In his trip to Vietnam to speak at the Policy Dialog “Building the Age of Global Enlightenment”, Vint Cerf, the Father of Internet, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist of Google will attend the ceremony to launching the Vint Cerf House at NovaWorld Phan Thiet...
Co-founder of AIWS.net, Professor Alex Pentland, promoted as Board Member of the Michael Dukakis Institute and Boston Global Forum
Professor Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland, Director of MIT Connection Science, co-founder of the AI World Society Innovation Network (AIWS.net), co-author of Social Contract for the AI Age, Distinguished Contributor of the book Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global...
Abe nominates economic ally to Bank of Japan board
(7th March 2016) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s nomination of Makoto Sakurai, an obscure 70-year-old economist, to the board of the Bank of Japan signals his determination to ensure that the central bank supports Mr. Abe’s stimulative economic policies. Japan,...
UCLA Establishes New UNESCO Chair In Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education
(Feb.08, 2016, Los Angeles) – The UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies celebrated the establishment of a new United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Chair in Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education Monday...
Inauguration of the UCLA UNESCO Chair in Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education
(February 8, 2016) - Professor Carlos Alberto Torres, member of Boston Global Forum's Board of Thinkers, Distinguished Professor of Education at University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA), delivers his speech at the International Conference on Global Citizenship...
German leader Angela Merkel says refugees must return home once war is over
(Jan.31, 2016) - In an effort to placate the increasingly vocal critics of her open-door policy for refugees the German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday at a regional meeting of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the state of Mecklenburg-Western...
Shinzo Abe: Japan won’t fight Islamic State
(Jan. 31, 2016) - Japan still sticks with its scheme of providing humanitarian and monetary aids instead of sending its people to directly join the international force in the fight against terrorist or environment crisis. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stated...
Bringing Global Citizenship Education to the Middle East
(Jan.30, 2016) - Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, Chief Executive Officer of the Boston Global Forum shares his view on Global Citizenship Education which he believes would become one of important element to build sustainable peace and security in the Middle East. Dr. Carlos...