Diplo Blog
Elon Musk’s Twitter experiment could be a success – even if it fails
04 May 2022
Elon Musk could save social media whether he succeeds or fails in making Twitter an open space for responsible free speech. It is an enormous task, much more complex than Musk’s previous business successes with Tesl...
Cyber-Panopticism: A perilous techno-political issue
29 April 2022
The global cyber security environment is confronted with a variety of problems, such as network information inundation, information pollution, information infringement, information monopoly and the cybersecurity cri...
National champions do not help to win the race for digital industrialisation
27 April 2022
From a governmental perspective, national champions are usually private-led companies seen as vital to promoting the interests of the nation. Often, this recognition translates into governmental policies that support ...
What’s new with cybersecurity negotiations: OEWG 2021-2025 second substantive session
25 April 2022
The UN Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on cyber, which will be active until 2025, held its second substantive session. The discussions were overtaken by an organisational issue that should have been solved at the very...
Time to reflect: Multilateralism Day
24 April 2022
24 April is the International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace. This year, as multilateralism is in a profound crisis, it is definitely not a time for celebration. But it is not a time for desperation ei...
Digital governance and diplomacy 2025: A cheat sheet
21 April 2022
The year 2025 will be a landmark year for digital diplomacy and global governance. It is the year of wrapping up the UN cybersecurity OEWG and the negotiations on cybercrime at the Ad Hoc group. It\'s the year UN m...
Will science diplomacy survive?
15 April 2022
Science diplomacy will very likely survive, but in a different form. Diplomats will continue to negotiate scientific collaboration, as they do in other areas of diplomacy such as food, health, and trade. However, scie...
The US is pursuing holistic digital diplomacy
15 April 2022
Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, US intelligence agencies were fundamentally reformed in order to address fragmentation and policy silos as major reasons for their failure to prevent these attacks. It is now the ...
