Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week-
- Facebook, Twitter must do more to stop COVID-19 anti-vaxxers, U.S. states say (Reuters)
- Chinese Hackers Used Facebook To Target Uyghurs With Powerful iPhone And Android Spyware (Forbes)
- Coronavirus: Commission proposes a Digital Green Certificate (European Commission)
- Technology alliance boosts efforts to store data in DNA (Nature)
- COVID-19 vaccine makers should license technology to overcome “grotesque” inequity– WHO (Reuters)
- Facebook shows off mind-reading technology it hopes to use one day with smart glasses (CNBC)
- How to Responsibly Deploy Health Screening Technology (Occupational and Health Safety)
- Why is it so Hard to Build Government Technology? (MIT Technology Review)
- IBM launches ‘Tech For Good’ code technology challenge with focus on climate change (Express Computers)
- The Technology 202: Trump plans to launch his own social network in two to three months (The Washington Post)
Some light reading- Our Man in Havana, Graham Greene