Boston Global Forum

Cyber Defense High Level Dialog: from the Russia-Ukraine battlefield to Cyberwarfare with Authoritarian Regimes
2022-03-10 00:00 - 2022-04-15 00:00 (America/New_York) | Online, Boston, MA, 02108, United States
As cyberattacks could be an effective and fatal method for belligerent and totalitarian regimes to threaten national security, sovereignty, and autonomy of other nations, the Global Alliance for Digital Governance (GADG) organizes the Cyber Defense High Level Dialog: from Russia-Ukraine battlefield to Cyberwarfare with Authoritarian Regimes. This dialog unites governments, organizations, and companies to prevent cyberattacks from totalitarian, dictatorial countries such as China, Russia, and others.
Given the mission of the Global Alliance for Digital Governance, which is to establish Global Law and Accord on AI and Digital, cyber security is highly relevant. The dialog aims to exchange ideas on building international rules and alliance for cyber peace and security.
The date and time of the dialog is as followed:
Time: from March 10, 2022 to April 15, 2022.
Format: High Level Dialog format, Chatham House Rule.

Moderator: Governor Michael Dukakis, Chair of Boston Global Forum
Speakers: Leaders of Governments, Organizations, Companies, and Distinguished Thinkers
Discussants:
Professor Alex Sandy Pentland, MIT
Professor Nazli Choucri, MIT
Professor Thomas Patterson, Harvard, Co-founder of Boston Global Forum
Professor David Silbersweig, Harvard
Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO of Boston Global Forum
Mats Karlsson, Former President of World Bank, Representative of BGF in Stockholm and London
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, Representative of Boston Global Forum in Berlin and Brussels
Professor Francesco Lapenta, Representative of Boston Global Forum in Rome
Professor Derek Reveron, US War Naval College

Topics:
Cyber Defense: from Russia-Ukraine battlefield to Cyber-warfare with Authoritarian Regimes

Cyberwarfare between Russia and Ukraine (including information war)
Cyber threats from Russia, China and solutions to them
International Accord on AI and Digital
Building a trusted information society

Agenda:
March 10, 2022:
Opening Remarks, Governor Michael Dukakis and Nguyen Anh Tuan
The Boston Globe Letters – Globe Opinion: AI, a means of progress, can do harm if in the wrong hands
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/03/10/opinion/ai-means-progress-can-do-harm-if-wrong-hands/
http://bostonglobalforum.org/bgf2022/news-and-events/the-boston-globe-letters-globe-opinion-ai-a-means-of-progress-can-do-harm-if-in-the-wrong-hands/

BGF High Level Dialogs are special and flexible meetings and discussions of leaders:
Objectives

To bring together, under the auspices of the Boston Global Forum (BGF), high level leaders in various sectors of the global landscape, together with distinguished thinkers, to reflect upon the format of the GADG, the issues it will seek to address, and contribute towards the emergence of reason-based and harmonious solutions.
“Connect and convince” governments, international organizations, and multinational entities to initiate actions to address global issues in a way that is “faster, smarter, more effective”

Format and Principles

This special high-level dialogue of the Boston Global Forum (BGF) will be convened in a Chatham House, where views and ideas are cited but not attributed, in an inclusive and flexible format that is free and relaxed;
Contributions can be received through in-person participation as well as inputs by online, email or video clip. The sharing and distribution of content will be restricted to registered participants to whose privacy BGF is committed;
Should BGF wish to quote from or cite any contributions, it would do so only after seeking and receiving the concurrence of the authors.

Boston Global Forum and the coordinators of GADG will conduct and moderate the event and coordinate the finalization of an outcome document which will be shared with participants before dissemination. The document will incorporate suggested ideas and initiatives that would animate movements and campaigns to identify problems that may emerge in defining the GADG and the best means to their resolution. It will also be a point of departure for a continued and sustained conversation through interactive forums, including social media, a truly global dialogue that will be a digital treasury of ideas that enrich the “AIWS City”.

