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MAR 31, 2012
New Report Gives a Behind-The-Scenes Look at State’s “Digital Diplomacy”
Tech President
Time and again, though, critics and analysts bring up the same question: What has this accomplished? And how do you even measure accomplishment online in the first place? A new report from the Lowy Institute, an Australian international policy think tank, delivers a remarkably detailed look behind the scenes of State's digital democracy efforts, and ends with precisely that query.
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MAR 30, 2012
Winning Hearts and Minds in the Information Age at ISA
Mountainrunner
In the new information environment world leaders are finding that they must communicate with multiple audiences. This panel considers the range of approaches governments are using to meet this public diplomacy imperative as well as the diverse objectives behind these efforts.
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MAR 29, 2012
Wikipedia Co-Founder Adding More African Languages
VOA News
The co-founder of Wikipedia says the languages of Yoruba in West Africa and Swahili in East Africa are the most popular among the several African languages being used on the online encyclopedia..."For a long time there was this sort of cultural concern...
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MAR 29, 2012
Personal issues now part of public diplomacy
Global Times
Public diplomacy has been the norm in the US and European countries for a long time, but in China this concept has yet to be understood and accepted widely. Government efforts at communicating with the public both home and overseas are often criticized as insensitive and opaque.
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MAR 28, 2012
Bureaucratic Cannibalism or Twitterganda?
Mountain Runner
Yesterday, there was a tweet that a senior official at the State Department described public diplomacy as like “old-school American propaganda.” This resonated with many because it seemed to affirm a discrimination at State against public diplomacy and bureaucratic cannibalism.
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MAR 27, 2012
Being e-aware is Diplomacy 101
The Australian
It was a sign of how hard it can be to foresee the advantages of new technologies, but also the cultural resistance they face in traditional organisations. More than 100 years later, here in Australia, our Foreign Ministry is grappling with the latest wave of technological innovation, and so far it has been a very tough struggle.
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MAR 27, 2012
Tweeting diplomats drive culture shift in US
ABC News
In the United States, diplomats are transforming the way they work using social media, and, according to a report released today by the Lowy Institute, the contrast with Australia is huge. The US State Department now has 600 social media platforms with a global audience of more than 8 million people.
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MAR 27, 2012
Why Kony 2012 is bad public diplomacy
CPD Blog
The goal of public diplomacy is to communicate and engage in a meaningful and mutual way with foreign publics. Now non-state actors such as Invisible Children have the ability to do just that. However, with the democratization of information sharing, thanks to new media tools, comes great responsibility.
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MAR 27, 2012
Report: State Dept. has more than 150 people working on ediplomacy
Foreign Policy
"The US State Department has become the world's leading user of ediplomacy," states the new report put out by Australia's Lowy Institute for International Policy, highlighting a range of initiatives that Foggy Bottom has included in its "21st Century Statecraft" Initiative.
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MAR 26, 2012
Uganda: Kony2012 could serve as a wake-up call
All Africa
Kony 2012 represents a successful utilisation of soft power and public diplomacy that may force Ugandan policymakers to react positively to the groundswell of interest in and scrutiny of Uganda. The video campaign inadvertently encourages Ugandans to reflect on the state of the country today, almost 50 years after independence.
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