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JUL 21, 2010
State Department is taking right steps to foster Internet freedom
The Washington Post
Since then, the State Department has brought the issue of online freedom to the table in its diplomacy around the world and joined with Internet providers and social media companies to foster public-private partnership in Internet freedom.
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Categories:
Government PD
New Technology
Non-State PD
Public Opinion
Americas
JUL 20, 2010
Governments Get Together to Talk Clean
The New York Times (Blog)
Two dozen countries representing 80 percent of the world’s commercial energy consumption on Tuesday announced initiatives to build more efficient appliances and buildings, “smart” electric grids and electric vehicles.
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Categories:
Government PD
New Technology
Africa
Americas
JUL 19, 2010
State Department moves ahead with Facebook-style site
Federal News Radio
Many academics warn against relying on new forms of media like Wikipedia or Facebook for reliable information. However, an initiative at the State Department is taking advantage of these very platforms to improve agency performance and transparency.
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Categories:
Government PD
New Technology
Americas
JUL 19, 2010
Disaster Response 2.0: Learning From Haiti
The Huffington Post (blog)
The technologies that came to the fore in Haiti are not new. They include everyday technologies -- mobile phones, online mapping tools, GPS, and social networking. What is new is their use in the humanitarian context at the scale seen in the global response to Haiti's catastrophic quake.
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Categories:
Government PD
New Technology
Non-State PD
Public Opinion
Americas
JUL 19, 2010
Updating Smith-Mundt for the 21st Century
The Heritage Foundation (blog)
Since 1948, Cold War legislation has been tying the hands of practitioners of U.S. public diplomacy and international broadcasting. The law in question is the Smith-Mundt Act, which was intended to allow the State Department to counter Soviet propaganda in foreign media...
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Categories:
Government PD
Media & PD
New Technology
Public Opinion
Americas
JUL 18, 2010
Booming Demand for TV on the Internet in China
The New York Times
Some of America’s most popular shows, including “CSI,” appear on Youku.com and Tudou.com just hours after being broadcast in the United States, usually with Chinese subtitles...
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Categories:
New Technology
Non-State PD
Asia Pacific
JUL 16, 2010
What’s important, what’s happening, and what’s public diplomacy
The Huffington Post (blog)
Public diplomacy (PD) -- which the State Department defines as "engaging, informing, and influencing key international audiences" -- is not rocket science. All too many academic theories about PD are incomprehensible, pompously-expressed "concepts"...
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Categories:
Government PD
New Technology
Public Opinion
Americas
JUL 15, 2010
Integrating PD2.0
Public Diplomacy, Networks and Influence Blog
In the last week or so there have been kerfuffles about the blogging British ambassadors and the twitterific cake eating Americans.
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Categories:
Government PD
New Technology
Americas
Eurasia
JUL 12, 2010
Stop the blogging ambassadors
Guardian
The French have an expression for it: Il a manqué une belle occasion de se taire – "He (or, in this case, she) missed a good opportunity of staying silent." The saying was brought to mind by the affair of the British ambassador's blog...
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Categories:
Government PD
New Technology
Public Opinion
Eurasia
JUL 12, 2010
Digital Diplomacy
The New York Times
Jared Cohen, the youngest member of the State Department’s policy planning staff, and Alec Ross, the first senior adviser for innovation to the secretary of state, were taking their tweeting very seriously...
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Categories:
Government PD
New Technology
Americas
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