by Editor | Nov 15, 2020 | News
With more than 2 hours of discussion, panelists Governor Michael Dukakis, Japanese State Minister of Defense Yasuhide Nakayama, Australian Senator Kimberley Kitching, Chair, Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee, Ambassador P.S Raghavan, Chair of the National Security Advisory Board, India, with moderator Sandis Šrāders, Member of the Board of the Latvian Transatlantic Organisation spoke about various issues relating to the Quad.
This was the first Quad Roundtable, co-organized by LATO at the Riga Conference 2020 with attendance of the President and Executive Vice-President of European Commission, Presidents of Baltic countries, Secretary General of NATO, Ministers of Defense from the UK, Canada, France, Japan, and Baltic countries.
The outcome of the Quad Roundtable is a Special Report with recommendations to President of the United Nations, PMs of Japan, Australia, and India, and also to leaders of the EU, UK, Germany, France, Canada and Latvia.
Suggestion Solutions from this Quad Roundtable:
+ Using the Social Contract for the AI Age as standards in international relations, as TCP/IP in political connection between countries, governments, and companies. Democratic governments implement the Social Contract for the AI Age.
+ Alliance between Quad and NATO to maintain world peace and security.
+ Alliance between the Quad Group and the EU in maintaining democracy values.
+ Building International Accord in AI and Digital to protect digital and AI democracy
From this Quad Roundtable, the Boston Global Forum established the Quad Roundtable Board include panelists of the Quad Roundtable at the Riga Conference 2020, and Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO of the Boston Global Forum. The executive team is Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, Dr. Sandis Šrāders, Member of the Board of the Latvian Transatlantic Organisation, Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki, Professor Nazli Choucri, MIT, Board Member of the Boston Global Forum, Marc Rotenberg, Director of Center for AI and Digital Policy at Michael Dukakis Institute.
Video of the Quad Roundtable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hfThoG8L-w
by Editor | Nov 15, 2020 | News
Vietnam Investment Review- Novaland Group and Michael Dukakis Institute (MDI) for Leadership and Innovation on November 11 held an online meeting to update upcoming plans more than a month after signing a strategic partnership contract.
According to the contract, both sides will establish the Michael Dukakis Institute-Vietnam in NovaWorld Phan Thiet (Binh Thuan province) to organize leadership and creative training programs in the era of AI at NovaWorld Phan Thiet.
The programme will be taught online by professors, scholars, and leaders from the US and other member countries of the Artificial Intelligence World Society Innovation Network (AIWS.net).
At the same time, MDI will support the implementation of a series of AI World Society programmes at NovaWorld Phan Thiet such as building the world’s first the History of AI house, the Vint Cerf House, the Michael Dukakis House, programmes of AI summer camps for students of all ages, and annual AIWS award events (World Leader in AIWS ).
The Michael Dukakis Institute – Vietnam will start organizing events in Phan Thiet, Binh Thuan from 2021.
According to Bui Thanh Nhon, chairman of Novaland Group, this cooperation will further increase the value of NovaWorld Phan Thiet, a new destination for the world, where people will come to live, work, relax, or travel and feel like they are living in one of the great centres and have access to the elites of the world.
“With favourable climatic conditions and natural beauty, transportation infrastructure, and facilities that meet the standards of major international events, NovaWorld Phan Thiet will make Phan Thiet an attractive and favourite destination for tourism, resorts, conferences – seminars in the world,” Nhon said at the meeting.
According to Michael Dukakis, president of MDI, the institute is ready to cooperate with Novaland to build NovaWorld Phan Thiet into an innovative centre for both technologies and culture in the AI century. “Together we can contribute to a better world,” Dukakis said.
Vin Cerf, one of the fathers of the internet believed that the cooperation between Novaland and MDI will bring benefit to all people. “I myself and many other colleagues from famous universities in the world will share information and hand over innovative ideas, as well as new and advanced solutions to Vietnam,” said Cerf.
Professor Alex Sandy Pentland from Massachusets Institute of Technology (MIT) shared his experiences on building a city with advanced infrastructure system, bringing many benefits to global communications.
“The MIT has worked with many partners from Singapore, Australia, and Taiwan to develop those countries and now we are heading for this good cooperation in Vietnam,” Pentland said.
AI is a crucial technology in Vietnam and globally, serving digital transformation, providing solutions for products and services to develop smart urban models.
Nazli Choucri from MIT also commented, “This cooperation is a testament to promoting AI development among countries around the world, that collaboration from many units will be more effective than each individual working individually. We all hope the future will reach new things that we have never experienced,” Chourci said.
