AIWS Social Contract and UN Centennial

Artificial Intelligence and the Sustainable Development Goals

As the world prepares to observe Human Rights Day on December 10, we look at a paper prepared earlier this year by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the role artificial intelligence can play in their furtherance —...

Peace in the Age of Global Enlightenment: Technology for Peace

Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21 September. The UN General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, through observing 24 hours of non-violence and cease-fire. But achieving...

Apply AIWS Ecosystem at AIWS City: A Model for the Digital Age

Apply AIWS Ecosystem at AIWS City: A Model for the Digital Age Nguyen Anh Tuan   The Digital and AI Age is remaking the world. The issue is whether that remaking will serve the common good. Judging from history, it is a mistake to assume that such an...

Living Culture and Artificial Intelligence

Ramu Damodaran, Chief of the United Nations Academic Impact New York, May 26, 2021   I must have been in the eighth grade when our high school teacher, Father Pat Rebeiro, introduced us to the distinction between culture and civilization which the...

Launching the book “Remaking the world – The Age of Global Enlightenment”

May 27, 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM, EST 8:30 am: Opening Remarks by Mr. Ramu Damodaran, Chief, United Nations Academic Impact Remarks by Governor Michael Dukakis, Co-founder and Chair, Boston Global Forum Speech by Professor Alex Sandy Pentland, MIT, “Our...

Technology: A Path Towards A More Collaborative World Order?

The full article can be read and downloaded here. AIWS introduces the article by Shatrughna Sinha Deputy, Consul General of India, New York, on the Fletcher Forum of World Affairs to discuss. Below are some key messages of his article: As countries look...

Presentation of Professor Thomas Patterson at the UN Centennial Roundtable on March 17, 2021

On March 17, 2021, Professor Thomas Patterson, co-founder of the Boston Global Forum and of the AIWS City, spoke about “Combined AIWS City and NovaWorld Phan Thiet to build A Distinguished City to Honor the United Nations’ First Century”. Binh...

Speech by Mr. Nguyen Trung Khanh – Director General of VietNam National Administration of Tourism at The United Nations 2045 Roundtable

Dear Mr. Le Tuan Phong, Chairman of Binh Thuan Provincial People’s Committee, Dear Mr. Kamal Malhotra, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Viet Nam, Ladies and gentlemen, First of all, we appreciate the forum “United Nations 2045 Roundtable:...

Viet Nam and the United Nations: Past, Present and Aspirational Future 2045

Kamal Malhotra, the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Vietnam My good friend, Ramu Damodaran, Chief Academic Impact (UN Department of Global Communications), Editor-in-Chief of the UN Chronicle and Moderator of the session. Thank you for that...