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The Consulate General of Germany in New York hosted a Digital Diplomacy meetup event yesterday featuring Andreas Sandre in discussion with Mashable ’s Editor-at-Large, Lance Ulanoff . Andreas presented the main ideas in his newly released book - Digital Diplomacy: Innovations in Foreign Policy , and Lance asked some tough questions regarding the nature of diplomacy and how digital is shaping its future.
(Andreas and Lance looking dapper)
One of the main takeaways was the potential for big data as it applies to everything - from how countries can help citizens to how governments can help other governments through tools built from collecting, analyzing and sharing big data sets. Andreas also describes this as the road to “Digital Diplomacy 3.0”. If “Diplomacy 2.0” was about “Transformational Diplomacy” in real-time then its next-gen version is about collaboration and working together across sectors to explore how digital technologies (beyond