by Editor | Feb 13, 2022 | Global Alliance for Digital Governance, News
In the last week, CEO of the Boston Global Forum, Nguyen Anh Tuan, had productive meetings with leaders of cybersecurity and information safety in Vietnam.
Vietnam Spark Initiative at Boston Global Forum will support Vietnam to join the Global Alliance for Digital Governance.
Vietnam will actively to contribute to high level discussion of Global Alliance for Digital Governance in 2022 and next years, especially in the Policy Dialog 2022, co-organized by Club de Madrid and Boston Global Forum in Nha Trang, Vietnam.
by Editor | Feb 13, 2022 | Event Updates
In a meeting with Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan on February 10, 2022, Vint Cerf, the Father of Internet, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist of Google, confirmed his attendance at the Policy Dialog “Building the Age of Global Enlightenment”, co-organized by Club de Madrid and Boston Global Forum. He will play an important role in the section “Global Alliance for Digital Governance”.
Former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak is a keynote speaker of this Policy Dialog. The three-day spectacular agenda with distinguished leaders and thinkers will contribute historical initiatives to build the Age of Global Enlightenment with AI and Digital.
Vint Cerf is the co-author of Social Contract for the Age of AI and a Distinguished Contributor to the book Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment”, a part of the United Nations Centennial Initiative, created by the United Nations Academic Impact and Boston Global Forum.
by Editor | Feb 6, 2022 | AIWS City and Rebuilding Ukraine, Papers & Reports, News
President of European Commission Ursula von de Leyen, World Leader for Peace and Security Award 2020, and President of Finland Sauli Niinisto, World Leader for Peace and Security Award 2018, met in Helsinki.
Many key figures have recently been in contact with Niinistö, one of few western leaders to maintain a close dialogue with Russian President Vladimir Putin, mostly recently in a phone call on 21 January.
Under the Finnish constitution, EU affairs are handled by the cabinet while the president oversees general foreign policy.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen held talks in Helsinki on Friday with Prime Minister Sanna Marin (SDP).
The two met at the prime minister’s residence to discuss issues including the security situation in Europe. Speaking briefly to reporters outside afterwards, they stressed the importance of maintaining a dialogue amid rising tensions over Ukraine.
“First and foremost Russia needs to de-escalate,” Marin said.
Von der Leyen confirmed that the EU is coordinating a response to letters sent by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov this week. In the letters, Russia reiterated its previous security demands.
On Wednesday, Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde said that her country would co-ordinate its response with Finland. The two countries are among a half-dozen EU states that are not members of NATO.
Lavrov’s letter stipulates that it expects direct answers from each country “and not within any bloc or in the name thereof”.
Von der Leyen said that Finland can count on EU solidarity, adding that the challenge posed by Russia to European security concerns all EU countries.
https://yle.fi/news/3-12300502
by Editor | Feb 6, 2022 | News, AIWS and the Age of Global Enlightenment
To mark of birth of an Age of Global Enlightenment with concepts of the book Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment, the Boston Global Forum (BGF) is seeking to create a symbol of the Age of Global Enlightenment.
Boston Global Forum (BGF) is creating a global enlightenment tree as the symbol of the Age of Global Enlightenment.
Mr. Ramu Damodaran, the first Chief of the United Nations Academic Impact, Co-chair of the United Nations Centennial Initiative, will write description of this Global Enlightenment Tree. Then BGF will invite artists to design the Global Enlightenment Tree from March 1, 2022 to June 1, 2022. BGF and Michael Dukakis Institute Board will select and announce the official Global Enlightenment Tree on July 1, 2022.
This is a unique statue in the world, and BGF will discuss with flagship cities of the Age of Global Enlightenment to decide which city is authority to build this Global Enlightenment Tree. It will be a symbol and a landmark of that city.
by Editor | Feb 6, 2022 | Global Alliance for Digital Governance, News
Global Alliance for Digital Governance’s activities, such as high-level discussions, online “movements”, and conferences for solutions in preventing cyberattacks to build Global Law and Accord on AI and Digital, will be recognized as treasures of AIWS City.
