by BGF | Jan 20, 2019 | News
In March 2019, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) will hold OECD Summit on Going Digital in Paris.
This is a high-level closing event of Going Digital Project since 2017. This summit will be attended by high-level policy makers and key stakeholders to share stories and their opinion about key areas of policy.
OECD Summit on Going Digital will be organized in two day. There are 14 topics:
- Promises of digital transformation
- Measuring digital transformation
- Strategies for digital transformation
- Addressing digital divides
- Making digital transformation work for growth & productivity
- Policies for the digital age
- Day 1 wrap-up
- Jobs in the digital age
- Education and skills for the digital age
- Trade, investment and competition in the digital age
- Imagining 2030
- Can we ensure privacy in a data-driven world?
- Well-being and the digital transformation
- Realising the potential of new digital technologies
- Steering towards a better digital future
by BGF | Jan 20, 2019 | News
In the time of AI superpowers, Finland can’t coordinate the US and China. So this nation is executing an aspiring test to show the essentials of AI to 1% of the populace in this nation, equal to 55,000 individuals. When that objective is met, the goal is expanding the extent of the populace that knows about AI. This program is a piece of the push to enable Finland to lead the application and utilization of innovation.
The Finnish government is currently deploying it nationwide. As of mid-December, more than 10,500 people, including at least 4,000 people outside the Finnish border, took the course. More than 250 companies have also committed to training part or all of their employees.
At the heart of promoting economic, skilled Finnish workers is another attempt to create a more modern and modern democracy. That’s what made Teemu Roos, the founder of the course, relate educator of software engineering at the University of Helsinki, begin the project from the earliest starting point. He wanted to outfit voters with the data expected to think about the speculation and manage the country’s AI.
It is a key strategy to address the problem which countries face in the world: inadequate knowledge of technology. Especially in the United States, a contemplate distributed a week ago by the AI Management Center at Oxford University has noted that numerous Americans don’t perceive the nature or ubiquity of AI, which makes labeling Facebook photographs and Netflix recommendation instrumental. Strategy creators are similarly befuddled about the extension and abilities for innovation. Without a sensible comprehension, the United States is in danger of altering the AI too aimlessly, or coincidentally controlling advancement or not limiting outcomes.
In this way, during the time spent affirming its contribution in the worldwide AI economy, Finland is pushing its initiative in an unexpected way: it is to demonstrate to different nations generally accepted methods to alter AI to be increasingly thorough.
MDI is working to promote the AIWS 7-Layer Model to build Next Generation Democracy. This invention will hopefully provide a service that helps the development of AI in order to protect achievements and reduce risks from spreaded and actual harms that AI could create for humanity.
by BGF | Jan 20, 2019 | News
On September 2018, Former Secretary General Ban Ki-moon attended at the Munhwa (Cultural) Future Report held at the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Seoul, Korea.
Former Secretary General Ban Ki-moon gave a speech on human evolution and AI (artificial intelligence) revolution. He was honored as a World Leader for Peace, Security and Development Award by the Boston Global Forum in 2016.
In the first Munhwa Future Report forum, the topic was on misunderstandings about AI and providing a mutual understanding of future developments.
In the remaining sessions of the forum, participants discussed on top global issues which are increasing threats and conflicts against world peace, population aging and decreasing growth potential, the technological big bang, and environmental issues. The purpose of the discussion is answering the question what Korea need to do for a good future.
There are many professors and experts took part in the Munhwa Future Report such as Professor Max Tegmark of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Professor Dae-shik Kim of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Professor Stuart Russell of UC Berkeley.
by BGF | Jan 20, 2019 | Distinguished Innovation Leader, News, Boston Global Forum Awards
Talking in 2018, the Reading Promotion Project “Library” distributed a video with the preference of previous President, Vaira Vike-Freiberga where she shared her encounters on reading books and literature.
She believes that literature represented everything written in letters. Fundamentally, the beginnings of the composed declaration were exceptionally handy, associated with property and power. About fiction, it initially created regarding legends, fantasies, and somewhat with religious traditions, gradually as a kind advanced into epic.
“Individuals’ poetry has been rousing with its creative ability and with its cadenced, smooth dialect. Pretty much society verse has inspired numerous journalists.” She believes that “nobody could view himself as an informed individual if his school’s scholarly program had not had the first oral stage, that was, both fantasies and society verse. Folk songs are melodious verse.” She said: “The song is alive if there are people who sing him.”
All above, the former President believes, that word that was composed all the more regularly would spread electronically. Conversely, electronic could toss anything out, they could get back, but she mentioned that book could not disappear completely in the next 100 years.
Vaira Vike-Freiberga was honored as the Distinguished Innovation Leader for her distinguished work in the humanities and social sciences by the Boston Global Forum and the Michael Dukakis Institute on May 15, 2018.
by BGF | Jan 13, 2019 | News
On this week, AIWS talkshow for Leadership and Innovation will be co-organized by Boston Global Forum (BGF) and Vietnam Televisions VTV3 Chanel.
The moderators of the program will be Journalist Ta Bich Loan (the Director of Vietnam Televisions VTV3 Channel and one of Vietnam’s top 50 most influential women 2017), together with Barry Nolan (the former presenter on Comcast Cable’s CN8 channel in the US, and winner of multiple Emmy Awards). In this event, participants will discuss on AI in general and The Artificial Intelligence World Society (AIWS).
Journalist Ta Bich Loan, Director of Vietnam Televisions VTV3 Channel
A year after the AIWS was born, it has spread its influence to the world’s leading science and technology centers as well as political and cultural centers. Rt. Hon. Liam Byrne MP, Member of Parliament for Birmingham, Hodge Hill, Shadow Digital Minister, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth, delivered the first AI World Society Distinguished Lecture at Global Cybersecurity Day 2018. On April 25, 2018, OECD Secretary, General Angel Gurria, receive the first world leader in AIWS Award at BGF-G7 Summit Conference at Harvard University Faculty Club. AI-Government, a component of the AIWS became a topic in a section at AI World Conference and Expo which was held in Boston in December 2018; besides that Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation (MDI) will be the core partner who organizes AI-Government conference in DC in June 2019. Out of Boston, many AIWS groups are established in various countries such as Japan, England, Germany, Finland, Belgium, Austria, New Zealand, Australia, Russia…
This event will have the presence of not only two famous anchors, but also many leading professors and experts in AI technology: Prof. Jason Furman (economist and professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics), Mr. Nicco Mele (The Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and an academic research center in the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University), Professor Nazli Choucri (Member of Boston Global Forum’s Board of Thinkers; Co-founder, member of GC Development Council; Global Citizenship Educators at Global Citizenship Education Network), Marc Rotenberg (President and Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center – EPIC) and many other prominent characters.
