by Admin | Jun 4, 2022 | Event Updates
The Building the Foundation for the Global Digital Economy Conference (Digital Bretton Woods) is organized by Boston Global Forum, EY, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Connection Science, Prosperity Collaborative, and the World Bank on June 27-29, 2022 at MIT.
Global opportunities and challenges call for global action. The world is far past the Washington-consensus, in search of a new development paradigm. A paradigm that must reconcile national strategies for prosperity with the deepening integration of the world’s economies, driven by the digitalization of communication, commerce, and knowledge. This calls for renewed international cooperation and stronger global institutions.
The Digital Bretton Woods conference responds to this challenge through five themes of reinvention:
- Developing a Growth Strategy in the Digital Economy
- Investing in Digital Infrastructure
- Managing Disruptive Technologies
- Strengthening the Governance of Digital Systems
- AIWS Government for Ukraine
These themes are part of a single continuum of reinvention.
The first theme on growth strategies aims to reconceptualize growth in the digital era, recognizing that the systems of value creation are rapidly evolving, the product cycles shorter, and the policy handles changing. Importantly, digitalization calls for a stronger treasury role in coordinating public investments in digital platforms, leveraging big data for evidence-based policy making, and rethinking the government’s role in promoting innovation.
The second theme recognizes that governments play a critical role in regulating and investing in digital infrastructure, including taxation, trade, digital identity, and payment systems. These foundational systems improve how services are delivered to citizens and enable the creation of new markets and ecosystems in which private-sector firms and other players can compete and collaborate.
The third theme explores the opportunities and risks created by emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, blockchain, quantum computing, and the Internet of Things. These innovations can impact critical infrastructure, transform industries, and redefine the way in which governments interact with their citizens. Consequently, the technologies need to be carefully assessed in terms of their economic and society impacts.
Finally, the development of new digital infrastructure and disruptive technologies call for strengthening governance frameworks to ensure that technology design and implementation, and multi-stakeholder collaboration around technology, are equitable and responsible. These governance challenges go beyond improving information security and privacy control. Core issues center around the delegation of decision making to autonomous systems on economic, legal, and administrative matters; reallocating the ownership of data to individuals and local communities; and the creation of trusted, decentralized information systems that respect privacy while promoting transparency and value creation.
This is a very significant event recognized by the Global Alliance for Digital Governance. At this conference, AIWS Government for Ukraine and AIWS City for Ukraine, as parts of the Rebuilding Ukraine program, will be presented and discussed as a pilot project for these reinventions.
Former State Minister of Defense, Yasuhide Nakayama, the leader of Global Alliance for Digital Governance (GADG) in Japan and Taiwan, and other coordinators of GADG will speak at this event.
by Admin | Feb 20, 2022 | Statements, AIWS City and Rebuilding Ukraine, News
Boston, 02/20/2022
We, the Boston Global Forum (BGF), an organization dedicated to promoting a more peaceful world through its World Leader for Peace and Security Award (its recipients have been Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Chancellor Angela Merkel, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President Sauli Niinisto, President Vaira Vike-Freiberga, President Ursula von der Leyen, Riksdag Speaker Andreas Norlen), urgently call upon concerned parties to peacefully resolve the conflict between Russia and Ukraine in a way that upholds the rule of law and the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and legitimate security interests of both nations.
We urge Ukraine to pledge not to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and not accept offensive military weapons on its soil. We urge Russia to pledge respect for the independence of Ukraine on land, air, sea, and cyberspace and to refrain from acts that threaten the territorial integrity of Ukraine and its people’s right to self-determination. We urge other nations to respect these commitments and refrain from acts disruptive thereof.
We urge the world community to respond to the current crisis by developing binding new international rules and instruments to safeguard the rights, interests, and integrity of countries that are too weak on their own to withstand aggressive hostile actions by more powerful countries. We, the Boston Global Forum, commit to assisting in the development of the new international rules and instruments and to advocating for their adoption.
Michael Dukakis, Co-founder and Chair, Boston Global Forum
Tuan Anh Nguyen, Co-founder and CEO, Boston Global Forum
Thomas Patterson, Co-founder, Boston Global Forum
by Admin | Feb 6, 2022 | 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, 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