Achievements, events, figures that contributed to build the AI World Society and the Age of Global Enlightenment will be saved and recognized as historical treasures of AIWS City.
AIWS City is a practical model in building the Age of Global Enlightenment. The AIWS City was introduced at Policy Lab “Fundamental Rights in AI and Digital Societies – Towards an International Accord”, September 7-9, 2021, co-organized by Club de Madrid and Boston Global Forum (BGF) with attendance of Governor Michael Dukakis, Chair of the Boston Global Forum, President Danilo Turk, President of Club de Madrid, former presidents, prime ministers, legislators, distinguished professors of Harvard, MIT, and high-level leaders of United Nations and UNESCO.
From February 1, 2022, strategists of technology have discussed technical solutions to support this proposal. They introduced solutions and how to apply to prevent cyberattacks. They will continue to discuss until to February 18. BGF will introduce recommendations from this discussion.
by Editor | Feb 6, 2022 | Event Updates
Boston Global Forum will hold the conference “Japan and Taiwan with Peace and Security in the Age of Global Enlightenment” on April 1st, 2022, 10:00 AM – 1:30 PM in Tokyo. The event will include two parts:
Part 1: Japan and Taiwan contribute for peace and security in the Age of Enlightenment
Part 2: Solutions to prevent cyber-attack in the Age of Global Enlightenment,
Leaders that intend to attend: Governor Michael Dukakis, Chair of the Boston Global Forum, Distinguished Thinkers of Harvard University, MIT, Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and current leaders of Japan, distinguished thinkers of Japan, India, Australia, Europe.
This conference will introduce results of high-level discussion of Global Alliance for Digital Governance to prevent cyber-attack, organized from February 1.This is an official event of the United Nations Centennial Initiative and Global Alliance for Digital Governance.
by Editor | Feb 6, 2022 | AIWS City, News, AIWS and the Age of Global Enlightenment
On February 2nd, 2022, Boston Global Forum and Michael Dukakis Institute designed to save treasure of the Age of Global Enlightenment at the AIWS City. It includes historical documents and images of:
World Leader for Peace and Security Award:
Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan 2015
Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany 2015
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of United Nations 2016
Toomas Hendrik Ives, President of Estonia 2017
Sauli Niinistö, President of Finland 2018
Vaira Vike-Freiberga, President of Latvia and Club de Madrid, 2019
Ursula von der Leyen, President of European Commission 2020
Andreas Norlén, Speaker of Swedish Parliament 2021
World Leader in AIWS Award:
Angel Gurria, Secretary General of OECD 2018
Vint Cert, Father of Internet 2019
Judea Pearl, Professor of UCLA 2020
Ambassador Stavros Lambrinidis the Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United States 2021
AIWS Distinguished Lecturer:
Taro Kono, Japanese Minister of Defense
Liam Byrne, Member of UK Parliament
Kazuo Yano, Innovator of Hitachi, Japan
David Bray, Atlantic Council
Distinguished Contributors to the book” Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment”:
Shinzō Abe, Prime Minister of Japan (9/2006-9/2007, 12/2012-9/2020), 2015 World Leader for Peace and Security Award.
Ashton Carter, Former U.S. Secretary of Defense, Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Belfer Professor of Technology and Global Affairs, Harvard University.
Vint Cerf, “Father of the Internet”, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google, Co-author of Social Contract for the AI Age, 2019 World Leader in AI Society Award.
Nazli Choucri, Professor of Political Science, MIT, Boston Global Forum Board Member.
Ramu Damodaran, Chief of the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI), Co-Chair of the United Nations Centennial – BGF and UNAI Initiative in Honor of the United Nations 2045 Centenary.
Michael Dukakis, Former Governor of Massachusetts, Chairman of the Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation, Co-Founder and Chairman of the Boston Global Forum, Co-Founder of the AI World Society.
Eva Kaili, Member of the European Parliament, Chair of the European Parliament’s Science and Technology Options Assessment Panel (STOA), Chair of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence (C4AI), Head of the Hellenic S&D delegation.
