Rethinking governance: The West vs Confucius
RevisitWhy did the ‘good governance’ agenda fall short? By overlooking local context, emotional insight, and personal responsibility, Western theory stumbled. Could Confucian reverence and relational ethics offer a wiser path? Aldo Matteucci explores.
AI Technical Foundations, Policy Dimensions, and Governance Approaches online course
Alumni Artificial Intelligence, Telecommunications infrastructure CoursesThis course offers a comprehensive overview of AI’s technical foundations, policy challenges, and governance models. Participants will explore AI’s societal, economic, and geopolitical impacts, and gain the tools to assess its risks, opportunities, and implications within their professional fields.
Are democracies drifting toward psephocracy and technocracy?
RevisitWhen politicians avoid hard choices, courts and experts step in to fill the gap. Power shifts away from voters to institutions that don’t answer to them. What does this mean for democracy’s future? Aldo Matteucci writes.
Diplomacy is where there are no rules
RevisitDiplomacy begins where there are no rules – only open-ended possibilities. Aldo Matteucci explains how real diplomacy begins: with trial-and-error, creative thinking, and turning confusion into agreement.
CPDP LatAm session on ‘Critical infrastructure and digital sovereignty: regulatory challenges for sustainable data centers’
Events Panels and conferences Data governance, Development, Digital business models, E-commerce and trade, Economic, Geopolitics, Jurisdiction Events
The growing global demand for the internet and digital services has consolidated data centres as critical infrastructures for international trade, technological innovation, environmental sustainability and digital sovereignty, highlighting…
Contemporary Issues in Digital Trade Governance: Implications for Commonwealth Small States
Events Briefings E-commerce and trade, Economic Events
Over the past two decades, there has been an uptick and proliferation in the types of digital trade and e-commerce agreements, as well as a variety of multilateral frameworks influencing the digital governance domain. This hybrid briefing provided…
AI Apprenticeship: Learning about AI by developing AI
AI Apprenticeship publication explores how learning by building can equip professionals with the skills, ethics, and adaptability needed for the AI era. Inspired by the Swiss vocational model, it presents a human-centred approach to navigating digital transformation. Drawing on DiploFoundation’s experience, it demonstrates how even non-technical professionals can gain confidence and competence in using AI.
The power of self-organisation
RevisitCan Wikipedia teach diplomacy a lesson? Aldo Matteucci contrasts rigid hierarchies with messy, adaptive self-organising systems, and asks which one truly gets more done.
From Information Warfare to Youth Rights: Building Resilience Through Digital Democracy
Events Panels and conferences Freedom of expression, Human rights
The Czech permanent mission organised an event on 20th June 2025 “From Information Warfare to Youth Rights: Building Resilience Through Digital Democracy”. The discussion was at the nexus between information warfare and the rights of young…
The reinvention of yoga: From ancient practice to global soft power
Revisit Public diplomacy, Soft power diplomacyIndia has championed International Yoga Day as a celebration of its ancient tradition. But is this a genuine cultural revival, a soft-power strategy, or a political rebranding? From Vivekananda to Modi, Aldo Matteucci unpacks the reinvention of yoga.
