by Editor | Feb 15, 2021 | News
John A. Quelch is the Leonard M. Miller University Professor and Vice Provost at the University of Miami and Dean of Miami Business School. He is also the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School. Until 2017, he held a joint primary appointment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as Professor of Health Policy and Management.
Professor John Quelch is a co-founder of the Boston Global Forum, which he will talk about at “A City for 100 Year of United Nations”
Ramu Damodaran, Chief of United Nations Academic Impact and Editor-in-Chief of United Nations Chronicle Magazine, will moderate this UN 2045 Roundtable.
Other panelists include Governor Michael Dukakis, Chair of the Boston Global Forum; Professor Thomas Patterson, Harvard University, President of AIWS University; Professor Alex Sandy Pentland, MIT; and Mr. Le Tuan Phong, Governor of Binh Thuan, Mr. Bui Thanh Nhon, Chairman of Novaland.
Time: 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST, February 21st, 2021
by Editor | Feb 15, 2021 | Event Updates
Among the issues addressed by the Panel are the following:
- Reviewing legal frameworks for AI and identifying essential elements for a international AI legal framework.
- Defining methods to present abuses by governments and businesses in uses of AI, Data, Digital Technology, Cyberspace, (including attacking companies, organizations, and individuals on the Internet)
- Articulating norms to manage robotics and cybersecurity, protecting Social Contract for the AI Age, democratic values, transparency, and accountability while ensuring equal opportunities across diverse socio-economic landscapes.
- Supporting the provisions of the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime as well as the EU General Directives and/or incorporating basic principles thereof.
- Sanctioning entities –including governments, businesses, and not-for profit actors — who violate the AI International Accord and/or Social Contract for the AI Age).
Speakers: Governor Michael Dukakis; President Vaira Vike-Freiberga; Prime Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija; Professor Nazli Choucri (MIT); Merve Hickok, the founder of AIEthicist; Ambassador Raghavan P.S, Chairman of the National Security Advisory Board, India.
Time: 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST, February 19th, 2021
The AI International Accord Panel will be moderated by Douglas Frantz.
Douglas Frantz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, and former Deputy Secretary-General of the OECD. Frantz served as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs in the Obama administration. He was an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and The New York Times. Frantz graduated from DePauw University and earned a M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
by Editor | Feb 7, 2021 | AIWS and the Age of Global Enlightenment
On January 31, 2021, Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, Director of Michael Dukakis Institute visited NovaWorld Phan Thiet and discussed with NovaWorld Phan Thiet leaders about building a branch of Michael Dukakis Institute and the History of AI House at NovaWorld Phan Thiet.
This is a part of cooperation between AIWS City and NovaWorld Phan Thiet.
The History of AI House is a part of AIWS City, will be located at ocean view with modern and smart infrastructure, combined with natural beauty.
by Editor | Feb 7, 2021 | News
After introduction at the Computers, Privacy, and Data Protection Conference, the AI International Accord Initiative (AIIA) will be discussed at the AIIA Roundtable. Some of the content that will be discussed at this Roundtable are below:
– The current legal frameworks for AI and the essential elements of a global AI legal framework.
– Responsibilities of governments and companies in protecting data and privacy
– Preventing abuses by governments and businesses in AI, Data, Digital Technology, Cyberspace, including attacking companies, organizations, and individuals on the Internet.
– Creating norms to manage robotics and cyber-security
– Protecting Social Contract for the AI Age, democratic values, transparency, and accountability while ensuring equal opportunities across the socio-economic landscape.
– Collaboration and responsibility between governments and businesses in preventing international cybercrimes and criminals.
– Punishing governments and businesses which violate AI International Accord and/or Social Contract for the AI Age.
Moderator: Doug Frantz, Pulitzer Prize Journalist, former Assistant Secretary of State
Panelists: Governor Michael Dukakis, Chair of the Boston Global Forum, Professor Nazli Choucri, MIT, Board Member of Michael Dukakis Institute, Prime Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija, Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO of the Boston Global Forum.
Time: 9:00 am EST, 02/19/2021
by Editor | Feb 7, 2021 | News
On 02/21/2021, Ramu Damodaran, Chief of United Nations Academic Impact and Editor-in-Chief of United Nations Chronicle Magazine, will moderate UN 2045 Roundtable “A City for 100 Year of United Nations”.
What is a city in 2045, when the UN turns 100?
The Speakers are Governor Michael Dukakis, Chair of the Boston Global Forum; Professor Thomas Patterson, Harvard University, President of AIWS University; Professor John Quelch, Harvard Business School, co-founder of the Boston Global Forum; and Governor of Binh Thuan, Mr. Bui Thanh Nhon, Chairman of Novaland.
The Roundtable is hosted at 9:00 am EST, 02/21/2021
by Editor | Feb 7, 2021 | Event Updates
World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid (WLA-CdM) joins the Boston Global Forum (BGF) and Michael Dukakis Institute (MDI) in building AI World Society, a new society in the AI and Digital Age. This is collaboration will be running for 5 years.
In 2021, BGF and WLA-CdM will co-organize a Policy Lab about AI International Accord, the fifth layer of AI World Society.
