but he brokered a ceasefire in 2019 that sharply reduced the violence and tension in the region.
President Zelensky’s finest hour began with the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine two months ago. Using the power of the presidency and through the brilliant use of social media, he has with his words and personal courage inspired Ukrainians against all odds to resist the invasion. No leader in recent times has spoken more powerfully than when President Zelensky, upon being offered safe passage out of the country, said, “The fight is here. I need ammunition, not a ride.”
President Zelensky has been a tireless defender of Ukraine’s territorial integrity, petitioning nation after nation to provide the humanitarian and military assistance that Ukrainians need to save their country.
He has inspired Ukrainians, and people around the world, with his proud defense of his country against tyranny.
He does not come to oversee for his safe, he stands in his country. He inspires Ukrainian people and the world.
Russia claims that it invaded Ukraine to root out its “neo-Nazis.” Ironically, the man who, above all others, has stood in its way is Jewish, with close relatives who perished in the Holocaust. President Zelensky is not only Ukraine’s first Jewish president, he’s the first elected Jewish head of state and head of government of any country, save for Israel.
President Zelensky and the Ukrainian people have made momentous contributions to peace and security in the world in their opposition to the ambitions of Russia’s Putin. Their courageous stand against imperialism and extremist nationalism will give pause to authoritarian leaders in the future.
President Zelensky embodies the desire for peace and security that resides within the heart of so many, and yet would be denied by authoritarian leaders. It gives me great pleasure to be honoring him and all Ukrainian people today with the Boston Global Forum’s World Leader for Peace and Security Award. Honoring President Zelensky and Ukrainian people, BGF has conceived and coordinated today’s program with distinguished leaders, thinkers, innovators to contribute ideas and counsel for the rebuilding of Ukraine.
by Editor | Apr 24, 2022 | AIWS City and Rebuilding Ukraine, Papers & Reports, News
In the special report “Rebuilding Ukraine with Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment,” BGF present applying AIWS City model and concepts to rebuild Ukrainian cities as smart cities after the war.
BGF will:
- Connect historical, traditional cities to AIWS City for Ukraine.
- Build components of AIWS City for Ukraine: AIWS Home for Ukrainian People, AIWS Concert Hall, AIWS Museum, AIWS Gem Town, AIWS University, AIWS Innovation, AIWS Healthcare as a smart healthcare system, AIWS Market.
Professor David Silbersweig, Harvard Medical School, Board Member of BGF, will lead the initiative “Addressing the war-related health crisis and re-building a smart healthcare system for the future,” a part of AIWS Healthcare System for Ukraine.
Governor Michael Dukakis and BGF call distinguished professors, universities, innovators, companies, foundations, and governments to contribute for “Rebuilding Ukraine”.
We welcome students to work with us in this special project.
Please contact by email: [email protected] or [email protected]
by Editor | Apr 24, 2022 | Papers & Reports, Event Updates
Governor Michael Dukakis, Co-founder and Chair of BGF, Nguyen Anh Tuan, Co-founder and CEO of BGF, Harvard and MIT professors who are Board Members of BGF Thomas Patterson, Nazli Choucri, Alex Pentland, David Silbersweig will present two special reports:
- Solutions for peace, security, and territory integrity in Ukraine
- Rebuilding Ukraine with “Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment”
Along with 2 special reports are features and highlights:
Message of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Keynote Speech of Ambassador of Ukraine to the US Oksana Markarova
Latvian President Egils Levits
Riksdag Speaker Andreas Norlen
Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to President Obama, Harvard professor Jason Furman
Please register to join the conference here: https://dukakis.org/news-and-events/boston-global-forum-and-lato-to-host-laurel-for-peace-and-security-in-ukraine-conference/
by Editor | Apr 24, 2022 | AIWS City and Rebuilding Ukraine, News
On April 29, 2022, the Boston Global Forum will honor all Ukrainian people and President Zelensky with the 2022 World Leader for Peace and Security Award and present the Strategy and Plan to rebuild Ukraine.