Robin Kelly, U.S. Representative (D-IL 2nd District), Vice Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations (1/1/2007 – 31/12/2016), Lead the UNESCO Global Education First Initiative, 2016 World Leader for Peace and Security Award.
Didzis Kļaviņš, Senior Researcher, University of Latvia.
Taro Kono, Japanese Minister of Defense (9/2019 – 9/2020), Member of the House of Representatives, Japan.
Zlatko Lagumdžija, Former Prime Minister and Former Foreign Minister of Bosnia-Herzegovina, World Leadership Alliance – Club de Madrid (WLA-CdM) Member, Member of the History of AI Board, AIWS.
Stavros Lambrinidis, Ambassador of the European Union to the United States, 2021 World Leader in AI World Society Award.
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, 2020 World Leader for Peace and Security Award.
Yasuhide Nakayama, Japanese Defense State Minister, Member of the House of Representatives, Japan, Head of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party’s Foreign Affairs Division, Mentor of AIWS.net.
Paul Nemitz, Director for Fundamental Rights and Union citizenship in the Directorate-General for JUSTICE of the European Commission, co-author of the AIWS-G7 Summit Initiative 2019.
Nguyễn Anh Tuấn, CEO of the Boston Global Forum, Director of the Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation, Co-Founder of the AI World Society, Founder and former Editor in Chief of VietNamNet.
Andreas Norlén, Speaker of the Swedish Parliament.
Joseph Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus and former Dean of the Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Member of Boston Global Forum’s Board of Thinkers.
Žaneta Ozoliņa, Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Latvia and the Director at the Centre for International Politics, Chairwoman of the Latvian Transatlantic Organization.
Thomas Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, Harvard University, Research Director of The Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation, Co-founder of the Boston Global Forum.
Judea Pearl, Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Cognitive Systems Lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, recipient of the A.M. Turing Award, 2020 World Leader in AI World Society Award.
Alex Pentland, the Toshiba Professor at MIT, Director, MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics lab, Co-author of Social Contract for the AI Age.
Iain Duncan Smith, Conservative Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, 6th President of Latvia (1999-2007), President of World Leadership Alliance – Club de Madrid (WLA-CdM) 2013-2019; 2019 World Leader for Peace and Security Award.
It also includes:
- Cornerstones and figures in the History of Artificial Intelligence
- Cornerstones and figures that contribute in building the Age of Global Enlightenment and the United Nations Centennial Initiative
by Editor | Jan 30, 2022 | Global Alliance for Digital Governance, News
AIWS Leadership Master Program belong to AIWS University (AIWS City), will practice their leadership by practicing at Global Alliance for Digital Governance. They will be assigned to solve issues:
- Misinformation, Disinformation, and Global Enlightenment Education
- The Value System and Innovation Ecosystem of AI World Society (AIWS)
- Building trust between leaders of nations
- The Fundamentals for new international cooperation on the basis of standards of the Social Contract for the AI Age
- Building Global Law and Accord on AI and Digital technologies
- Ensuring responsible and democratic exercise of state power in the AI and digital age
- Building on opportunities in technology and Big Tech companies while addressing their challenges, threats, and dangers.
They continue with support, leading of presidents, prime ministers, leading thinkers, innovators:
- Connect and organize discussions between leaders of companies
- Organize discussions between leaders of governments
- Connect and organize discussions with professors of Law Schools
- Monitor governments in standards of Social Contract for the AI Age
- Connect companies and organizations to invite them join the Exchange AIWS Values
- Using Blockchain to create crypto-currency of AIWS Values.
by Editor | Jan 30, 2022 | News
World leaders, citizens from all continents, and the Vietnamese government pay tribute ahead of the Zen master’s cremation this weekend.
Widely known as the father of mindfulness and beloved by millions of students and followers worldwide, Thich Nhat Hanh has received a global outpouring of love and appreciation for his teachings and mindfulness practices, since his passing on January 22, 2022, at Tu Hieu Temple in Hue, Vietnam. As his community prepares for his funeral and cremation this weekend, thousands continue to post moving testimonials of deep gratitude for the healing impact he has had on their lives, including words such as:
“He saved my life.”
