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I’ve asked a US diplomat friend of mine what his experience had been with Facebook as a tool in diplomacy. Here is his answer: “we had good results with Facebook outreach to Palestinians and Israeli Arabs on business, economic, social and technology issues.”
There are a few interesting lessons to glean from this short statement.
The most important one in my view is that it...
Jovan has commented recently on the name tags people wear around their necks when they attend a meeting http://bit.ly/SDO5C2 . He looked at it from the practical point yield “usability”. Jovan’s point is wholly valid. Tag design should aim foremost to being useful, i.e. to allow easy identification among participants – and security people.
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ACTA protest in London
Last weekend, thousands of people took to the streets of freezing European cities to protest...
Like everything else, confidentiality is affected by the law of inflation. The multiplication of the inflated object (usually money) reduces its value. There are various reasons behind the growing number of confidential documents in diplomatic services. Aside from the fact that the sheer volume of one’s reporting is very often a major career ‘barometer’, diplomats often assign...
See also: “Leak in Time“
A diplomatic cable is a diplomatic message. The etymology goes back to the mid-nineteenth century when the first diplomatic messages were sent via telegraph. Telegraphs were connected by telegraph cables and the focus...
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