The Boston Global Forum (BGF) is honored to introduce two distinguished leaders among those attending and speaking at the 4th Shinzo Abe Conference: Japanese Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy Minoru Kiuchi and BGF Co-Chair and CEO Nguyen Anh Tuan,...
The 4th Shinzo Abe Conference, held at The Okura Tokyo on March 28, 2025 and hosted by the Boston Global Forum (BGF) under the theme “Government 24/7: AI and Finance Platforms,” will conclude with the groundbreaking Tokyo Accord for Government 24/7: AI and Finance...
As part of its growing efforts to expand its global power, China, the world’s second biggest economy, says it wants to develop its raw-material markets as world hubs for setting prices, in an effort to, among other things, gain much more power in determining how...
(May 23rd, 2016) Thomas E. Patterson, of The Boston Global Forum and Harvard’s Kennedy School, in an interview with Lan Anh, a journalist with VietNamNet, discusses current and future U.S.-Vietnamese relations. He explains the roles of closer trade relations,...
(May 23rd, 2016) The Obama administration announced Monday that the United States would fully lift the U.S. embargo on arms sales to Vietnam. Mr. Obama did not say this openly, but everyone knows that the decision mostly reflects growing concerns about China’s...
(May 23rd, 2016) Last year as part of its effort to promote cybersecurity, the Boston Global Forum issued an Ethics Code of Conduct for Cybersecurity. This year, we are concentrating on ideas/suggestions on how to put the Code of Conduct into practice. We’re inviting...
A survey by Evans Data finds that software developers in the region encompassing Europe, the Middle East and Africa are very worried about cybersecurity, with the largest plurality citing cyberterrorism as the cyberthreat they most fear. The company says that “more...
Tomomi Inada, Chairman of the Policy Research Council of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party and a Member of the Japanese House of Representatives, addressed The Boston Global Forum-G7 Summit Initiative Conference, held May 9 at the Harvard Faculty Club, in Cambridge,...