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...
Institute will explain UNESCO’S global citizenship education initiative
(April 18th, 2016) On July 25-29 the first International Institute on Global Citizenship Education will be held at the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles. It is being sponsored by the Paulo Freire...
Merkel tries to split difference in spat over insult of Turkish leader
(April 18th, 2016) This shows just how much German Chancellor Angela Merkel (and other European leaders) depend on Turkey’s help in helping to stem the flood of refugees into Europe from Syria: Mrs. Merkel is allowing to proceed a criminal investigation of a comic,...
Cybersecurity expert Hypponen says ‘cyberwar’ is the right term
(April 18th, 2016) International cybersecurity leader Mikko Hypponen of Finland now accepts the need to use the word “cyberwar.’’ Not many security experts like the term 'cyberwar', and Mikko Hyppönen used to be one of them. But in the wake of recent attacks by...
BGF’s CEO promotes Global Citizenship at his alma mater
(April 11st, 2016) On March 20, Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO and co-founder of The Boston Global Forum (BGF), gave a keynote speech to help celebrate the 70th anniversary of one of Vietnam’s leading high schools, the Ngo Sy Lien School, in Bac Giang, Vietnam. In the speech,...
Abe says G7 Summit leaders will discuss Ukraine
(April 11st, 2016) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe assured visiting Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko last week that G7 leaders meeting at their summit in Japan on May 26-27 would discuss Russia’s seizure of Crimea in 2014 and its continuing support of...
Merkel defends E.U.-Turkish deal on refugees
(April 11st, 2016) German Chancellor Angela Merkel has defended the European Union’s agreement with Turkey aimed at stemming the flood of refugees into Europe from the Mideast. Before the deal, Mrs. Merkel had been under increasing domestic political pressure, mostly...