by Editor | Nov 30, 2020 | News
AAAS Fellows are elected each year by their peers serving on the Council of AAAS, the organization’s member-run governing body. The title recognizes important contributions to STEM disciplines, including pioneering research, leadership within a given field, teaching and mentoring, fostering collaborations, and advancing public understanding of science.
Professor Nazli Choucri, MIT, Board Member of the Michael Dukakis Institute and the AIWS City, Co-author of the Social Contract for the AI Age, was elected as AAAS Fellow in social, economic, and political sciences for innovative contributions and continuing impact at the interface of international relations and cybersecurity and for work on global sustainability problems and solution strategies.
The tradition of electing AAAS Fellows began in 1874. Since then, the recognition has gone to thousands of distinguished scientists, such as inventor Thomas Edison, elected in 1878, sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois (1905), anthropologist Margaret Mead (1934), computer scientist Grace Hopper (1963), physicist Steven Chu (2000), and astronaut Ellen Ochoa (2012). The 2020 group contains members of each of AAAS’s 24 sections.
AAAS Fellowship often precedes other accolades in long and impactful careers. Two of the 2020 Nobel laureates announced last month, Jennifer Doudna and Charles Rice, are AAAS Fellows. Doudna and a research collaborator received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of the CRISPR/Cas9 genome editor, while Rice and two colleagues received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for contributions to the discovery of the virus that causes Hepatitis C.
AAAS leadership has long encouraged its sections and Council to consider diversity when nominating and selecting Fellows, and the association has taken recent steps toward solidifying its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
by Editor | Nov 30, 2020 | News
Every year, on December 12, at Global Cybersecurity Day, the Boston Global Forum and the Michael Dukakis Institute organizes a ceremony to honor and present the World Leader for Peace and Security Award at the prestigious Loeb House, Harvard University. This year, due to Covid-19, the ceremony will be online at AIWS Palace of AIWS City.
AIWS Palace is place to host or organize online significant, prestigious, and notable events:
- Events to announce new ideas, concepts, initiatives, solutions, high impact in society.
- High impact events, historical events.
- Prestigious speakers.
- Significant events of governments, leaders as G7 Summit, the Riga Conference, Munich Conference, World Economic Forum, World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid, the Boston Global Forum, Michael Dukakis Institute, AIWS, CAIDP.
- Significant events linked to or require attention from G7, OECD governments, influential leaders.
- Honored events: World Leaders, AIWS Distinguished Lectures, Nobel Prize, Pulitzer, 100 TIME influential people.
Citizens, companies, and organizations at the AIWS City can register to organize events at the AIWS Palace. The AIWS Palace will do PR through media for events at the AIWS Palace.
by Editor | Nov 30, 2020 | News
The Center for AI and Digital Policy today released the first global ranking of countries based on their progress toward AI policies that are innovative, trustworthy and respect human rights and democratic values.
The ground-breaking analysis of AI policies and practices in 30 countries by a team of international experts found ambitious plans and wide disparities, on metrics such as data privacy, face surveillance, and public participation. Some countries are making strong progress. Others have work to do to catch up with this fast-moving and far-reaching technology.
The report – the AI Social Contract Index — was produced by the Center for AI and Digital Policy. The Center is part of the Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation in Boston.
“The response of governments to the complex challenges of artificial intelligence are critical to translate the promise of this technology into economic progress that respects democratic values,” said Governor Dukakis. “The goal of the AI Social Contract Index is to develop a baseline for best practices and to ensure that AI fulfills its potential to improve growth and well-being around the world.”
The year-long assessment focuses on fundamental rights, rule of law, and democratic governance. Policies and practices were evaluated for top 25 countries by gross domestic product and five other high-impact countries. The AI Index will be updated annually as national policies evolve and as more countries and new issues are added to the assessment.
The AI Social Contract Index will be announced at the World Leader for Peace and Security Award ceremony at AIWS Palace of the AIWS City on December 12, 2020.
by Editor | Nov 30, 2020 | Event Updates
As tradition, on December 12 every year, the Boston Global Forum (BGF) will organize the Global Cybersecurity Day at Loeb House, Harvard University. However, in the strange and eventful 2020, BGF will organize this online at AI World Society Palace of AIWS City.
The Agenda include the presentation of World Leader for Peace and Security Award 2020, AI Social Contract Index 2020, the Quad Roundtable Special Report, and the World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid and Boston Global Forum Report.
This is the first time Global Cybersecurity Day is organized at the AIWS City. BGF will also introduce the agenda of 2021 in collaboration with World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid, with the Riga Conference 2021, and with NovaWorld Phan Thiet.
The first Global Cybersecurity Day was December 12, 2015 at Harvard University Faculty Club, with congratulations from Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon. Fron the second on, it was organized at the Loeb House. Governor Michael Dukakis is the moderator of Global Cybersecurity Day. Speakers from previous Global Cybersecurity Days include Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Finnish President Sauli Niinisto, Latvian and Wolrd Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid President Vaira Vike-Freiberga, UK Member of Parliament Liam Byrne, Japanese Minister of Defense and Foreign Affair Taro Kono, Christopher Painter Coordinator for Cyber Issue, US State Department, US Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy, Professor Joseph Nye, Harvard, father of the soft power theory, Professor Alex Pentland, MIT.
