During Governor Dukakis’s 90th Birthday Celebration held on November 2, 2023, at Harvard University Loeb House and organized by the Boston Global Forum (BGF), an exciting and innovative initiative was unveiled. BGF, in collaboration with the Active Inference...
[Horizon Search] Celebrating a Milestone in AI Governance: Michael Dukakis’s 90th and Amma’s World Peace and Security Award
Originally published by Horizon Search on November 10, 2023. The Boston Global Forum honored its Chair, Governor Michael Dukakis, on his 90th birthday at Harvard University's Loeb House, where a select group of dignitaries gathered to express their appreciation and...
India moves to streamline taxes
India seems about to launch the biggest economic reform since a huge deregulation program was enacted in 1991. The upper house of India's Parliament has passed a bill to streamline and unify taxes on 15 goods and services taxes across the country, which has...
China wants a four-nation alliance against terrorism
China is trying to create what it calls an anti-terrorism alliance with Pakistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, Chinese state media said on Aug. 4. China has faced Islamic terrorism in some of its western region. China envisions a "four-country mechanism" for...
Karzai says NATO should leave or focus on Pakistan
Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai says that foreign forces should either leave Afghanistan to deal with its civil war, or focus on the Taliban’s foreign backers in Pakistan. And he says that bombing Taliban positions just makes things worse. He told The...
Vietnam as U.S contact point for North Korea?
By LLEWELLYN KING Can Vietnam talk some sense into North Korea, and in so doing make itself the go-to country in Asia for diplomatic fixes? There are those in Hanoi, and quite a few scattered across the foreign policy establishment, who think so. Vietnamese President...
Addressing Attacks on Vietnamese Computer Systems
Addressing Attacks on Vietnamese Computer Systems By Allan Cytryn, Risk Masters International, LLC; Member of Board of Thinkers, The Boston Global Forum and Prof. John E. Savage, Brown University; Member of Board of Thinkers, The Boston Global Forum We recommend a...
Japan deeply worried about Chinese ‘coercion’
Japan's annual defense review has expressed ''deep concern'' over what it sees as China's ''coercion'' and aggressiveness, particularly in the South China Sea. The review comes amid heightened tension in East and Southeast Asia less than a month after an arbitration...