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. Europe is too dependent on China for technologies, Finland’s PM says (Reuters)
2. The metaverse will be a digital graveyard if we let new technologies distract us from today’s problems (The Guardian)
3. Why Vietnam has fastest-growing digital economy in Southeast Asia (Cyber News)
4. Nuclear sector threatened by data leaks on the dark web (Cyber News)
5. Twitter is making DMs encrypted and adding video, voice chat, per Elon Musk (The Verge)
6. This World Cup is wired and fueled by AI (The Washington Post)
7. Digital Cultural Relations- Reflections on current practice and key themes for future development (British Council)
8. Twitter alternative Hive hits 1 million users after surge of sign-ups (Tech Crunch)
9. How Washington is reacting to Musk’s Twitter takeover (Politico)

Some light reading- The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, by Piers Brendon