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Has the Internet made public diplomacy irrelevant?
By Sanjana Rathi Introduction It is ubiquitous to see nations around the world reaching out to the public, both domestic and foreign, to shape public opinions on one hand and exert influence on the other. As a result of public diplomacy, national leaderships are showing the urgency to connect to people for explaining government postures and decisions and communicating the desired ‘images.’ Therefore, it is essential to understand the meaning of public diplomacy and the Internet’s role in this age. At the same time we also see a surge of fake news and politicisation of media platforms. There is massive amount of data being created and social media rules are…
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The European Union, no longer the Queen of privacy?
TraceTogether in Singapore, Aarogya Setu in India, StopCovid in France, Covidsafe in Australia… Contact tracing applications are flourishing around the world and becoming the new trendy governmental tool to track the spread of COVID-19. This fashionable tool’s main purpose, is to prove that a citizen has been in proximity to someone tested positive for coronavirus. Thus, Privacy International and other organizations raised concerns about the rush to deploy technologies and the dangerous false debate between health and privacy. So contact tracing app is the new trendy and polemical thing, but how does it work? Is it the seed of a dystopian surveillance state? Above all, how does the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)…
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Has the Internet made public diplomacy irrelevant?
