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. Drones deliver blood to prevent maternal death in Botswana (Un News)
2. France’s plan to rein in Big Tech (Politico)
3. Voters already love technology. They don’t need anti-China messaging to get there (Vox)
4. AI is learning how to create itself (MIT Technology Review)
5. First Look: Air Force 2022 Budget Is All About Technology, Much Of It Secret (Forbes)
6. AI emotion-detection software tested on Uyghurs (BBC News)
7. Senate Nears Approval of Bill to Keep U.S. Lead in Technology (Wall Street Journal)
8. Russia Raises Heat on Twitter, Google and Facebook in Online Crackdown (The New York Times)
9. GCHQ’s mass data interception violated right to privacy, court rules (The Guardian)
10. British, Swedish surveillance regimes violate privacy: Strasbourg court (Politico)

Some Light Reading- A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens.