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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...
Mainstream media no longer controls the narrative on a policy subject. It must expect debate, and counter-narratives. The next best thing to influence a policy narrative is to speak up early and loudly in order to set the theme and tone of the discussion. L. Gordon CROVITZ’s editorial in the WSJ[1] serves...
(This blog entry is the second of two parts. In Part I an enabler – horsemanship – was shown progressively to transform material society. In Part II the social consequences of the enabler’s impact are visited)
At the “border” between nomadism and settled agriculture much exchange was taking place. Occasionally, however, nomads penetrated deep into settled...
Jovan has asked me to reflect on how to determine the “public interest”. As a lazy skeptic I’ve shied away from the subject. It is at the crossroads of epistemology, chaos theory, political science, and consciousness – and much more. I feel like the old man in the movie: The Pink Panther. It is night, and the Pink Panther jewel has just been stolen from Princess Dalah’s...
It’s Easter time – it rains, drip drip drip, and the Easter bunny has knocked at the door begging for a place to stay out of the rain
(If anyone thinks writing about evolution in a diplomacy blog is far-fetched, I’ll point to Robert M. SAPOLSKI’s I/2006 article in Foreign Affairs on the “natural history of peace”)
We’ll never know for sure, but on the way to current preponderance in the world humankind took two unique steps.
First it learned to cook – cooking food over fire “...
Twitter has introduced a new policy allowing the possibility of filtering tweets at the request of local governments. This major departure in policy has triggered an avalanche of tweet-style protests.
‘It is a supercomplex issue’, complained Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo in a recent interview. He continued: ‘When...
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), also known as H.R. 3261, is a bill that was introduced in the USHR on October 26, 2011. The bill, if made law, would expand the ability of U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods....
The following report from India[1] has reached me: “The Delhi High Court on Thursday warned social networking site Facebook India and search engine Google India that websites can be “blocked” like in China if they fail to devise a mechanism to check and remove objectionable material from their web pages...
In a previous post I discussed Mr. CERF’s catchy phrase in his NYT[1] Op-Ed: “technology is an enabler of rights, not a right itself”. Mr. CERF seems to have a dualist worldview: here there is “enabling technology”, which is “neutral”, and there are “rights”, which are political – and never the twain need meet. This is Platonic...
Last week in the Hague, at the Internet Freedom Conference, European Commission Vice-President Neelie Kroes outlined the elements for the EU’s digital diplomacy strategy for dealing with Internet policy issues.[1]
Formally speaking, the architecture of the EU’s digital diplomacy will involve her department (...
One of the collateral consequences of the recent WikiLeaks situation will be its effects on Internet governance and policy. The foundations of Internet politics have been seriously shaken. The fissures that did not appear during previous stress tests including Iraq and Afghanistan, manifested themselves in a matter of days during the...
Last evening, as I approached my apartment, I heard my wife shouting at my daughter: “I told you not to play with Skype”. I entered as the peacemaker between warring factions and realised that there was a problem with Skype. As you know, Skype was down globally for 5 hours on Wednesday. Many of our friends reported similar “incidents” blaming others for their...
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