Event description Were celebrating our 20th anniversary with Diplo Week in Geneva! Throughout Diplo Week, therell be a series of open-door events where you can learn all about the latest AI applications and data analysis, how to use them in online meetings, and brand new online teaching methods! Lets go on a journey through [...]
Technology is having a profound impact on the core functions of diplomacy. The role of diplomacy in the digital era is changing: from geopolitical and societal changes in the environment where diplomacy operates, to new issues on diplomatic agendas, to new digital tools aiding the work of diplomats. The Summit on Digital Diplomacy and [...]
Wednesday, 7th December, 5am EST (11:00 CET), via Zoom Amb. Kishan S. Rana (Honorary Member, Institute of Chinese Studies, New Deli; Emeritus Professor, Diplo) will discuss his new book Churchill and India: Manipulation or Betrayal?, published by Routledge, which focuses on the complex relationship between Winston Churchill and India in the context of the later phase [...]
What will 2023 bring for digital geopolitics, AI, data, and cryptocurrencies? Will the ‘1998 deal’ on digital government still hold? What issues will dominate the UN and multilateral agenda in Geneva and beyond? All these, and numerous other questions that will shape the digital landscape in 2023 will be discussed online on 12th January [...]
Join us on Wednesday, 1 February 2023, 7 am - 8:30 am EST (12:00–13:30 UTC), for another edition of the Geneva Engage Awards ceremony. The annual Geneva Engage Awards recognise International Geneva actors in their social media outreach and online engagement. Geneva Engage examines International Geneva’s global footprint by looking at the social media [...]
Event description Reports are the lifeblood of diplomacy. Every day, thousands of reports, also known as diplomatic cables, are produced by diplomats around the world. With the advent of AI, and in particular the release of ChatGPT, we have to ask ourselves: Will AI take over diplomatic reporting? Tuesday, 7th February, 09:00 EST (14:00 [...]
Event description The webinar ‘Digital Geopolitics in the Asia-Europe Space: Issues, Actors, and Divides’ will focus on digital and data flows around and across Eurasia. It will tackle questions about the possible shift of data flows to the East, the geographical distribution of data centres in Europe or Asia, trends in geoeconomics, as well [...]
Event description Diplo’s Dr Stephanie Borg Psaila (Director for Digital Policy) will be speaking during a side event to UNESCO’s Internet for Trust conference, titled Information as a public good: Which platform regulation for a troubled digital era? The side event, organised by #Leplusimportant, Académie des sciences morales et politiques, and RadicalxChange, will discuss [...]
Event description In an international context characterised by the ever-growing US-China economic rivalry and technological competition, states caught in the middle of this competition are increasingly having to determine which side they are on. Digital middle powers are caught in the middle of the power play between competing models, in an emerging multipolar international [...]
Event description Negotiations are one of the central tenants of diplomacy. Some describe diplomacy as the management of international relations by selected officials via negotiation. Given the recent hype around AI tools related to language processing and language generation, we need to ask: What role can AI play in diplomatic negotiations? Tuesday, 7th March, [...]