Diplo Alumni Blog

Privacy Shield challenged a second time

Ana Andrijevic

(with contributions from Aida Mahmutović) The fight over personal data transfers between the European Union (EU) and the USA is not over. Earlier this month, a second legal challenge directed at the Privacy Shield f...

I’m not a ‘technical person’, but I don’t have to be

Michael Oghia

Let me start with this, a more common utterance than not that I have often said as well as heard: when it comes to the Internet, I am not a technical person. What I mean is that I did not major in computer engineering...

E-commerce in Europe: consultations, court rulings, and other updates in September

Adriana Minović

With contributions from Barbara Rosen Jacobson, Roxana Radu, Marília Maciel, Sorina Teleanu, and Stephanie Borg Psaila The last few weeks were a vibrant period for e-commerce. New initiatives have flourished on a gl...

The rise of e-commerce initiatives: From expanding access to taxation

Ana Andrijevic

With contributions from Barbara Rosen Jacobson, Roxana Radu, Marília Maciel, Adriana Minović, and Jovan Kurbalija E-commerce has been remarkably present in intergovernmental forums this summer. Many new initiatives...

EU-US Privacy Shield’s seven principles

Aida Mahmutović

Nine months after the invalidation of the Safe Harbour Agreement, the European Commission (EC) confirmed that the new EU-US Privacy Shield affords adequate protection to the privacy of EU citi­zens. The framework imp...

Studying public diplomacy – experiences of a Portuguese diplomat

I am currently contributing to a study on Portugal’s public diplomacy. The aim is to provide recommendations for a renewed dialogue between the ministry and stakeholders at home and abroad. The study follows the ca...

The role of trust in digital diplomacy

Zeljka Desiree Miloshevic

Users’ trust in different aspects of the Internet ecosystem has been in decline following the Snowden revelations and other recent developments. While trust is subjective and contextual, it is increasingly in focus ...

Measuring reputation through digital diplomacy at international organisations

Keith Powell

There is a wealth of information about digital diplomacy at the state level, and while much of the literature is interesting and informative, it doesn’t really speak to using digital diplomacy techniques at the inte...