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. Post-Pandemic Technology Trends. It’s Time To Identify The Friends & the Enemies (Forbes)
2. Google’s Internet Ad Dominance Draws Fresh E.U. Antitrust Inquiry (The New York Times)
3. Can technology help solve the biodiversity crisis? (The Economist)
4. Moderna’s president talks COVID-19 and vaccine technology (Associated Press)
5. UK launches plan to capitalise on science and technology breakthroughs (Reuters)
6. 5 things to know about EU-US tech relations after Biden’s visit (Politico)
7. US and Europe to forge tech alliance amid China’s rise (Politico)
8. Let Users Own the Tech Companies They Help Build (Wired)
9. Tim Cook called Nancy Pelosi to warn her against disrupting the iPhone with impending antitrust bills (The Verge)

Some light reaing- The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx

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