On February 11, 2025, during the AI Action Summit, the transformative concept of AIWS Government 24/7 will be explored in a special event titled Government 24/7: How AI Might Best Transform Governance. You can watch the introductory video for the event at the...
World Leaders in AIWS Award Updates
Alondra Nelson, World Leader in AIWS Award Recipient, Discusses AIWS Government 24/7 with Leaders of Nha Trang-Khanh Hoa and Da Nang
On January 9, 2025, Professor Alondra Nelson, member of the U.S. National Science Board and World Leader in AIWS Award recipient, visited Nha Trang-Khanh Hoa, Vietnam, where she engaged in insightful discussions with local government leaders. During the meeting, the...
Boston Global Forum Opens Nominations for the 2016 Award for “World Leaders for Peace, Security, and Development”
Chancellor Angela Merkel, Germany, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan, Vietnam were 2015 honorees. 2016 Awards will be presented at Harvard University December 12 In December of 2015, the Boston Global Forum (BGF) launched a new award titled “World Leaders for Peace,...
Especially in Developing World, people more and more see themselves as global citizens
(June 21st, 2016) A BBC World Service poll funds that people in general are increasingly identifying themselves as global rather than just national citizens. (The Boston Global Forum has been heavily involved in global citizenship education programs.) The news...
Creating a ‘Global Commons’
(June 13th, 2016) In this paper, Carlos Alberto Torres, Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of California at Los Angeles, occupant of the UNESCO Chair in Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education at UCLA and a member of The Boston Global...
Cybersecurity expert Schneier warns of deficit in security policy for Internet of Things
(June 13th, 2016) The news service V3 reports that international cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier warned that governments lack the expertise to, as V3 paraphrased him, “define security policy when it comes to the rapidly growing Internet of Things.’’ The Boston...
Abe, warning of the risk of a new crisis, plans big stimulus package
(May 30th, 2016) After warning at the G7 Summit that the global economy faces the risk of another crisis like that of 2008-2009, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to propose a fiscal stimulus package of as much as $90.7 billion to help ward it off, Nikkei, the...
Explaining the UNESCO Global Learning project in Vietnam
(May 30th, 2016) This link will take you to a description of the program in Vietnam of the UNESCO Chair in Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education, with which The Boston Global Forum has been collaborating closely. The program has been working in Vietnam...