Exploring Digital Diplomacy

After a careful research to find the meaning and implications of the term “multipolar world” often used these days, the freedictionary and englopedia offer insights as...

After a careful research to find the meaning and implications of the term “multipolar world” often used these days, the freedictionary and englopedia offer insights as...

After a careful research to find the meaning and implications of the term “multipolar world” often used these days, the freedictionary and englopedia offer insights as...

After a careful research to find the meaning and implications of the term “multipolar world” often used these days, the freedictionary and englopedia offer insights as...

After a careful research to find the meaning and implications of the term “multipolar world” often used these days, the freedictionary and englopedia offer insights as...

After a careful research to find the meaning and implications of the term “multipolar world” often used these days, the freedictionary and englopedia offer insights as...

After a careful research to find the meaning and implications of the term “multipolar world” often used these days, the freedictionary and englopedia offer insights as...

Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week I have curated a list of the most important digital news of 2021. Happy Holidays! Leveraging digital technology during the pandemic (Brookings)The Most Influential Spreader of Coronavirus Misinformation Online (The New York Times)Tokyo 2020: TikTok becomes the unofficial behind-the-scenes Olympic channel (BBC News)Facebook Will Not Fix Itself (Time Magazine)Danish White Paper: Towards a better social contract with big tech (Danish MFA)AUKUS essentially a ‘defence industry and technology information sharing arrangement’ (Sky News)Hey, Facebook, I Made a Metaverse 27 Years Ago (The Atlantic)AI fake-face generators can be rewound to reveal the real faces they trained on (MIT Technology Review)‘Conditioning an entire society’: the rise of biometric data technology (The Guardian)Facebook is shutting down its facial recognition software (CNN) Some ..

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 20 Most Promising Israeli Startups to Follow in 2021 (Haaretz Newspaper)WSJ’s deep dive into eating disorder on TikTok explains a sudden policy change (The Verge)What is the metaverse? (BBC News)Could Supernova be an ‘ethical alternative’ to the social media giants? (TechCrunch)How to save our social media by treating it like a city (MIT Technology Review)Facebook Warns 50,000 Users Were Targeted By Spy-For-Hire Companies (Forbes)The year Reddit changed Wall Street forever (CNN News)LGBTQ people in need of stand-in parents at weddings find ‘family’ in Facebook group (USA Today)What Google’s trending searches say about America in 2021 (Vox) Some light reading- Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week – Two-thirds of Ultra-Orthodox Israelis are online, COVID driving them to tech training (Times of Israel)How Russia tries to censor Western social media (BBC News)The worst technology of 2021 (MIT Technology Review)India antitrust watchdog orders investigation into Apple’s business practices (TechCrunch)A program for cheaper internet for low-income Americans launches today (The Verge)How “Digital Twins” Are Transforming Manufacturing (Time Magazine)2022 will be the biggest year for the metaverse so far (CNBC)5 predictions for bitcoin, NFTs and the future of money (Cnet)Why our values should drive our technology choices (NATO Review) Some light reading- The Hollow Crown, by Dan Jones