Diplo Learning Corner

Canada in the Middle East: How bold digital diplomacy is making waves in the region 0
- Digital Diplomacy, Diplo Learning Corner, Public diplomacy
- 16/08/2018
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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Twiplomacy Study 2018 0
- Digital Diplomacy, Diplo Learning Corner, Technology, Tweetpedia
- 14/08/2018
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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“Tell Me More”0
- " Just Oppinion ", Diplo Learning Corner, Public diplomacy
- 23/07/2018
When I entered the Foreign Service in 1979, my class of 16 new Public Diplomacy officers was taught to cultivate “the Foreign Service manner,” the habits of diplomacy — listening, accurate reporting, careful speaking, and a certain care in asking questions without an edge. So much of Public Diplomacy is about “telling,” it’s good to
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Why Twitter Polls Should Have a Warning Label 0
- Digital Diplomacy, Diplo Learning Corner, Magazine, Tweetpedia
- 28/02/2018
“If you want the public’s opinion on anything — what to name your dog, who will win tonight’s game, which election issue people care most about — there’s no better place to get answers than on Twitter.” This is how Twitter introduces its “Twitter Polls” feature. Twitter polls might be useful for entertainment and business,
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2017: A Year of Digital Uncertainty 0
- Digital Diplomacy, Diplo Learning Corner, Relax for Digital Diplomacy, Technology
- 22/01/2018
In many respects, 2017 was a year of digital uncertainty. It was a year in which digital platforms were used to weaponize uncertainty. It was a year in which the societal role of digital platforms became uncertain. It was a year in which the relationship between states and tech gaits became uncertain. And it was
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Connecting Europe to Latin America: a revolution in Internet governance?0
- Digital Diplomacy, Diplo Learning Corner, E Government
- 19/01/2018
Brazil is about to welcome a new submarine cable linking Latin America to Europe: ELLALINK. In addition to strengthening digital inclusion on the continent and reducing access costs, ELLALINK may offer an innovative model of governance that will protect Internet global infrastructures as common goods, thanks to the allocation of indefeasible access rights to non-commercial
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