Boston Global Forum

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 | 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.