Apart from these key speakers, the online discussion also featured a range of other distinguished guests, including Thomas Patterson (Harvard University), Marc Rotenberg (director of the Center for AI and Digital Policy of MDI), Nguyen Anh Tuan (director of MDI, co-founder of The AI World Society Innovation Network – AIWS.net), John Quelch (Harvard Business School, co-founder of Boston Global Forum), as well as leaders from Novaland Group and leaders of the Binh Thuan Provincial Party Committee.
NovaWorld Phan Thiet has a strategic location in Phan Thiet city, Binh Thuan province – a famous region for its blue seas, white sand, golden sunshine, and stable year-round climate. The project is conveniently connected to Ho Chi Minh City, a massive metropolis of 15 million people, and other big cities via international airports, seaports, railways, and highways.
Across 1,000 hectares with 7km of coastline, McKinsey-consulted NovaWorld Phan Thiet is set to become an attractive destination of premier resorts, shopping malls, dining, entertainment, as well as education, health, and sports. The project master plan was created by leading design consultants including Aedas and Nikken Sekkei.
With a total investment of nearly $5 billion, NovaWorld Phan Thiet has hundreds of outstanding facilities.
Being one of the first-ever megaprojects applying AI technology in Vietnam, NovaWorld will host a long list of international events all year round such as golf tournaments, professional tennis tournaments, Olympic sports competitions, kite surfing, beauty contests, fashion, music festivals, and more.
Tournaments and events will take place continuously, creating a bustling, fantastic environment and ensuring that NovaWorld Phan Thiet is an exciting and attractive destination, a remarkable take on Novaland Group’s mission: creating “destinations”
The Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation was founded and is led by Michael Dukakis, with the participation of top professors from Harvard University and MIT.
Governor Michael Dukakis and leaders of MDI will support Novaland to build NovaWorld Phan Thiet to become a bright spot of technological and cultural innovation in the AI era; a gathering place for leaders, innovators, and the elite of the world.
This will link NovaWorld Phan Thiet to AIWS City and AIWS University and make NovaWorld Phan Thiet a destination for the AI community around the world.
Novaland Group has been a leading, prestigious brand in the property investment and development industry in Vietnam during the past 28 years.
The group’s total landbank is approximately 5,000ha, which is used for three key product suites, including real estate in central Ho Chi Minh City, satellite urban areas in Dong Nai province, and second-home projects and integrated resorts in major tourism destination provinces.
Novaland is willing to cooperate with world-class professional advisors and management companies to promote sustainable tourism development in accordance with the National Tourism Development Strategy, build smart ecological urban cities and high-class tourist destinations, and contribute to Vietnam’s imprint on the world tourism map.
https://www.vir.com.vn/novaland-cooperates-with-michael-dukakis-institute-to-add-ai-to-novaworld-phan-thiet-80687.html
by Editor | Nov 15, 2020 | News
Excellent computer science graduate students of LETI “ETU” started studying the AI World Society Leadership Master Program. They will study by innovative concepts: learning by practicality, practicing leadership through projects. They will be assigned readings from professors who are Board Members of Michael Dukakis Institute and Members of AIWS.net. They will attend projects and practice as young leaders at the AIWS City.
Professors of LETI will teach them AI technology. Leaders and professors of Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation will teach and develop leadership. After graduation the AIWS Leadership Master Degree, leaders and professors continue to advise them in their careers. All students of the AIWS Leadership Master Degree program in turn have to respect and commit applying the Social Contract for the AI Age and AI Ethics of Michael Dukakis Institute and bring them to communities.
Professors Mikhail Kupriyanov, First Vice-Rector, D.Sc., Professor, Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kirill Krinkin of LETI ”ETU”, Saint Petersburg, Russia Governor Michael Dukakis, Chairman, and Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, Director of Michael Dukakis Institute, are the leaders of this program.
by Editor | Nov 15, 2020 | Event Updates
The Riga Conference 2020 was a great success with final session, including panelists Baltic presidents of Finland Sauli Niinisto, Kersti Kaljulaid of Estonia, Egils Levits of Latvia and Gitanas Nausėda of Lithuania. The President of European Commission stressed in her speech that “the Riga Conference has become a key of annual appointment for transatlantic relation.”
The Paper “SOCIAL CONTRACT FOR THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AGE. SAFETY, SECURITY, & SUSTAINABILITY FOR AI WORLD” by Nazli Choucri, Nguyen Anh Tuan, Marc Rotenberg was published as a Policy Brief at the Riga Conference 2020
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the Rīga Conference 2020 said during his speech,
“NATO 2030 has three objectives.
First, it’s about staying strong militarily.In a challenging security environment, we need to continue to invest in deterrence and defence. Not only in tanks and bullets. But also in cyber and other new capabilities.
Second, we must make NATO a stronger political Alliance. It’s not news that Allies sometimes have their differences. But NATO is the only place where North America and Europe meet every day. So it’s the best place to sit down, remember what unites us, and solve our differences together.
