During Governor Dukakis’s 90th Birthday Celebration on November 2, 2023, held at Harvard University Loeb House and organized by the Boston Global Forum (BGF), an exciting and innovative initiative was unveiled. In collaboration with Amma, a globally esteemed spiritual...
Economist Larry Summers joins the board of OpenAI as ousted CEO Sam Altman returns
OpenAI's board at first refused to entertain the possibility of Altman returning, but then something happened they could not ignore: 702 out of OpenAI's 770 employees committed to leaving the company unless Altman was restored. The employees also asked that a new...
Professor Joseph Nye at the Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance Conference
On July 1, 2020, at Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance conference, Professor Joseph Nye, Member of the BGF Board of Thinkers, Mentor of AIWS.net, presented his view about US-China relations in the section “New Alliance, New Order, New Democracy” with other...
Transatlantic Approaches on Digital Governance: A New Social Contract in Artificial Intelligence
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...
G7 education ministers set agenda
(May 23rd, 2016) In preparation for the G7 Summit May 26-27, G7 education ministers meeting in Japan have agreed to collaborate to improve education, including addressing the education deficits of refugee children and widening income inequality (with some of the...
UNESCO official promotes global citizenship education
( May 2nd, 2016) Qian Tang, UNESCO’S Assistant Director General for Education, emphasized '’the immense need for social cohesion and intercultural dialogue in these turbulent times.’’ He spoke as a representative of UNESCO’s Director General at the 7th Global Forum of...
Five G7 leaders to meet in Germany
( April 25th, 2016) In what seems at least in part preparation for the G7 Summit coming up May 26-27 in Japan, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a G7 nation, hosted a meeting April 25 of leaders from G7 members Italy, France, the United States and Britain. The other...