In 2022, BGF and WLA-CdM will co-organize the policy dialog about a new economy, a new Bretton Woods, and a new financial system in AI World Society.
AI World Society City will be an ecosystem to practice and apply the new economy and financial system.
by Editor | Jan 31, 2021 | News
On January 28, 2021, Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO of the Boston Global Forum presented AI International Accord Initiative at the panel “Toward an International Accord on AI”, together with
Marit Hansen, State Data Protection Commissioner of Land Schleswig-Holstein (Germany); Eva Kalli, MEP (EU), Malavika Jayaram, Digital Asia Hub (Hong Kong).
Here is Tuan presentation:
- Scope:
- To create a framework for the AI International Accord
- To establish a Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance in order to support the AI International Accord and Social Contract for the AI Age
- To frame a Monitoring System that observes governments and big tech companies in uses and abuses of AI and notable violations of AI International Accord and of Social Contract for the AI Age.
- To practice the Framework at AIWS City
- Key concepts and content of AI International Accord (AIIA):
Among the key topics for discussion will be:
– The current legal frameworks for AI and the essential elements of a global AI legal framework.
– Responsibilities of governments and companies in protecting data and privacy
– Preventing abuses by governments and businesses in AI, Data, Digital Technology, Cyberspace, including attacking companies, organizations, and individuals on the Internet.
– Creating norms to manage robotics and cyber-security
– Protecting Social Contract for the AI Age, democratic values, transparency, and accountability while ensuring equal opportunities across the socio-economic landscape.
– Collaboration and responsibility between governments and businesses in preventing international cybercrimes and criminals.
– Punishing governments and businesses which violate AI International Accord and/or Social Contract for the AI Age.
- Process:
- AIIA Team create a Framework
- Discussion:
+ AIIA Panels organized by Boston Global Forum and Michael Dukakis Institute
+ Quad Roundtables organized by Boston Global Forum and Riga Conference 2021
- Connect with governments and international organizations
- Set up alliances to implement and practice
- Practice at AIWS City
- Endorse:
- First step: Quad group and EU
- Second step: OECD countries
- Third step: United Nations
- Fourth step: Russia and China
- Host and Partners:
Host: Boston Global Forum and Michael Dukakis Institute
Partners:
World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid
Riga Conference 2021
United Nations Academic Impact
Potential Partners:
European Commission
US, Japan, Australia, India, Sweden, Latvia Governments
Timeline of key events:
Quad Roundtable April, 2021
AIIA
Riga Conference 2021
Session about AIIA
World Leadership Alliance – Club de Madrid, September 2021
World Leaders and AIIA
AIWS City as the place to apply and respect AIIA
Boston Global Forum December 12, 2021
Announce the AIIA Accord and present World Leader for Peace and Security 2021 who made significant contributions to AIIA
- Leaders: Governor Michael Dukakis, President Ursula von der Leyen
- Team:
– Nazli Choucri
– Tuan Nguyen
– Thomas Patterson
– David Silbersweig
– Merve Hickok
– Alex Sandy Pentland
– Vint Cerf
– Prime Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija
– President Vaira Vike-Freiberga,
– Prime Minister Esko Aho,
– Yasuhide Nakayama
– Douglas Frantz
– P.S Raghavan
– Kimberley Kitching
– Zaneta Ozolina
– Stavros Lambrinidis
– Judea Pearl
– Randall Davis
Assistants: Sandis Sraders, Larissa Zutter, Minh Nguyen
Official Online Host of events and discussions:
AIWS Palace at AIWS City
by Editor | Jan 31, 2021 | Event Updates
On January 28, 2021, the Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP) at Michael Dukakis Institute organized the TOWARD AN INTERNATIONAL ACCORD ON AI Panel at the 14th Computers, Privacy, and Data Protection Conference at Brussels.
Speakers: Nguyen Anh Tuan, Michael Dukakis Institute (US); Malavika Jayaram, Digital Asia Hub (HK); Marit Hansen, State Data Protection Commissioner of Land Schleswig-Holstein (DE); Eva Kalli, MEP (EU)
There is growing support for an international legal framework for AI. In 2019, the OECD countries announced the AI Principles, which were then adopted by the G-20 nations. In 2020, the European Commission proposed a Transatlantic Agreement on AI. And in 2021, the Council of Europe is likely to propose an International treaty for AI, similar to the COE Privacy Convention, on January 25, 2021, Boston Global Forum and Michael Dukakis Institute announced AI International Accord Intiative.
All of this AI policy activity points toward the establishment of an International Accord on AI. This panel will explore
the current state of affairs and the next steps.
- What are the current legal frameworks for AI?
- What are the essential elements of a global AI legal framework?
- What are the plans to establish an International accord on AI?
Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, Director of MDI presented AI International Accord Initiative at the panel.
by Editor | Jan 24, 2021 | News
Introducing the Goddess of AIWS Innovation: in the style of Athena, an Eagle brings olive as Innovation Goddess of AIWS City.
AIWS Innovation Goddess is one of wisdom, intellectual, visionary, courage, inspiration, civilization, law and justice, victory, mathematics, artificial intelligence, strength, strategy, the arts, crafts, peace, security, and prosperity.
