Tech diplomacy practice in the San Francisco Bay Area
A fresh look five years after the first mapping in 2018, this report examines how countries engage in tech diplomacy in the San Francisco Bay Area. The report maps a selection of diplomatic representations to illustrate the variety of approaches engaged and identifies both the benefits and challenges for countries and tech companies in pursuing the practice of tech diplomacy.
Sustainable Capacity Building: Internet Governance in Africa
Alumni, Publications, Timeline Webinars Capacity development, Sustainable development EventsHow is Africa building capacities for internet governance (IG) and digital policy? What are its main initiatives? What are the strengths and weaknesses of Africa's digital capacity building? What are the main opportunities and threats for building…
Chinese translation of ‘An Introduction to Internet Governance’ published
Publications, TimelineOn 8 August 2019, the Chinese translation of, 'An Introduction to Internet Governance' by Jovan Kurbalija, became available to download on Diplo's website. The book, globally recognised as a leading publication on digital governance, provides…
New report on Science and Diplomacy: How countries interact with the Boston innovation system
Publications, TimelineA new report, 'Science and Diplomacy: How countries interact with the Boston innovation system' was launched by Diplo and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) on 25 June 2019. The report surveys the existing science…
Diplomacy and Secret Service published
Publications, TimelineOn 4 March 2019, Diplo published G.R. Berridge's e-book, 'Diplomacy and Secret Service'. This historically grounded work considers key questions on the contemporary interface between diplomacy and the secret service. The book is part of the…
Report: Mapping the challenges and opportunities of AI for the conduct of diplomacy
Publications, Timeline Artificial Intelligence
The report 'Mapping the challenges and opportunities of artificial intelligence for the conduct of diplomacy' was launched on 28 January 2019. Commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, the report maps the relationship between…
New publication: The Diplomacy of Ancient Greece
Publications, TimelineIn this Diplo publication, G.R. Berridge looks at the diplomatic methods of the ancient Greeks – thought by some to have been useless – but by others – to have been the most advanced seen prior to modern times. This book works its way…
New version of An Introduction to Internet Governance in Russian published
Publications, TimelineThe Russian edition of 'An Introduction to Internet Governance' by Jovan Kurbalija was published in October 2018, in co-operation with Координационный центр доменов .RU/.РФ, the Russsian country code top-level domain…
Modern diplomacy in cartoons
Publications, TimelineThe publication started taking shape in 2004, when the Canadian Foreign Service Institute asked Kishan S. Rana and Diplo to help develop a short course on bilateral diplomacy in a ‘self-learning’ format for distance learning. A series of…
Tech Diplomacy in Bay Area: How countries interact with the tech industry?
Milestones, Publications, TimelineThe report 'The rise of TechPlomacy in the Bay Area', launched by Diplo and the GIP in April 2018, analysed the way countries interact with the Internet industry in the Bay Area in order to promote the interests of their industry and citizens.…
Data and international organisations (new study)
Publications, TimelineThe paper 'Data and international organisations: Navigating cross-sectoral data challenges' published by the GIP on 13 February 2018, mapped some of the key issues related to data management at international organisations: data analysis, data…
Data diplomacy: Updating diplomacy to the big data era
Milestones, Publications, TimelineOn 8 February 2018, Diplo launched the report, 'Data Diplomacy: Updating diplomacy to the big data era', commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland. It maps the main opportunities of big data in different areas of diplomacy,…