Strategic Meeting on Ukraine-Russia Crisis
2022-02-23 09:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | MA
Leaders of Boston Global Forum (BGF) and the Nizami Ganjavi International Center (NGIC) are deeply concerned about the Russia – Ukraine Crisis. They discussed to find out solutions to avoid war.
Leaders of BGF and NGIC will discuss at events organized by NGIC:

“STRATEGIC MEETING ON UKRAINE-RUSSIA CRISIS”

WEDNESDAY, 23 February 2022
9 AM – Eastern Standard Time (EST) / 6 PM – Azerbaijan Standard Time (AZT)
Participants:
Rovshan Muradov, Secretary-General, NGIC
Susan Elliott, Amb. President and CEO, National Committee on American Foreign Policy
Tuan Nguyen, CEO, Boston Global Forum
Symeon Tsomokos, President, Delphi Economic Forum
Dawn Nakagawa, Executive Vice-President, Berggruen Institute
Garry Jacobs, President & CEO, World Academy of Art & Science
Francis O’Donnell, Amb. (ret.), Institute of International & European Affairs (Ireland)
Amitav Banerji, Project Director, Global Leadership Forum
Tanya Guy, InterAction Council
Selim Yenel, Amb. President of the Global Relations Forum
Eka Tkeshelashvili, Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia 2010-2012, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia 2008
Zlatko Lagumdzija, Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2001-2002, deputy Prime Minister 2012-2015
Thomas Axworthy, Secretary-General InterAction Council
Kateryna Yushchenko, First Lady of Ukraine 2005-2010
Robert Cekuta, former US Ambassador to Azerbaijan

“BUILDING BACK THE BROKEN EUROPEAN SECURITY”

FRIDAY, 25 February 2022
9 AM – Eastern Standard Time (EST) / 6 PM – Azerbaijan Standard Time (AZT)
Moderators:
Eka Tkeshelashvili, deputy Prime Minister of Georgia 2010-2012
Zlatko Lagumdzija, Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2001-2002, deputy Prime Minister 2012-2015
Speakers:
Iryna Vereshchuk, deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister for Reintegration of Temporary Occupied Territories
Volodymyr Havrylov, deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine
Emine Dzhaparova, First Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine (TBC)
Vaira Vike-Freiberga, President of Latvia 1999-2007, Co-Chair NGIC
Rosen Plevneliev, President of Bulgaria 2012-2017
Volkan Bozkir, 75th President of the United Nations General Assembly, Minister for European
Union Affairs of Turkey 2015-2016
Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine 2005-2010
Tzipi Livni, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel 2006-2009
Valdis Zatlers, President of Latvia 2007-2011
Susan Elliott, President National Committee on American Foreign Policy
Aleksandr Kwasniewski, President of Poland (TBC)
Kateryna Yushchenko, First Lady of Ukraine 2005-2010, President Ukraine 3000 Foundation
Andris Piebalgs, European Commissioner for Development 2010-2014, European
Commissioner for Energy 2004-2010 (TBC)
Ana Palacio, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain 2002-2004
Participants:
Farida Allaghi, former Libyan Ambassador to EU
Mats Karlsson, Vice-President of the World Bank 1999-2002
Francis O’Donnel, Amb. (ret., SMOM) and UN Resident Coordinator in Ukraine 2004-2009
Brian Mefford, Non-Resident Fellow Atlantic Council
Amitav Banerji, Project Director, Global Leadership Foundation
Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO of the Boston Global Forum

The Global Alliance for Digital Governance calls for solutions in preventing cyberattacks
2022-01-02 - 2022-07-08 | Online, Boston, MA, 02108, United States
Outlining his priorities for 2022 to the United Nations General Assembly, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said “we face a five-alarm global fire that requires the full mobilization of all countries,”, referring to the raging COVID-19 pandemic, a morally bankrupt global financial system, the climate crisis, lawlessness in cyberspace, and diminished peace and security. Countries “must go into emergency mode”, he added, and now is the time to act as the response will determine global outcomes for decades ahead.
It is against this grim backdrop that the Global Alliance for Digital Governance proposes a “2022 action plan” for a world of peace and digital security. Together with the Boston Global Forum, it calls for urgent action to help fashion such a response and, in particular, address the following issues:
– Prevent cyber-attacks by governments (directly or through companies, organizations or individuals), consider these as acts of war against people and against other countries;
– Prevent cyber-attacks by companies, groups or individuals, which can be considered acts of serious crime against people.
It is envisaged that this endeavor will bring together an array of relevant contributors to a digitally secure world, including national governments and international organizations, civil society and academic entities, the corporate sector and private enterprise as well as the community of thinking, caring and influential individuals. It will contribute to building accord and law on the use of artificial intelligence and the preservation of cybersecurity that can contribute to the Global Digital Compact proposed by Secretary-General Guterres as part of the United Nations Summit of the Future which he will convene in 2023.
Planned between February 1, 2022 and April 30, 2022, envisaged activities include high level discussions, online “movements” and a conference. Their results and conclusions will be shared through the Boston Global Forum’s website and its AIWS Weekly Newsletter. The key coordinators of the Global Alliance for Digital Governance, and the proposed action plan, are Governor Michael Dukakis, Chair, and Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO, of the Boston Global Forum.
Contact: Office@BostonGlobalForum.org

