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. Here is what Saudi Arabia’s city of the future will look like (Cybernews)
2. State Department pursues ‘people-people’ diplomacy through video games (The Washington Post)
3. Inside Ukraine’s open-source war (Financial Times)
4. Starlink: Why is Elon Musk launching thousands of satellites? (BBC News)
5. Meet Britain’s new ship that will test autonomous and lethal technologies (DefenseNews)
6. New Lithium Mining Technology Could Give Argentina a Sustainable Gold Rush (Time)
7. TikTok pledges more transparency for researchers amid renewed scrutiny (CNN)
8. Indonesia bans access to Epic Games, PayPal, and more (The Verge)
9. As more space junk falls to Earth, will China clean up its act? (The Guardian)

Some light reading- Mythologies, by Roland Barthes