In this episode of The #DigitalDiplomacy Podcast, we talk to Nancy Groves who at the time of recording was Head of the Social Media Section at the UN Department for Global Communications in New York. Groves tells us about how a multilateral organization like the United Nations works with social media, how she and her team choose the topics the publish, the limitations and challenges they face in their daily work of communicating the UN and its priorities all around the globe, and how they...

In this episode of The #DigitalDiplomacy Podcast, we talk to Ilan Manor who is one of the most prolific digital diplomacy scholars at the moment, a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford and a member of the Oxford Digital Diplomacy Research Group. We talk to Manor about his book "The Digitalization of Public Diplomacy" that just came out this January: https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783030044046 Manor tells us why he prefers the term digitalization of diplomacy to other terms like...

In this episode of The #DigitalDiplomacy Podcast we talk to Matthias Erlandsen, journalist and PhD student of Communication Sciences at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and one of the editors of a recent book on digital public diplomacy in Latin America. In the interview, Matt talks about the findings in the book and gives us a lot of examples of different diplomatic uses of digital tools in the countries in the region. You can follow Matt on Twitter as @matterlandsen . You can...

In this episode of The #DigitalDiplomacy Podcast wetalk to Matthias Lüfkens, who is Head of Digital at the PR agency Burson Cohn Wolfe in Geneva, Switzerland, and author of the annual #Twiplomacy study. In the interview, Matthias Lüfkens talks about the results of the Twiplomacy study 2018 and the changes he has witnessed in the diplomatic uses of social media since he started the study series in 2012. Lüfkens tells us how world leaders and foreign ministries use the different social media...

In this episode of The #DigitalDiplomacy Podcast, we dive into the practice of digital communications at the British foreign service with Ben Giddings, Head of Global Digital Network at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. As he introduces himself, Ben is Head of the Overseas Digital Network at the FCO, where he has worked in digital communications for the last 10 years. Prior to that, he worked in the private sector running websites, managing products, and tracking digital ad spend on things...

In this episode of The #DigitalDiplomacy Podcast, we have talked with Shaun Riordan, Senior Visiting Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for International Relations “Clingendael”, a member of the Social Media Team of the Hague Journal of Diplomacy, and a member of the Public Diplomacy Advisory Board of the Sustainable Development Goals Fund. He served 16 years as a British Diplomat, including postings to New York, Beijing and Madrid, and spells in the Counter-Terrorism and Eastern Adriatic...

In this, the third episode of The #DigitalDiplomacy Podcast, we have talked to Andreas Sandre, Press and Public Affairs Officer at the Embassy of Italy in Washington DC., and the author of “Digital Diplomacy: Conversations on Innovation in Foreign Policy” (2015) and “Twitter for Diplomats” (2013). Andreas has contributed articles to the Huffington Post, the Global Policy Journal, and other publications, and has spoken at numerous international events, including TEDxStockholm and Mashable...

In this, the second episode of The #DigitalDiplomacy Podcast, we have talked to Corneliu Bjola, Associate Professor in Diplomatic Studies at the University of Oxford, Chair of the Oxford Digital Diplomacy Research Group, and author and co-editor of a series of books on diplomacy, a.o. “Digital Diplomacy: Theory and Practice” (2015). In the interview, Corneliu Bjola talks about how diplomacy is changing in the digital age, the importance of organizational culture and the difficult perception...

In this, the first episode of The #DigitalDiplomacy Podcast, we have talked to Casper Klynge, Denmark’s new Tech Ambassador based in Silicon Valley. Casper Klynge tells us about his first months in the new job as probably the World’s first Tech Ambassador (but not the last one – recently, after the recording of the interview, France has also named an Ambassador for Digital Affairs). Casper Klynge explains why Denmark has chosen to name a Tech Ambassador, and talks about how he sees diplomacy...