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. What next for Wordle and its fans? (BBC News)
2. The Four Technology Trends That Are Most Likely To Shape Innovation In 2022 (Forbes)
3. Cyberattacks on US schools increasing amid reliance on technology (Al-Jazzera)
4. Hide and seek—how is technology transforming warfare? (The Economist)
5. China’s Digital Silk Road and Africa’s Technological Future (CFR)
6. Saudi Arabia to invest billions in metaverse, blockchain technology (Al-Monitor)
7. Crypto and technology for the people (Nature)
8. Meet the NSA spies shaping the future (MIT Technology Review)
9. Facebook’s dream of creating its own global cryptocurrency officially comes to an end (CNN)

Some Light Reading- Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, By Robert Putnam