From pain and destruction, building a beautiful, civilized Ukraine, springing up with vitality
Children shall be educated in quality schools, within an advanced society with kindness, humanity civility, creativity, innovation, equality of opportunities for all people, openness, transparency, intelligence, without corruptions in the government and manipulation of the oligarchs.
Applying the Social Contract for the AI Age and pioneering ideas, concepts of the book Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment to “Remaking Ukraine – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment,” we shall rebuild Ukraine to become an exemplary nation of the Age of Global Enlightenment.
The distinguished contributors of the book include President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, Riksdag Speaker Andreas Norlen, Governor Michael Dukakis, Father of the Internet Vint Cerf, professors Thomas Patterson, Nazli Choucri, Alex Pentland, Judea Pearl, Joseph Nye, Minister Taro Kono, Nguyen Anh Tuan, Ramu Damodaran.
Governor Michael Dukakis and BGF call upon distinguished professors, universities, and innovators, companies, foundations, governments to contribute for “Rebuilding Ukraine”.
We welcome students to work with us in this special project.
Please contact by email: [email protected] or [email protected]
by Editor | Apr 24, 2022 | AIWS City and Rebuilding Ukraine, News, Practices in Cybersecurity
On Thursday, April 21st, the Boston Global Forum and the Global Alliance for Digital Governance (GADG) co-hosted the High-Level Dialog: Cyber Defense: From the Russia-Ukraine Battleground to Cyberwarfare with Authoritarian Regimes. Part of a series of events intended to foster ongoing and sustained dialogue through interactive forums in response to the systemic challenges confronting contemporary geopolitics.
This dialogue brought together distinguished experts to discuss the current challenges of global political affairs with the goal of developing a coordinated strategy to counter foreign and domestic cyberthreats, as well as effectively devising countermeasures to systemic and state-sponsored hybrid threats that may affect human rights and democratic processes, and to discuss strategies for the development of international cyber peace and security principles.
Participants agreed that current global challenges such as the pandemic, global warming, the impending energy crisis, and the global dynamics surrounding the war in Ukraine are rapidly solidifying the realization that we may have reached an turning point in modern history. After decades of global success, liberal democracy faces an uncertain future due to overlapping challenges in global systems and geopolitics that may have far-reaching consequences. Several internal and foreign challenges are threatening liberal democracies. Heightened internal social contrasts and polarisation in the US, a rise in internal and foreign threats to the European project, the war in Ukraine and an increasingly powerful pushback to globalisation and the democratic model in many areas of the world. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is hastening trends that were already underway and posing a systematic challenge to the basic foundations of international relations, international law and the UN Charter. Vladimir Putin’s military campaign in a democratic country and his use of digital channels and infrastructure to spread disinformation and cyberwarfare threaten global security and stability. They are setting the stage for a systemic challenge.
These confluence of events has re-established national security as a top global priority, with an increasing operational impact on the ratio of commercial to military technological investments, as well as an increasingly unstable and confrontational global geopolitical environment that is exacerbating disinformation, increasing separation and national resilience efforts in digital infrastructures and services, amplifying the threat of cyber confrontations, and the development of novel forms of cyber warfare fuelled by AI innovations that will undoubtedly constitute the technological challenge of the future.
With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), new challenges and questions will arise regarding their role in preserving democratic institutions and ideals, enhancing national and international security, and challenging the definition of democracy itself. The war in Ukraine created the perfect storm for a potentially epochal transformation that could undermine decades of liberal and democratic globalisation efforts.
Security and military infrastructure, elections, the global economy and governments foreign policies could all potentially be transformed.
The current complex crisis necessitates immediate responses from liberal democracies, which must work to reconcile their differences and forge the newfound unity required to face modern challenges. Considerations about the new long-term role that cybersecurity and cyberwarfare may play are no longer optional, but rather necessitate coordination. In response to the growing cyberthreats, NATO and other allies should prioritize a strong technological response, including the development of countermeasures to systemic and state-sponsored hybrid threats. Furthermore, other international law-abiding organizations promoting global peace and legal accord, such as the UN, should negotiate a new coordinated strategy to adapt and strengthen their role in the pursuit of human rights, democratic processes, international peace, and the global order based on international law and global peace and security principles and stability.
