Digital Diplomacy & New Technology
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This Week in PD, we share international news on soft power, film diplomacy, digital diplomacy and more.
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Corneliu Bjola looks at how new satellite technologies impact the work of Ministries of Foreign Affairs.
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Ali Fisher uses data to dispute the claim that ISIS is on the decline.
According to Twiplomacy Study 2017, 92 percent of UN member states including government heads and foreign ministers are present on Twitter, and 88 percent are present on Facebook. Therefore, countries such as Pakistan that do not yet have a centralized social media policy to communicate with the foreign public, face the need to develop digital diplomacy platforms.
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Muhammad Ittefaq discusses the need for Pakistan to improve its digital diplomacy.