Global Law and Accord on AI and Digital
2021-12-12 08:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA 02138, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
The Speaker of Swedish Parliament Andreas Norlen will present the keynote speech at the Symposium “The Framework for Global Law and Accord on AI and Digital” of the annual Global Cybersecurity Day.
8:00 am – 11:00 am (EST), 14:00 – 17:00 (CET), December 12, 2021
Following these significant and historical events, BGF organizes the annual symposium “Global Law and Accord on AI and Digital” to discuss Framework for Global Law and Accord on AI and Digital.
An urgent call to action for stakeholders to work toward an Accord that facilitates innovation while protecting rights in AI and Digital Societies, the world needs Global Law and Accord on AI and Digital with Facebook recently.
The Symposium will also discuss how the Global Alliance for Digital Governance coordinate resources to make Global Law and Accord on AI and Digital happen in 2026.
There are distinguished leaders and thinkers will talk and discuss at this special event.
After serving as member of Parliament for Östergötland County for the Moderate Party, Norlén was elected Speaker of the Riksdag on September 24, 2018. Since then, Norlén has served as the Chair of the Committee on the Constitution, the War Delegation, the Committee on Justice, and the Advisory Council on Foreign Affairs. He has played a pivotal role supporting constitutional matters relating to the media, the auditing of governmental processes, the Riksdag’s work on EU matters, issues concerning privacy, the central government budget process, and matters regarding the nomination of permanent judges in all Swedish courts.
Norlén worked across party lines to ensure unified support for the conclusions reached by the Committee on the Constitution, regarding its scrutiny of the performance of government ministers and the handling of government business. Norlén has asserted that the practices determined by the Committee on the Constitution should obtain broad support in the Riksdag and remain uncompromised when there is a change in the political majority of the Riksdag. He also worked for broad political consensus in matters such as those affecting the Constitution and preventive measures to counteract violent extremism.
Norlén defended his thesis at Linköping University in 2004 on the subject of Unreasonableness and Section 36 of the Contracts Act and is a Doctor of Laws. Norlén is also a businessperson active in the family publishing company Kurirengruppen i Sverige AB.

Building Nha Trang-Khanh Hoa in becoming an innovation center
2021-12-09 08:00 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA 02138, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Topics:

Club de Madrid Policy Dialog 2022 “Shaping an Age of Global Enlightenment”
Building flagship areas in the Age of Global Enlightenment
Building Nha Trang-Khanh Hoa in becoming a flagship area in the Age of Global Enlightenment

Moderator:
Thomas Patterson, Harvard professor, co-founder of the Boston Global Forum, co-author of Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment

Keynote speakers:
Governor Michael Dukakis, co-founder and Chair of the Boston Global Forum, co-author of Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment
President Danilo Turk, President of Club de Madrid
Nguyen Hai Ninh, Chief of Party in Nha Trang-Khanh Hoa

Panelists:
Nguyen Tan Tuan, Governor of Nha Trang-Khanh Hoa
Ho Van Mung, Chief of Party in Nha Trang City
Alex Sandy Pentland, MIT professor, co-author of Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment
John Quelch, Harvard Business School professor, co-founder of the Boston Global Forum
Prime Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija, co-author of Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment
President Vaira Vike-Freiberga, President of Club de Madrid (2014-2020), co-author of Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment
Vilas Dhar, President of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
Mats Karlsson, former Vice President of World Bank
David Silbersweig, Harvard professor, BGF Board Member
Nguyen Anh Tuan, co-founder and CEO of the Boston Global Forum, co-author of Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment

