What is digital diplomacy?
Let’s ask experts, practitioners, and innovation leaders
Whether you like it or not, diplomacy is changing. You can change with it, or the change can take place without you — Alec Ross
From Alec Ross, innovator and former Hillary Clinton’s advisor at the U.S. Department of State, to Anne-Marie Slaughter of New America, and Charlie Firestone, Executive Director of the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program, I sat down with more than 20 digital experts and innovation leaders to map the future of diplomacy.
It’s hard to find a definition of digital diplomacy, especially if we look at it as the way diplomacy is evolving, innovating, and moving forward.
It’s not just about social media, communications, or public diplomacy. It’s about empowering the foreign policy community and our citizens. It’s about disrupting the status quo and learning from past failures. It’s about understanding technology and making entrepreneurship part of government.
And it’s about magic as well!
It has to be unique; it has to be impactful; but it has to be somewhat magical too — Joy Ito, MIT Media Lab
