Panel Discussion
Digital diplomacy in the 21st century: to Tweet or not to Tweet in foreign affairs?
5 September, 13.00 – 14.30, Hotel Golf, Libertas Hall
Never before in the history of foreign affairs or diplomacy have heads of state had a method of such immediate and uncensored communication at their disposal as they have today with social media tools such as Twitter.
We saw social media play an important part in the Arab Spring, and recently in Turkey during an attempted coup. However, political leaders nowadays bypass traditional forms of communication and conduct foreign policy in 140 characters or less via Twitter, without reflecting on their action or its consequences.
Some argue that foreign policy should not be conducted via Twitter, while others feel that Twitter and the vast array of social media tools available today could launch a new form of public diplomacy, called Public Diplomacy 2.0. To Tweet or not to Tweet in foreign affairs, that is the question.
This panel discussion will be held in cooperation with the Global Diplomacy Lab (GDL), an initiative by the German Federal Foreign Office and several private foundations and an international cross-sectoral platform for exploring a more inclusive diplomacy which goes beyond traditional politics.
Speakers:
- H.E. Mr Nikola Dimitrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Macedonia
- Mr Ilan Manor, PhD candidate at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom
- Mr Eirliani Abdul Rahman, Member of Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council, Singapore
Moderator: Ms Nora Müller, Executive Director International Affairs at Körber-Stiftung, Germany
To download the session backgrounder click here.
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