And third, NATO needs a more global approach. Not because we want to be a global alliance. But because so many of the challenges we face are global. Like terrorism, cyber-threats, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and of course the rise of China. So we need to work ever more closely with our partners. And with other organisations like the United Nations and the European Union, to protect our values and way of life. And to defend the global rules-based order.”
Ministers of Defense of the UK, Canada, France, Japan and the Baltic countries were speakers at the Riga Conference 2020.
In discussions with his co-panelists, the defence ministers Mr. Jüri Luik from Estonia, Dr. Artis Pabriks from Latvia, and the Rt Hon Ben Wallace from the United Kingdom, Minister Sajjan also stressed the important role defence investment can play in economic recovery. Additionally, the panel discussed how NATO members needed to stand united and move forward cohesively in order to combat the worst effects of the pandemic. Minister Sajjan highlighted the importance of integrating the concept of resilience in our national and collective defence approaches, allowing Canada and its NATO Allies to help overcome complex challenges, such as COVID-19.
Link to download:
https://www.rigaconference.lv/wp-content/uploads/Social-Contract-for-the-Artificial-Intelligence-Age.pdf
by Editor | Nov 8, 2020 | News
To promote and support resolutions for world peace and security, the Boston Global Forum conceived the idea to organize Quad Roundtable. The Quad Roundtable will include leaders from the US, Japan, Australia, and India to discuss challenges and solutions for world peace and security. The Quad Roundtable can contribute urgent suggestions to governments of the US, Japan, Australia and India.
The first Quad Roundtable is co-organized with the Latvian Transatlantic Organisation (LATO) as a special side event at the Riga Conference 2020, at 7:30 am – 9:30 am EST, November 12, 2020.
In this first Quad Roundtable, the keynote speakers are Governor Michael Dukakis, Chairman of the Boston Global Forum (USA), Yasuhide Nakayama, Defense State Minister (Japan), Senator Kimberley Kitching, Chair of Foreign Affair, Defence and Trade Reference Committee (Australia), Ambassador P.S Raghavan, Chairman of the National Security Advisory Board (India). The Roundtable will discuss “the Quad Group, AIWS Social Contract and solutions for world peace and security”.
Professor Nazli Choucri, (MIT), co-founder of AIWS.net, will present the Social Contract for the AI Age. Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO of the Boston Global Forum, will introduce next steps of the Quad Roundtable.
by Editor | Nov 8, 2020 | News
On November 11, 2020, at 07:45 ICT (19:45 EST), Chairman of the Novaland Group Bui Thanh Nhon will meet Governor Michael Dukakis, co-founder and Chairman of Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation, to discuss building AIWS Square, the History of AI House, Michael Dukakis House, Vint Cerf House, and AIWS Leadership Education Program at NovaWorld Phan Thiet, and plan to connect NovaWorld Phan Thiet to the AIWS City in 2021.
Novaland Group has built a World’s Beach City for Wellness, an attractive destination for vacation called NovaWorld Phan Thiet. NovaWorld Phan Thiet is a gem, an urban coastal city, a vacation land and a modern working city with all the requirements to become an ideal destination for world leaders, creators, innovators, and scholars.
Chairman Bui Thanh Nhon said, “We are proud to cooperate with the AIWS City to create NovaWorld Phan Thiet, a city of history, intelligence, and humanity, connecting with other intellectual, cultural and innovative centers around the world, with the standards of the Social Contract in the AI Age, adhering to AIWS City”.
Phan Thiet is a well-known city with blue ocean, white sands, bright sunshine, and modern infrastructure, connecting the region to cities around the world with an international airport, seaports, and highways. Phan Thiet city is also famous for the unique culture and history of the Champa people. Phan Thiet is only 160 km from Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. Phan Thiet provides all the conditions to be a world destination. With the available advantages of this city, Novaland Group has built a World’s Beach City for Wellness, an attractive destination for vacation called NovaWorld Phan Thiet.
by Editor | Nov 8, 2020 | Event Updates
The Quad Roundtable is a special side event of the Rīga Conference 2020, Session Quad Roundtable” the Quad Group, AIWS Social Contract and solutions for world peace and security”, co-organized by the Latvian Transatlantic Organisation (LATO) and the Boston Global Forum (BGF).
The Quadrilateral Initiative – informally named the Quad – first began in May 2007 with a meeting between the US, Japan, India and Australia in the Philippine capital Manila.
The informal grouping, championed by Japan’s then prime minister Shinzo Abe, was viewed by analysts as an attempt to step up co-operation in the face of a rapidly rising China.