Moderator:
Francesco Lapenta, Director of the Institute of Future and Innovation Studies at John Cabot University, and member of the “Global Alliance for Digital Governance (GADG)” Initiative.
Participating to the debate
Corrado Giustozzi founder and senior partner at Rexilience, Former Information and cyber security expert at Agenzia per l’Italia Digitale, and Former member (2010-20) of the Advisory Group at the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA).
Andrea Gilli, Senior Researcher, NATO Defence College and Affiliate at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University.
Walter Dorn, Professor of Defence Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) and the Canadian Forces College (CFC).
Giovanni Sembenini. Deputy Director – NATO STO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation.
Mats Karlsson, Former Vice President of the World Bank
Closing Remarks:
Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO of Boston Global Forum and coordinator of the event.
by Editor | Apr 24, 2022 | Event Updates
Remaking Ukraine – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment
What: The conference will address the situation in Ukraine, and work to provide solutions for Peace, Security, Territory Integrity and Rebuilding Ukraine.
At the event, the Boston Global Forum (BGF) will honor President Zelensky and all Ukrainian people as the 2022 World Leader for Peace and Security.
BGF will be honoring President Zelensky and all Ukrainian people through assistance and application of the concepts from “Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment” to rebuild Ukraine in becoming an exemplary nation.
In this event, BGF will present ideas and suggestions from BGF World Leader for Peace and Security Award’s recipients to Laurel for Peace and Security in Ukraine Initiative.
Where: Loeb House, Harvard University
When: 8:30 AM – 11:30 AM EDT / 15:30 – 18:30 EEST // April 29, 2022
Who: World Leaders, Scholars of Harvard University and MIT, Members of Boston Global Forum
Co-organizers: Boston Global Forum and Latvian Transatlantic Organization
Agenda
Session 1, 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EDT, 15:30 – 17:00 EEST
Honor President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukrainian People as 2022 World Leader for Peace and Security and Solutions for Peace, Security and Territory Integrity of Ukraine
8:30 a.m. Introduction, Harvard professor, Co-founder of Boston Global Forum, Thomas Patterson
Remarks to honor President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by Governor Michael Dukakis, Co-founder and Chair of the Boston Global Forum
Message of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (pre-recorded video of text)
Keynote Speech of Ambassador of Ukraine to USA Oksana Markarova (online)
Latvian President Egils Levits (online)
Riksdag Speaker Andreas Norlen (online)
A leader of US State Department (online)
Senior Fellow of Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center, Brigadier General Kevin Ryan
MIT professor Nazli Choucri (online)
Discussion:
Moderator: Chairwoman of the Latvian Transatlantic Organization (LATO), Professor of International Relations, University of Latvia, Zaneta Ozolina
Session 2, 10:00 AM – 11:25 AM EDT / 17:00 – 18:25 EEST
Rebuild Ukraine: From devastation by War to an Exemplary Nation with Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment
Leaders of Boston Global Forum: Governor Michael Dukakis, CEO Nguyen Anh Tuan, MIT Professor Alex Pentland, Harvard professors Thomas Patterson, David Silbersweig
Ukrainian former Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk (online)
Discussion: Strategies to rebuild Ukraine
Moderator: Governor Michael Dukakis
Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to President Obama, Harvard professor Jason Furman
Latvian former President Vaira Vike-Freiberga (online)
Bosnian-Herzegovina former Prime Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija (online)
Former Vice President of the World Bank, Representative of BGF in London and Stockholm Mats Karlsson (online)
Assistant Secretary of Business Development and International Trade, Government of Massachusetts, Nam Pham
EY Global Tax Innovator, Jeffrey Saviano
11:30 am: Closing Remarks, Governor Michael Dukakis
Delegates and Discussants: Consuls-General in Boston: Arnaud Mentré (France), Peter Abbott OBE (UK), Nicole Menzenbach (Germany), Stratos Efthymiou (Greece), Leonard Kopelman (Finland), Jonathan Sun (Taiwan), Marek Leśniewski-Laas (Poland), Elizabeth T Lesniewski-laas (Romania) and Distinguished Scholars, Innovators who are members of AIWS.net supporting Ukraine, and honor guests.
