Diplo Blog
What the numbers say: The success of Diplo’s EU/ACP project
The i’s have been dotted and the t’s have been crossed and Diplo’s EU/ACP project has officially closed. The Capacity Building Programme and Community Development in Internet Governance and ICT Policy for Intra-...
EuroDIG 2012 Remote Hub Belgrade
21 June 2012
Gender rights online, Intellectual property rights, Internet governance and digital policy
On 6 June, at the Republic Agency for Electronic Communication in Serbia, a Remote Participation HUB was convened for the first plenary session of EuroDIG 2012: Intellectual property rights in the digital environmen...
The states of eDiplomacy
19 June 2012
'After a long, competitive selection process we are then told we know nothing and can't use the knowledge and skills we bring with us', said an exasperated new foreign diplomat based in Rome from a diplomatic service ...
129 – Will 300 million Chinese leave China for Africa?
19 June 2012
In a two parts article Asia Times[1] argues that 300 million Chinese will soon migrate into Africa. This prediction is startling enough to warrant consideration. The argument relies on a mix of “push” and “pu...
How much water is there on earth?
19 June 2012
Seen from on high our planet is blue tinged – the reflection of the oceans. How much water is there, come to think of it? (Credit : Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.) The left globule is all the w...
Will 300 million Chinese leave China for Africa?
19 June 2012
In a two parts article Asia Times[1] argues that 300 million Chinese will soon migrate into Africa. This prediction is startling enough to warrant consideration. The argument relies on a mix of “push” and “pu...
The genius in all of us
18 June 2012
In 1994, at Inakadate, Japan, farmers seeking ways to attract tourists invented “rice paddy art”[1] – art that would put Chinese conceptual artist A Wei Wei to shame. Here is an example: Farmers use four kin...
Three limits of the Internet
17 June 2012
In this Internet era, we have less and less time and more and more interesting things to do. We simply cannot cope with the number of possibilities available to us. If we cannot choose what to do we often procrastinat...
