by Admin | Apr 17, 2016 | AI World Society Summit
(April 18th, 2016) Nguyen Anh Tuan, chief executive of The Boston Global Forum (BGF), met on April 13 with Nazli Choucri, a professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an expert in international cyberrelations.
She was principal investigator and director of a multi-disciplinary MIT-Harvard research project called “Explorations in Cyber International Relations’’.
They discussed how to encourage the national leaders at the G7 Summit on May 26-27 in Japan to adopt and enforce norms of cyberbehavior as developed over the past few months by BGF cybersecurity experts. This is part of The Boston Global Forum’s BGF-G7 Summit Initiative, whose biggest theme this year is improving international cybersecurity.
Professor Choucri suggested several useful ideas to advance this project. She will be a speaker at the BGF-G7 Summit Initiative conference on May 9 at the Harvard Faculty Club, in Cambridge, Mass.
by Admin | Apr 15, 2016 | Initiative
(April 18th, 2016) China last week summoned envoys from the Group of Seven (G7) industrialized democracies to complain about a G7 statement opposing provocation in the East and South China Seas. The G7 was responding to Chinese militarization of small reefs and islands that China has seized in the South China Sea as well as to its implied threats against Japan, a G7 member, over disputed islands in the East Asia Sea.
The Boston Global Forum (bostonglobalforum.org) has been closely following matters regarding the G7 Summit in its BGF-G7 Summit Initiative. In that project it has been working with Japanese officials to craft proposals for consideration by the national leaders at the summit, to be held in Japan on May 26-27.
China claims almost the entire South China Sea, believed to have huge oil and gas deposits, and has been building islands on reefs to bolster its claims. Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims in the sea, through which about $5 trillion in trade is shipped every year.
G7 leaders are expected to discuss Chinese expansionism at the summit. There has been some informal discussion of creating a NATO-like alliance to thwart Chinese plans.
by Admin | Apr 17, 2016 | AI World Society Summit
(April 18th, 2016) Here’s a look, in the wake of the “Panama Papers’’ scandal about how rich and/or powerful people hide money in offshore accounts, at how cyberhackers are challenging the establishment in Pakistan.
by Admin | Apr 15, 2016 | Event Updates
(April 18th, 2016) The G7 Summit will consider global health concerns (which will presumably include the spread of the Zika virus). As host country of the G7 Summit in 2016, Japan will have a larger role than usual in setting the tone for how global health priorities will be addressed in the summit agenda.
Thus the Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE), in partnership with the University of Tokyo, has organized a Global Health Working Group (GHWG) to craft policy proposals to guide summit talks on global health and health security.
The working group’s themes include:
• Sustainability of universal health coverage (UHC) in advanced nations in the context of demographic changes, industrial structure and epidemics.
• Social and economic impact of UHC.
• Lessons learned from Japan’s experience sustaining UHC.
• Japan’s new directions in global health cooperation.
• Challenges in global health governance.
• Better mechanism for global health innovation
by Admin | Apr 15, 2016 | AI World Society Summit
(April 18th, 2016) European Union privacy regulators want changes to a proposed new EU-U.S. Digital- privacy accord. The Wall Street Journal thinks that this pushback increases the likelihood that the deal will end up challenged in court, leaving “thousands of companies that transfer personal information across the Atlantic in legal limbo.’’
“A body representing national data-protection authorities in the E.U.’s 28 states said the trans-Atlantic deal, dubbed Privacy Shield, should include clearer limits on how U.S. surveillance agencies conduct bulk collection of personal information for national security purposes to ensure that the accord conforms with E.U. privacy law.’’
Much of the uneasiness stems from Edward Snowden’s revelations of U.S. government surveillance created because of fears of more terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. Mr. Snowden now lives in Russia.