AIWS City is an prestigious virtual digital city, an initiative of the Boston Global Forum and Michael Dukakis Institute, that connects notable values, world gem cities, preeminent figures, and applications of pioneering AI and digital technology, in addition to application AIWS Values to serve members.
The first announcement of AIWS City was August 21, 2020 at the United Nations 2045 Roundtable with keynote speaker Vint Cerf and speakers Governor Michael Dukakis, Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, and Prime Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija.
by Editor | Nov 26, 2020 | News
by Editor | Nov 23, 2020 | News
MIT Connection Science, in collaboration with the World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid (WLA-CdM) and the Boston Global Forum, is working to bring about a new paradigm in global trade, finance, and governance systems. With tools to securely collect, share, and analyze data, governments and communities can build better systems for health, monetary exchange, economic development, trade, and more. Global leaders are beginning to call for a rethinking of old governance systems, which are no longer meeting the challenges of the times.
In 1944, world leaders from 44 nations convened at the Mount Washington hotel in Bretton Woods, NH in an attempt to heal and revitalize the world economy following WWII. The solutions they developed were not perfect, but they laid the foundations for the global financial systems and multilateral organizations that still exist and shape the world today, including the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (precursor to the World Bank). The Bretton Woods accord helped bring stability to a turbulent world ravaged by conflict. However, the relative stability of global economic policy is today giving way to renewed turmoil.
“Unfortunately,” says MIT Connection Science Director, Prof. Sandy Pentland, Member of the AIWS City’s Board of Leaders, “the systems and institutions established at Bretton Woods are proving too slow and too siloed to address the world’s current problems. Not since WWII have public debt and the national economies of so many nations been in such disarray.”
Governance of digital platforms has become unexpectedly urgent.
The article can be read here.
by Editor | Nov 23, 2020 | News
On November 20, 2020, the official logo of the AIWS City was launched.
This is the official logo of the AIWS City:
From this week, AIWS Weekly will start to introduce AIWS City.
AIWS is an elite virtual city, connected to real world gems. By entering the AIWS City, people can:
- Connect, discuss, and learn from preeminent figures of AIWS City.
- Enjoy world gems such Boston, Athens, Rome, Paris, London, Washington DC, Tokyo, etc.
- Learn from distinguished professors and thinkers from top universities such as Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge
- Learn with innovators and leaders of the AIWS City
- Discover new opportunities.
- Join Intellectual Society
Preeminent figures of the AIWS City who respect and apply Social Contract for the AI Age, create Intellectual Society, and citizens of the AIWS City can join Intellectual Society and practice its elite norms, standards.
Elite ecosystem includes AIWS Universities, Palace, Concert Hall, and more than 30 World Gem Cities.
Next week, we will introduce the AIWS University.
by Editor | Nov 23, 2020 | News
The World Leadership Alliance – Club de Madrid has released an op-ed titled “International experts call for new “Bretton Woods” agreement to rebalance digital economy”. It can be downloaded and read here.
by Editor | Nov 23, 2020 | Event Updates
Nguyen Anh Tuan introduced AIWS solutions at the Riga Conference 2020, such as Social Contract for the AI Age, AI and Digital International Accord, Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance, and the AIWS City at the Plenary Session “DEMOCRACY, TECHNOLOGIES AND THE INFODEMIC”
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is here, reaching far beyond technological developments and future economies. Its speed is exponential, causing deep systemic change in every aspect of human life and societal transformation. Its nature is both – highly creative and disruptive. One example is modern information technologies. They enable the spread of information at such a speed and volume, that it affects national and international economies, politics and security in ways utterly disproportionate with the root realities. An infodemic is a blend of “information” and “epidemic” that typically refers to a rapid, overwhelming and far-reaching spread of both accurate and inaccurate information about an issue. An infodemic could do more harm than a global health crisis. The infodemic has been a factor in implementing a range of COVID-19 pandemic related government policies.
Līga Raita Rozentāle, Senior Director of European Cybersecurity Policy, Microsoft
Ieva Ilvesa, Adviser to the President of Latvia for Information and Digital Policy
Prof. Filippo Menczer, Director of the Observatory on Social Media, Indiana University
Hannes Krause, Head of Strategic Communication at the Government Office of the Republic of Estonia
Moderator: Dr. Gunda Reire, Advisor to the Minister at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
Panelists discuss and answer questions: What are the tangible consequences of an infodemic in terms of economies, politics and security? Have new technologies influenced our perception and core value systems, for better or worse? How could governments use new technologies to shape discourses for long-term, strategic objectives?
Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan called for an AI and Digital International Accord. The Riga Conference 2020 was attended by the European Commission President and Executive Vice President, as well as presidents, prime ministers from the Baltic region, ministers of the UK, France, Canada, Japan, and legislators of the US, EU, Australia, etc.
