Public diplomacy

Towards A New Era Of Public Diplomacy: Twiplomacy

From the 1990s onwards, many scholars concentrated on media diplomacy and then on the possibilities offered by the spread of internet. However, these technologies...

A Message To The Public Diplomacy Community From Richard Stengel, Under Secretary For PD

The below message was distributed to members of the public diplomacy community via e-mail on Feb. 18, 2014 by the State Department. On my first...

A quote on Cultural Diplomacy

Not that I didn't have enough to do... but well, next month the International Studies Association (ISA) will be holding its Annual Convention, again,...

US SD Global Social Media Presence

The U.S. Department of State's social media presence extends around the world – including U.S. embassies, consulates, and other missions. The list below represents...

Diplotwoops: What deleted diplomatic tweets say about the Ukraine

Recent diplomatic activity around the crisis in the Ukraine is not only headline news but deleted tweets of diplomats and embassies show another side...

Internet Freedom: The Role of the U.S. State Department …..

What’s the Issue? Internet freedom was until recently not a foreign policy issue. Newton-Small traces the origins of the policy to a conversation four years...

Public Diplomacy ….

By: Fergus Hanson "Our basic assumption is that we’ve all lost control of the information environment—the only option is to embrace the change and work...

The History of eDiplomacy at the U.S. Department of State ..

Despite the United States’ long history of innovation in the field of communications technologies, the State Department’s emergence as the world’s leading user of...

Baked in and Wired: eDiplomacy @ State .

By: Fergus Hanson eDiplomacy has dramatically changed the way diplomacy is being conducted. The State Department now communicates directly with more than 15 million people...

Sharing Sprint 14

With Sprint 14 now behind us, we wanted to share Baroness Martha Lane Fox’s opening speech, and the presentations and workshops given on the...