“He cured my soul.”
“He showed me the path to joy.”
“His teachings saved my marriage.”
“He transformed my relationship with my mother.”
“I understand my own Roman Catholic faith better now, because of the wisdom of this remarkable Buddhist monk.”
The President and Prime Minister of Vietnam have offered their condolences. “The government hopes that the Plum Village community will continue the Zen master’s vision and aspiration for engaged Buddhism, and so contribute to the prosperity of society, and, together with the wider Buddhist community in Vietnam and abroad, promote peace in the world.”
A thousand people a day have been visiting Tu Hieu Temple to pay their respects. Hundreds of thousands, Buddhist and non-Buddhist, have participated in online memorial services hosted daily by the 11 monasteries he founded in the United States, Europe, and Asia and by more than 1,000 local groups of followers in countless cities and towns.
“The most venerable Thich Nhat Hanh was one of the most respected moral and spiritual figures of our times,” celebrated Buddhist monk and author Matthieu Ricard said. “Not only was he one of the most articulate and inspiring proponents of Buddhist teachings and practice, but he was also a beacon of truth in his nonviolent campaigning for human rights.”
A peace activist from a very early age, Thich Nhat Hanh renewed Buddhism, bringing it off the meditation cushion and into the challenging secular world, not only coining the term “engaged Buddhism,” but actually living it. For more than half a century, he tirelessly used his global platform to promote social justice and equality as the roots of peace. Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, said, “Thich Nhat Hanh was a lifelong peace advocate who taught that polarization can be overcome as we nurture tolerance, inclusiveness, and the understanding of our deep interconnection with all human beings.”
Thich Nhat Hanh did not shy away from global challenges. Author of more than 100 books, he was one of the pioneers of spiritual environmentalism, organizing international conferences and writing about ecology and climate change starting in the early 1970s. More than half a million people have trained in his mindfulness practices and committed themselves to follow his path of applied global ethics, The Five Mindfulness Trainings. His last book published only a few months ago, Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet blazes a path forward through individual mindfulness, collective awakening, and the global healing that is so urgently necessary.
Christiana Figueres, former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change and a student of Thich Nhat Hanh’s, credits his teachings for having made the Paris Agreement on climate change possible: “From Thay (“teacher,” in Vietnamese) I learned much but perhaps the most important was the skill of deep listening as an avenue to conflict resolution, helping to melt away countless political barriers in the negotiations. His insights and practices helped to open a new fertile space of collaboration through which governments were able to come to the historic agreement.” His applied mindfulness practices will be a treasure-trove for generations of changemakers to come. Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore said: “Thich Nhat Hanh’s legacy is one of insight, compassion, and respect for our planet and for one another. His memory and teachings will continue to inspire the next generation of environmental and social activists in the enduring struggle to protect the Earth and its people.”
As Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastic and lay students continue to share his teachings and carry his legacy forward internationally, it is also their deep wish to bring his practices of mindful breathing, walking, consuming, and compassionate communication to all areas of society in his native Vietnam: to families and schools, workplaces, businesses, and hospitals. Thich Nhat Hanh has demonstrated that mindfulness retreats and courses, born from the Vietnamese Buddhist tradition, have the power to bring healing, wellbeing, and prosperity to both individuals and society. Thich Nhat Hanh’s community has said, “We make the vow to realize Thay’s wish to bring back these practices, which have brought so many fruits of healing and peace to the West, as an offering to our spiritual and land ancestors in Vietnam.”
CEO of Boston Global Forum Nguyen Anh Tuan highly respects Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan called to pay tribute the Zen Master by practicing concepts of Thich Nhat Hanh in life.
https://plumvillage.org/press-releases/global-outpouring-of-love-and-gratitude-for-zen-master-thich-nhat-hanh/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/21/world/asia/thich-nhat-hanh-dead.html
https://vietnamnet.vn/vn/thoi-su/hang-ngan-nguoi-do-ve-hue-dua-tien-thien-su-thich-nhat-hanh-ve-coi-niet-ban-812618.html