Prime Minister Suga told reporters he would seek to “promote a free and open Indo-Pacific” and also “build stable relations with neighbouring countries including China and Russia”. So when Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo greeted each other in front of a bank of American and Japanese flags on October 6, 2020 in Tokyo, they exchanged what was surely the longest fist bump in their nations’ seven-decade alliance, a nearly 15-second joining of knuckles.
On 16-18, September, the World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid and the Boston Global Forum co-organized the Policy Lab “Transatlantic Approaches on Digital Governance: A New Social Contract in the Age of AI”, in which presidents, prime ministers, distinguished thinkers, and scholars discussed the Social Contract for the AI Age, and saw it as significant standards for world politics and economy in the 21st century.
How can the Quad Group support and maintain peace and security? What is the role of each member?
How can the Quad contribute to peace and security in the European, Atlantic, and Baltic regions?
How can democratic governments support and use the Social Contract for the AI Age as standards for international relations and for peace and security?
How can democratic governments recognize and implement the Social Contract for the AI Age?
14:30-14:40 Opening Remarks
Sandis Šrāders, Member of the Board of the Latvian Transatlantic Organisation
14:35-14:40
Social Contract for the AI Age, presenter Professor Nazli Choucri (MIT)
14:40-15:00
Speech of Governor Michael Dukakis, Chairman of the Boston Global Forum (US)
15:00-15:20
Yasuhide Nakayama, Defense State Minister (Japan)
15:20-15:40
Senator Kimberley Kitching, Chair of Foreign Affair, Defence and Trade Reference Committee (Australia)
15:40-16:00
Ambassador P.S Raghavan, Chairman of the National Security Advisory Board (India)
16:00-16:25 Q&A Session
16:25-16.30 Concluding
Sandis Šrāders, Member of the Board of the Latvian Transatlantic Organisation
16:30- 16:40 Thank you and next steps,
Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO of the Boston Global Forum, Co-Founder of the AI World Society Innovation Network
by Editor | Nov 1, 2020 | News
Greece honored Mike Dukakis with Order of Honor of the Grand Commander on Saturday October 24. The award ceremony took place in the yard of the home of Michael Dukakis in the town of Brookline, Massachusetts. Ambassador of Greece to the United States Alexandra Papadopoulou presented Michael Dukakis with the award on behalf of the President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou.
Deputy Foreign Minister Kostas Vlassis participated in the ceremony via internet and in his speech he congratulated Dukakis on his services in political life and in the Greek-American community, as well as for his support of Greek National Issues. He also stressed that his overall career in U.S. public life, always keeping his eyes on Greece, was an example to be imitated and a source of inspiration for the younger generations of Greek-Americans, according to an announcement by the deputy minister’s office.
Dukakis is the longest-serving governor in Massachusetts history and was nominated by the Democratic Party for president in 1988. As a member of the Greek-American Community, he carried out important charitable, social and educational activities.
The original article can be read here.
Governor Michael Dukakis is a co-founder and the Chairman of the Boston Global Forum, AIWS.net, and AIWS City.
by Editor | Nov 1, 2020 | Event Updates
Leaders of AIWS City, including Professor Alex Sandy Pentland (MIT), Professor Nazli Choucri (MIT) and Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan (Boston Global Forum), spoke at World Leadership Alliance – Club de Madrid (WLA-CdM) Policy Dialog October 28-30, 2020. The Boston Global Forum supported WLA-CdM Policy Dialog 2020, and the Call to Action below:
The world is again at a crossroad, confronted with a danger of sliding into a downward spiral of unbridled contest and power politics. But there is an alternative. We must seize this moment to set the world on a new path, a path that will end the assault threatening the foundations of our very existence, particularly that of the most vulnerable amongst us. We have to craft a path that will lead us to an equitable, secure and sustainable system of global cooperation and renewed multilateral institutions, fit for purpose in the 21st century and resilient against future disasters.
- Multilateral cooperation is not an option, it is essential to the preservation of our societal values and the resolution of transnational challenges related to peace and security; economic and financial stability and growth; ecological sustainability, digital transformation; trade; pandemics and others.
- Humankind is capable of transcending existing challenges building bridges, re-establishing trust and working actively and responsibly to manage systemic global risks and transnational challenges to protect the Global Commons.
- Multilateral institutions require increased participation, inclusion, local ownership and capacity of all, from those most impacted by global challenges on the ground to civil society, labor unions, the private sector, State and non-State actors, all the way to the Security Council.
- A forward-looking, viable and people-centered strategy of pragmatic dialogue,solidarity and trust are crucial for a reinvigorated, inclusive and effective multilateralism.
- We will advocate for the needed reforms constructively, decisively and persistently until the multilateral system is transformed into a more responsive framework fit for 21st century purpose.
The full Call to Action can be read here.
