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Digital Diplomacy

For decades, U.S diplomacy was conducted behind c10sed doors along the corridors of power. That

was before Facebook, Twitter and YouTube - and Alec Ross, senior adviser to Secretary of State

Hillary Clinton.

Over the past two years, Ross, 39, has been incorporating those digital platforms into the daily lives

5 ofU.S. diplomats. Dozens ofU.S. ambassadors around the world now use Facebook or Twitter, and

the State Department boasts nine foreign-language Twitter accounts. These technologies, Ross

argues, give the U.S. a new suite oftoo1s for exerting "smart power" to advance its interests.

Ross' s effort is a key component of Clinton' s 21 st century statecraft agenda, which aims to harness

communications technology and information networks to address the U.S.'s grand challenges on the

10 international stage: aiding democratic movements, providing disaster relief and alleviating poverty.

State Department officiaIs used mobile text-message programs to raise money and coordinate aid

following Haiti's devastating eatthquake. They've joined with Mexican officiaIs to set up an

anonymous mobile-phone-based tip line in Juarez, a city ravaged by drug violence. They've worked

to build an online map of land mines in Colombia. And they're exploring ways to help bring mobile

15 payrnent systems to famine-stricken East Africa.

Nowhere has the rise of digital networks been more dramatic than in the Middle East, where they

played a crucial role in helping Arab Spring protesters speak out against and ultimately topple

dictators in Tunisia and Egypt. I1's no surprise that autocratie regimes in eountries like Egypt, Syria

and Tunisia - and most recently Libya - have attempted to stifle communication by shutting

20 down the Internet entirely.

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Clinton has public1y condemned such efforts and earlier this year announced a $30 million initiative

to "SUppOlt digital activists and push back against Internet repression wherever it occurs". Ross

declines to give details of the program but says, "We support

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