Thank you, thank you very much. I'm really honored and privileged to be with you, and of course I want to thank to Michael Dukakis and Boston Global Forum for remaining such impressive group of people there in your premises in Boston. And of course us who are able to...
Professor Alex Pentland’s speech at the BGF Conference “Rebuilding Ukraine”
I'll be very short here. I'm struck with the fact that in 1991 Estonia left the Soviet Union, and one of the things it did first is, it renovated its governance and its internal systems and deployed the first general blockchain system in the world because they were...
Obama’s ‘Internet surrender’ to despots is denounced
L. Gordon Crovitz writes in The Wall Street Journal in a column headlined "The Battle Over Obama's Internet Surrender'': “It’s make or break for the Internet as we know it. Unless Congress acts this summer, the Obama administration will end U.S. protection of...
Merkel: Implementing Minsk Agreement would end sanctions against Russia
(June 13th, 2016) German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on June 10 that implementing the Minsk Agreement to end the conflict between Russia and Ukraine would end sanctions imposed against Russia for its seizure of Crimea from Ukraine and its ongoing attacks on the...
Cybersecurity Deficits and International Norms by Derek S. Reveron
(June 6th, 2016) International security for the last 30 years has been characterized by security deficits, which I define as a government’s inability to meet its national security obligations without external support. (1) In the terrestrial world, intra-state,...
China cyberattack apparently targets Indian military
(June 13th, 2016) The Sunday Standard of New Delhi reports that a Chinese cyberattack on Indian government units and business groups has led to an alert to the Indian military, which appears to be the main target. The paper reported that a Chinese Advanced Persistent...
Cohen: Collapse of the E.U. would be a catastrophe
Roger Cohen warns in The New York Times of the perils that lie just ahead with what he sees as the terrifying possibility that the European Union could collapse if the United Kingdom decides to leave the E.U. Mr. Cohen implied that would make Russian President...
West tries to deal with returning jihadis
(June 13th, 2016) As the Islamic State continues to suffer more and more losses of territory and fighters, growing numbers of Western jihadis are trying to quit the ISIS and go back home. But Western security officials have a difficult time in ascertaining who might...