Monday’s Must Read List

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

1. Diplomacy has changed more than most professions during the pandemic (The Economist)
2. G7 Digital and Technology Ministerial Declaration (UK.gov)
3. How France’s data scientists are upstaging its administration (The Economist)
4. A Look at Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Passports,’ Passes and Apps Around the Globe (The New York Times)
5. Trump in the Rearview Mirror: How to Better Regulate Violence-Inciting Content Online (Social Science Research Council)
6. Artificial Intelligence in Local Government: Enabling Artificial Intelligence for Good Governance in UK Local Authorities (Oxford Commission on AI & Good Governance)
7. Flaws in AI-powered emotion recognition (The University of Cambridge)
8. Earth Day 2021: Technology Innovation Can Restore Our Planet (Forbes)
9. Reuters finally decides to charge you for its online news stories with a paywall (The Verge)
10. Sputnik Tweets Its Way to Legitimacy (Global Policy)

Some light reading- Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, by Michel Foucault