Focus: HealthTech, PrivacyTech and Generative AI Davos, 2024 https://leadingbeyondboundaries.github.io/davos24.html MIT Professor Alex Pentland, a BGF Board Member, played a significant role at WEF Davos 2024. HealthTech Roundtable: Creating a preventive and...
Red Sea airstrikes, Ukraine aid , Taiwan elections: Roundup on the Four Pillars
Over the past week, the US and UK, two Pillars, escalated their actions in the Red Sea against the Houthis. This comes after a red line against their continued attacks on shipping lanes. The Anglo countries conducted airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen itself. While...
The Global Alliance for Digital Governance supports building the Geopolitics of Digital Standards
The Cyber Project of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School launched the report “The Geopolitics of Digital Standards,” by Sophie Faaborg-Andersen and Lindsay Temes. The Global Alliance for Digital Governance supports its...
Building Shinzo Abe Digital Memorial Hall on AIWS City
To honor Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s legacy and to continue his work dedicated to world, the Boston Global Forum has established the Shinzo Abe Initiative for Peace and Security: The Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Digital Memorial Hall on AIWS City (House of Honor Section)...
AIWS City and Vietnam’s Data Revolution
As readers of this newsletter are aware, an “AIWS City” is being developed by NovaWorld in Phan Thiet, Viet Nam as a pilot project. It is a virtual digital city dedicated to promoting the values associated with AIWS and aims to bring together a global enlightenment...
Speech of Prime Minister Abe: The Framework for Global Law and Accord on A.I. and Digital
Boston, December 12, 2021 I would like to express my sincere gratitude for the invitation to speak today. I made a visit to Boston in 2015 as then Prime Minister and have good memories of visiting the Kennedy Library, Harvard University and MIT. How I wish today that...
Speech of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe: “Security in Cyberspace”
To pay tribute to Prime Minister Abe, Boston Global Forum republishes his speech from the first Global Cybersecurity Day: (Excerpts of Prime Minister Abe’s speech at Boston Global Forum Conference, December 12, 2015.) “Ensuring security in cyberspace – cybersecurity –...
Canada: Federal Government Introduces New Privacy, Cybersecurity and AI Legislation
Last week, the federal government introduced two pieces of legislation proposing major privacy, cybersecurity and data governance reforms. The first, Bill C-26, would enact the Critical Cyber Systems Protection Act (CCSPA), which aims to protect critical cyber systems...