Please register to attend the conference by sending an email to [email protected]
by Editor | Apr 17, 2022 | AIWS City and Rebuilding Ukraine, News, AIWS and the Age of Global Enlightenment
In the strategies and plan to rebuild Ukraine “Remaking Ukraine – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment”, applying AIWS City for rebuild cities of Ukraine in becoming smart cities, connecting with global cities, supporting and contributing values of global cities to the cities of Ukraine.
BGF call governments, cities, companies, universities support and help to rebuild Ukraine through AIWS City platform. Leaders of AIWS City contribute to rebuild Ukraine include Governor Michael Dukakis, Nguyen Anh Tuan, father of Internet Vint Cerf, MIT professor Alex Pentland, Nazli Choucri, Harvard professors Thomas Patterson, David Silbersweig, former Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina Zlatko Lagumdzija, former President of Latvia Vaira Vike-Freiberga.
Cities of Ukraine will be pioneering cities in applying Social Contract for the AI Age and the six pillars of the Age of Global Enlightenment. By these strategies, cities of Ukraine from devastation by war to exemplary cities for Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment.
by Editor | Apr 17, 2022 | AIWS City and Rebuilding Ukraine, News, World Leaders in AIWS Award Updates
Riksdag Speaker Andreas Norlen and former Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga will speak at the Conference to President Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian people with the World Leader for Peace and Security Award on April 29, 2022 at Loeb House, Harvard University, co-organized by Boston Global Forum and Latvian Transatlantic Organization.
Speaker Andreas Norlen, who was honored BGF World Leader for Peace and Security Award 2021, will speak at the session 1: Honor President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukrainian People as 2022 World Leader for Peace and Security and Solutions for Peace, Security and Territory Integrity of Ukraine.
President Vaira Vike-Freiberga was honored BGF World Leader for Peace and Security Award 2019, will speak at the session 2: Rebuild Ukraine: From devastation by War to an Exemplary Nation for Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment.
Both Speaker Norlen and President Vike-Freiberga criticize Russia government and support Ukraine in their battle against the Russian invasion.
by Editor | Apr 17, 2022 | AIWS City and Rebuilding Ukraine, Event Updates, Global Cyber Security Day, Practices in Cybersecurity
Moderator: Francesco Lapenta, the Founding Director of the John Cabot University Institute of Future and Innovation Studies, Representative of Boston Global Forum in Italia.
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM EDT / 14:00 – 15:30 CEST, April 21
In this Dialog, Francesco Lapenta will moderate and discuss with speakers on:
– Learning from the cyber war between Russia and Ukraine.
– International laws, policies, and regulations that should be created.
– Who should and how to contribute to the Global Alliance for Digital Governance in these works.
Speakers:
Corrado Giustozzi
Information and cyber security strategic consultant, manager, author and lecturer.
Founder and Senior Partner at Rexilience.
Member of the Board of Directors (2015-16, 2017-18, 2019-20, 2021-22) at Clusit, the Italian national association for cybersecurity.
Former senior cybersecurity expert at Agenzia per l’Italia Digitale in charge of the development of the government CERT for the Public Sector (2015-20).
Former member (2010-12, 2012-15, 2015-17, 2017-20) of the Advisory Group at the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA).
Andrea Gilli
Senior Researcher, NATO Defence College
Andrea Gilli is a Senior Researcher at NATO Defence College and Affiliate at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Andrea has been visiting fellow at both Columbia (SIPA) and Johns Hokins University (SAIS) and post-doctoral fellow at both Stanford (CISAC) and Harvard University (Belfer Center). Andrea holds a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute.
Walter Dorn
Walter Dorn is Professor of Defence Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) and the Canadian Forces College (CFC). He teaches officers of rank major to brigadier-general from Canada and about 20 other countries. He specializes in arms control, peace operations, just war theory, international criminal law, treaty verification and enforcement, and the United Nations.
