It’s past midnight on a Friday evening in Tunis. The Canadian Ambassador to Tunisia and his social media team are riveted to their mobile devices, eagerly monitoring Facebook activity. Homosexuality is a crime in Tunisia and across the Middle East and Northern Africa region, and the Embassy just published a series of controversial posts on
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Executive Summary All the world’s atwitter! Or almost. Ninety-seven percent of all 193 UN member states have an official presence on the platform. The governments of only six countries, namely Laos, Mauritania, Nicaragua, North Korea, Swaziland and Turkmenistan do not have an official presence on the platform. Even the Chinese government’s State Council Information Office
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In the introductory chapter to the edited volume on Digital Diplomacy: Theory and Practice that Marcus Holmes and I published four years ago, I asked the question of whether digital technologies could be seen as a harbinger of change for diplomacy by revolutionizing the way diplomats perform their traditional functions of representation, communication and negotiation.
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International diplomacy is changing fast. Career diplomats in Washington are increasingly finding themselves sidelined and distrusted by their own political masters. Meanwhile, in Beijing, China’s foreign policy professionals are being schooled to prioritise nationalistic rhetoric over subtle negotiation. Then there’s the advent of social media and the 24-hour news cycle. The days of discreet deal-making
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Povodom predstojećih Uskršnjih praznika, Ambasada Rumunije u Srbji organizovala je prijem u subotu 8. aprila. Tom prilikom predstavljeni su rumunski tradicionalni običaji za vreme Uskršnjih praznika. Posetioci su imali prilike da vide i probaju tradicionalna rumunska jela poput kozonaka, hleba sa suvim grožđem koji se kod Rumuna pravi uoči Uskrsa. Za izvrsnu hranu
Koliko znate o mreži svih mreža i digitalnoj tehnologiji, pita američka kompanija za istraživanje tržišta PewResearch u istraživanju nazvanom WebIQ. PewResearch već je testirao reprezentativni uzorak Amerikanaca i njihovo znanje o webu i tehnologiji, a sad je upitnik učinio dostupnim svima. Odgovorite na 12 vrlo preciznih i kratkih pitanja i uporedite svoje poznavanje tehnologije s
Premijeri Srbije i Slovenije, Aleksandar Vučić i Miro Cerar, tokom današnjeg susreta na Brdu kod Kranja, gde je u toku zajednička sednica vlada dve zemlje, međusobno komunicirali na društvenoj mreži Tviter Tanjug UTICAJNI TVITERAŠI Aleksandar Vučić i Miro Cerar Pratioci predsednika vlada Srbije i Slovenije mogli su danas na Tviteru da iz minuta u minut
Proces globalizacije i razvoj informaciono-komunikacionih tehnologija (IKT) su doveli do promena na raznim poljima i do potrebe prilagođavanja savremenog društva novim izazovima. Povezanost sveta i brzi protok informacija su umnogome izmenili sliku sveta i uopšte funkcionisanje određenih sistema i obavljanje brojinih delatnosti. Tradicionalna diplomatija je takođe u tom talasu promena naišla na potrebu prilagođavanja i
With the deployment of Twitter Seva, the Ministry aims to ensure public service redressal in the most effective manner. Minister of State for External Affairs Gen VK Singh at the launch event. (Source: Twitter/Vikas Swarup)The Ministry of External Affairs Friday deployed Twitter India’s live customer service resolution solution, Twitter Seva pushing its citizen engagement to
Steering Canada and the world toward a digital future that safeguards freedom, human rights, prosperity and security is no small task. No one really predicted the full extent to which the Internet would shape our lives. Like most Canadians, and some three billion people around the world, I rely on the Internet. I use it
Zemlje male po populaciji i geografskim razmjerama, kao što je Crna Gora, nužno imaju male diplomatske aparate i ne mogu se takmičiti sa velikim diplomatijama ni po brojnosti, ni po sredstvima, ni po snazi. Ovo ne znači da male zemlje ne mogu ostvariti značajan diplomatski uticaj, već da moraju tražiti dodatne načine da ga ispolje.
Two weeks ago I had the opportunity to further my study of Israel’s Digital Diplomacy by interviewing Gal Rudich, Head of New Media Section at the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Gal spoke to me about the Israeli digital diplomacy model, how the ministry coordinates digital diplomacy messages at the ministry and embassy level, how the ministry
