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A newspaper article published last week announced that the “US plans to boost tech diplomats deployed to Embassies”. The plan would see the State...

Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week- Is...

In recent weeks I have begun to explore how ChatGPT, a generative Chatbot created by Open AI, may impact the work of diplomats and...

Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week- The...

Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week- The...

Diplomats and MFAs often seek to break their “algorithmic confines”. This is because social media algorithms limit the reach of diplomats’ online content. Tweets...

Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week- What...

In light of creation of the ChatGPT and its rapid development, questions were raised regarding its legal advice/decision abilities. The chatbot made its very...

We’ve started off 2023 with some positive news. In spite of all the geopolitical tensions, the internet infrastructure has remained intact, with the main...

Skip to content Leigh Turner Ambassador to Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Vienna Part of UK in Austria 2nd September 2021 Vienna, Austria Diplomatic Lessons 12: Tips for Diplomats and Ambassadors These, however, are parsimonious days… The telegraph has made a difference in the position of Ambassadors. When men can and do receive instructions hourly about the smallest details, and, indeed, ask for them as if anxious to escape responsibility, it is easy to conceive that the Foreign Office will not again insist on the Treasury behaving with boundless liberality. “The Times”, reporting on the debate about rebuilding Pera House, British Embassy in Istanbul, after the fire of 1870. Diplomacy has been in a state of flux for centuries. Who needs diplomats when you have the telegraph/the television/the internet? In Moscow in 1993, to find out the latest on the putsch shaking the city, we turned to the live pictures on CNN..