Law and Governance in the Age of AI Conference in Vietnam discussed about Fundamentals of the International Law on AI
2021-10-21 | Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA 02138, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
The Framework of Global Laws and Accord on AI and Digital and Global Alliance for Digital Governance were introduced and discussed at the conference “Law and Governance in the Age of AI”, co-organized by Vietnam National University (VNU) and IFI on October 21, 2021.
Scholars of the School of Law, Vietnam National University were pleased to contribute to the initiative of Boston Global Forum, to build the Age of Global Enlightenment.
Presentation
Keynote on Social Contract on the Age of AI and Review on the Book “Remaking the World Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment”
Moderator:
Mr. Nguyễn Anh Tuấn, CEO of The Boston Global Forum (BGF), co-founder of the AIWS City (AIWS.city); Founder, CEO, and Editor-in-Chief of VietNamNet (1997-2011)
Fundamentals of International Law on AI and Digital
Mr. Paul Nemitz, Principal Advisor in the Directorate General for Justice and Consumers, European Commission
Law and governance: a comparative Study on Asian national policies and Strategies
Mr. Đặng Minh Tuấn, Deputy Head of the Constitutional and Administrative Law Department, School of Law, VNU

The Use of AI in Civil Justice System: Perspectives and Challenges for Access to Justice
Mrs. Nguyễn Thị Bích Thảo, Deputy Head of Civil Law Department, School of Law, VNU

The social credit system in china: a state governance system and its adverse impact on human rights
Mr. Nguyễn Văn Quân, School of Law, VNU

Secretary: Mrs. Vu Thi My Le, IFI

Former President of Croatia visits and discusses with Governor Michael Dukakis and leaders of Boston Global Forum
2021-09-24 09:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Michael Dukakis’s Estate
On September 24, President of Croatia (2015-2020) Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, member of Nizami Ganjavi International Center, visited and discussed with Governor Michael Dukakis and leaders of the Boston Global Forum.
President Grabar-Kitarović expressed enthusiasm that the city of Dubrovnik, with the young, open-minded mayor Mato Franković, can be a satellite city of AIWS City. BGF can provide advice for Dubrovnik in building AI infrastructure and legislations, while Dubrovnik can be an ally of the AI International Accord and Law and Global Alliance for Digital Alliance. Governor Michael Dukakis invited President Grabar-Kitarovic to join the initiative of BGF in Global Alliance for Digital Governance and Global Law and Accord on AI and Digital.
This visit of President Grabar-Kitarovic opens a new road for opportunities between Croatia and Boston Global Forum, especially in works to apply AIWS Ecosystem and Community Innovation Economy.
On September 24, 2021, HE. Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, President of Croatia (2015-2020) gave a keynote speech at the United Nations Centennial Roundtable. Governor Michael Dukakis, co-founder and Chair of the Boston Global Forum (BGF), was moderator, with CEO of BGF Nguyen Anh Tuan, and Harvard Professors Thomas Patterson and David Silbersweig as panelists.
Here are some highlights from her speech:

Inequality of access to the internet is in itself a human right issue
Many challenges relating to demographics:

Education
Health
Employment

Any sort of global accord has to be a “coalition of the willing,” not just of big powers. Small countries with relationships with various superstates are important links/glue/nodes in the network. For example, when two superstates have conflicts, the small countries with good relationships to both contending superstates can resolve the conflicts.

Therefore, the AI International Accord and Law can work on regional cooperation as stepping stone towards global cooperation.

The path “Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment” has, at its foundations, six essential anchors upon which to develop and build viable futures for current and all generations to come – here and everywhere.

The Political and Social Order: Based on the Social Contract for the Age of Artificial Intelligence supported accountability and responsibility
National Law and Global Order: Framed with International Law and Global Accord for Ai and adaptations to the Digital era
Economic Activity with Creativity: Built upon innovation by, and for society, community, and individuals: Community Innovation Economy.
Dominant Cultural Norms: Tolerance for diversity, mutual support, respect, and recognition of the value of each individual
Education Principles: Pursuit of basic science, technology, social sciences, humanities and other knowledge forms, shaping thinking and innovating to articulate a Global Enlightenment Education Program
Information & Communication: Open forms of discourse, support for diverse platforms of communication, respect for accuracy with accountability

Special Side Event “Quad Roundtable” at the Riga Conference 2020: “The Quad Group, AIWS Social Contract and solutions for world peace and security”
2020-11-12 14:30 - 16:00 (Europe/Riga) | Online, Boston, MA, 02108, United States
The Quad Roundtable is a special side event of the Riga Conference 2020, Session Quad Roundtable” the Quad Group, AIWS Social Contract and solutions for world peace and security”, co-organized by the Latvian Transatlantic Organization (LATO) and the Boston Global Forum.
Time and date: 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm (Riga time), November 12, 2020 , Virtual Roundtable.
Speakers:
Governor Michael Dukakis, Chairman of the Boston Global Forum (US),
Defense State Minister Yasuhide Nakayama (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)
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 (US, Japan, Australia and India) 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?

Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance Conference - Protecting and Strengthening Democracy in the Aftermath of COVID-19
2020-07-01 08:30 - 11:50 (America/New_York) | Online, Boston, MA, 02108, United States
Co-chairs of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) – eg. Sir Iain Duncan Smith, Senator Kimberley Kitching, MEP Miriam Lexmann – will speak and dialog with political leaders and distinguished thinkers to build new alliances and new global economic strategies after the pandemic COVID-19.
On May 12, 2020, the World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid and the Boston Global Forum held a roundtable to discuss the Social Contract 2020, A New Social Contract in the Age of AI and risks to human rights stemming from governments’ response to COVID-19. On June 5, 2020, a new group, The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), was formed to assess the challenge posed by China’s ascendancy. It consists of 18 lawmakers from the U.S, Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Norway, Sweden, the U.K. and the European Parliament. The July 1st conference is a follow-up to these efforts, focusing on creative responses to the threats to democracies posed by COVID-19 and China, and building Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance.

Organizers: Boston Global Forum, Sponsor: Government of Massachusetts
Moderator: Governor Michael Dukakis
Date and Time: 8:30 am – 11:50 am (EST), July 1, 2020
Format: Online conference
Participants:
Political Leaders: Liam Byrne, UK Member of Parliament, the Chair of the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank & IMF, Governor Michael Dukakis, Co-founder and Chair of the Boston Global Forum (BGF), Ichiro Fujisaki, former Japanese Ambassador to US, Senator Kimberley Kitching, Parliament of Australia, Co-chair of Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), Miriam Lexmann, Member of European Parliament, Co-chair of IPAC, Jamil Mahuad, former President of Ecuador, Beatriz Merino, former Prime Minister of Peru, Yasuhide Nakayama, Member of the House of Representatives of Japan, the State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Andreas Norlén, Speaker of the Swedish Parliament , Nam Pham, Asistant Secretary, Massachusetts, Sir Iain Duncan Smith, UK Member of Parliament, Co-chair of (IPAC).
Scholars and Thinkers: Professor Nazli Choucri (MIT), Prof. Koichi Hamada (Yale), Prof. Joseph Nye (Harvard Kennedy School), Prof. Thomas Patterson (Harvard Kennedy School), Prof. Alex Pentland (MIT), Marc Rotenberg (Director of the Center on AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP), Michael Dukakis Institute, former President of EPIC), Prof. David Silbersweig (Harvard), Nguyen Anh Tuan (CEO of the Boston Global Forum (BGF)), Prof. Dick Vietor (Harvard Business School)

Agenda
8:30 am – Opening Remarks, Governor Michael Dukakis, Co-founder and Chair of the BGF

8:35 am – Topic 1: New Alliance, New Order, New Democracy
Speakers: Sir Iain Duncan Smith, UK MP, Co-chair of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), Miriam Lexmann, MEP, Co-chair of IPAC, Professor Joseph Nye, Harvard Kennedy School
Moderator: Governor Michael Dukakis
Panelists: Marc Rotenberg, Director of the Center on AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP), Michael Dukakis Institute, Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki, Professor Nazli Choucri, MIT, Beatriz Merino, former Prime Minister of Peru, Professor Thomas Patterson, Harvard Kennedy School, Nguyen Anh Tuan, Speaker of the Swedish Parliament Andreas Norlén, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, former President of Latvia.

10:25 am – Topic 2: New Supply Chain, New Economy, New Democracy
Speakers: Senator Kimberley Kitching, Parliament of Australia, Co-Chair of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), Professor Dick Vietor, Harvard Business School, Professor Alex Sandy Pentland, MIT
Moderator: Governor Michael Dukakis
Panelists: MP Liam Byrne, Professor Koichi Hamada, Yale, and Special Adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Yasuhide Nakayama, State Minister of Japan, Nam Pham, Assistant Secretary of Massachusetts, Jamil Mahuad, former President of Ecuador, Professor David Silberweig, Harvard

11:40 am – Announce the Center on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Policy (CAIDP), Marc Rotenberg, Director of CAIDP, Michael Dukakis Institute

11:45 am – Concluding Remarks: Governor Michael Dukakis.

