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One of the defining characteristics of the Russia-Ukraine War has been the emergence of OSINT, or open-source intelligence. The term itself is not new. Several years ago, the British Foreign Office created an ‘open-source intelligence unit’ tasked with gathering information from online sources. This information would then be used by British diplomats to obtain foreign... Continue Reading →
Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week – Here is what Saudi Arabia's city of the future will look like (Cybernews)State Department pursues ‘people-people’ diplomacy through video games (The Washington Post)Inside Ukraine’s open-source war (Financial Times)Starlink: Why is... Continue Reading →
Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week – Crypto is crashing but the tech behind it could save luxury brands billions (CNN Business)China and Taiwan clash over Wikipedia edits (BBC News)Health Sites Let Ads Track Visitors Without Telling... Continue Reading →
Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week – How People From 1955 Imagined Technology of the Future (Gizmodo)The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life (The Washington Post)Ukraine uses 3D-tech to preserve hundreds of... Continue Reading →
In his renowned article from 1990, Joseph Nye hoped to conceptualize how America would exercise power following the Cold War. Power, asserted Nye, rests on the ability to change the behavior of other states. This can be achieved through co-opetive, or Soft Power, or coercive Hard Power. Nye therefore distinguished between two policies that could... Continue Reading →
Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week- The Vast Promise of mRNA Technology (Wall Street Journal)Can Technology Predict War? (The Diplomat)The Job Juggle: Gen Z and millennial employees embrace the concept of ‘Polywork’ (Digiday)U.S. to lead global initiative... Continue Reading →
Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week- Hey, Facebook, I Made a Metaverse 27 Years Ago (The Atlantic)The Technopolar Moment (Foreign Affairs)Analysis: Can Hybrid Diplomacy Work? (Oxford Institute for the Study of Diplomacy)Biden’s new cyber czar is pushing... Continue Reading →
Are tech giants diplomatic actors? This question has occupied scholars and commentators for several years. Some have argued that social media companies have obtained a form of digital statehood. Facebook, for instance, displays many trappings of a state including a citizenry, a currency and a diplomatic branch charged with managing relations with offline states. Others... Continue Reading →
Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week- DOD awards $1B contract to Peraton to counter misinformation (FedScoop)Russian Hypersonic Technology Expert Accused of High Treason (Militray.com)CCTV watchdog criticises Hikvision Uyghur response (BBC News)The UN climate report pins hopes on... Continue Reading →
Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week- What Is Carbon Capture Technology? (NPR)Voice AI Technology Is More Advanced Than You Might Think (Forbes)Cloud seeding in the UAE: The modern technology that’s making it rain in the desert (Gulf... Continue Reading →
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