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. The United Nations is turning to artificial intelligence in search for peace in war zones (The New York Times)
2. The Internet is Rotting (The Atlantic)
3. Google boss Sundar Pichai warns of threats to internet freedom (BBC News)
4. Climate change: Technology boosts efforts to curb tree loss in Amazon (BBC News)
5. The time to embrace central bank digital currencies is now (The Financial Times)
6. Leveraging digital technology during the pandemic (Brookings)
7. Japan, UK to expand defense ties at sea, military technology (Associated Press)
8. Despite the hype, iPhone security no match for NSO spyware (The Washington Post)
9. Private Israeli Spyware Was Used To Hack Cellphones Of Journalists, Activists Worldwide (NPR)

Some light reading- Discourse on the Method, by Rene Descartes