Transatlantic Approaches on Digital Governance: A New Social Contract on Artificial Intelligence
2020-04-27 - 2020-04-29 | Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA 02138, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
From 27 to 29 of April, 2020, at Harvard University and MIT, the World Leadership Alliance – Club de Madrid (WLA-CdM) in partnership with the Boston Global Forum (BGF) is organizing a Transatlantic and multi-stakeholder dialogue on global challenges and policy solutions in the context of the need to create a new social contract on digital technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Over the years, Transatlantic relations have been characterized by close cooperation and continuous work for common interests and values. This cooperation has been essential to enhance the multilateralism system, considering the shared principles from both sides on democracy, rule of law, and fairness.
By comparing American and European approaches in the creation of a new social contract on AI and digital governance, under the critical eye of former democratic Heads of State or Government, this policy dialogue will stimulate new thinking and bring out ideas from representatives of governments, academic institutions and think tanks, tech companies, and civil society, from both regions.
At the same time, the discussion will generate a space to encourage and strengthen Transatlantic cooperation on the new social contract of digital governance in the framework of needed reforms of the multilateral system. Special attention will be focused to engage technological companies as key stakeholders of digital governance, while protecting democratic mandate for public policy-makers.
This special event is sponsored and supported by Tram Huong Khanh Hoa.

The BGF Global Cybersecurity Day Symposium for 2019
2019-12-12 08:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Loeb House, Harvard University, 17 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Subject: Enhancing Cybersecurity in the AI World Society
Place: Loeb House, Harvard University, 17 Quincy street, Cambridge, MA
Date/Time: December 12, 2019, 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Agenda
8:30 AM – Opening Remarks by Governor Michael Dukakis, Co-founder and Chair of the Boston Global Forum
Recognition of President Vaira Vike-Freiberga, President of Latvia (1999-2007) and current President of the World Leadership Alliance – Club de Madrid. President Vike-Freiberga is the recipient of this year’s BGF World Leader for Peace and Security Award
Presentation by Mr.Taro Kono, Currently Minister of Defense and Former Japanese Foreign Affair Minister: On a Vison for Ensuring Trusted Data for use by the Japanese Government
Presentation by Professor Alex Sandy Pentland, Professor and Director of MIT’s Human Dynamics Laboratory and the MIT Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program: On Building an AI World Society of Trusted Data
Presentation by Professor Nazli Choucri, Professor of Political Science at MIT: On the Drafting for the Cybersafety of the AI World Society Social Contract 2020.
10:10 AM: Roundtable Discussion, Moderated by Governor Michael Dukakis
11:45 AM: Presentation by Ms. Rebecca Leeper, Computer Ethics and Data Policy Advocator, researcher into emerging technologies and their international security implications at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland: On AI World Society Innovation Network and Activities.
11:55 AM: Closing Remarks, by Governor Michael Dukakis

AI World Society Summit 2019
2019-06-29 | Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA 02138, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Alliance of civic societies, non-government organizations, and thought leaders for a safe, peaceful, and Next Generation Democracy.

Mission:
A high-level international discussion about AI governance for a safe, peaceful, and Next Generation Democracy.
Organized by Boston Global Forum, and World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid, and sponsored by the government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Outcome: recommendations, suggestions for initiatives, solutions, and policies to build a society and world more peaceful, safer, and democratic with AI; the new social and economy revolution with AI that will shape better and bright futures in equality of opportunities in contribution, transparency, openness, in which capital and wealth cannot corrupt democracy, citizens will be recognized, rewarded and have a good life.
Format:
Combine between online and offline.
Speakers: leaders of governments, political leaders, business leaders, prominent professors, thoughtleaders. Governor Michael Dukakis will send inviation leters to speakers to introduce mission, topics, outcome of the AI World Society Summit 2019.
Speakers can send their talks by video clip (maximum 30 minutes) or text to Content Team of the AI World Society Summit 2019, then the Content Team will post to AI World Society Summit section of Boston Global Forum’s website and deliver to other speakers, and discussants, and then their talks will be submitted to G7 Summit 2019 as a part of AIWS-G7 Summit Initiative.
Time: start April 25, 2019 at AI World Society – G7 Summit Conference to August 5, 2019.
