Pursued with coordination, commitment and competence.

We need to be open to the possibility China changes. But strong enough to withstand it if it doesn't.

should not seek comprehensive “decoupling” or shut down lines of interaction or cooperation.

“strength plus engagement”

China will compete not just for power but against our system, our way of governing and living.

Sometimes out of interests. Sometimes out of dislike of the West. Sometimes because leaders share the propensity for the undemocratic model. Sometimes the nations will be pulled only part of the way.

the first time in modern history that the East can be on equal terms with the West.

virtually impossible to think Taiwan will return voluntarily, hence the fear that China will use force rather than persuasion.

It has an ancient civilisation, one of the pre-eminent cultures, and a people increasingly well-educated and prosperous.

the end of Western political and economic dominance.

the biggest geopolitical change of this century will come from China not Russia.

alled “Western policy”.

our belief in big-nation rationality.

what it means in respect of China.

a pivot point

to raising living standards; the only way to improve services whilst reducing costs, for example in health care; the only answer to climate change if we want to maintain development at the same time as cutting emissions.

all about harnessing the technology revolution.

Western democracy needs a new project.

The challenge of democracy is efficacy.

about delivery

domestic politics appear dysfunctional; and to the outside world, foreign policy looks unpredictable.

“too much; too little; too weird; too weak”.

placing as much emphasis on cultural as economic issues;

rampant populism.

There was no realistic alternative, but the policy distorted our economies, rewarding those with assets, penalising those without and was combined with austerity, cutting services upon which the poorest in society depended.

inflection point

Ukraine, he assessed, has held on to a number of qualitative edges, but these have shrunk. And Ukraine remains heavily outgunned.

patterns of behaviour emerge.

Causal Exploration, or CausX

darpa, one of the American defence department’s research agencies, hopes to do this by using natural-language processing to comb through the texts of hundreds of thousands of reports from think-tanks, commercial media and the department itself, looking for correlations human readers would probably miss.

Advanced Joint Effectiveness Model (ajem).

Pioneer,

Real pilots from democracies are assumed to be more creative that those from authoritarian regimes that discourage personal initiative.

to approximate mental and cultural factors

brawler, a simulator of aerial combat produced by ManTech, a defence firm in Herndon,

probabilistic

deterministic

is currently developing or upgrading roughly 100 predictive models, small and large.

requires users to estimate 30 values

it gets seven out of ten forecasts broadly right.

the Major Combat Operations Statistical Model,

When fed information about Russia’s initial push to seize Kyiv and subjugate Ukraine, which began on February 24th, the model predicted, on a scale of one to seven, “operational success” scores for the attacker and defender, respectively, of two and five.

the business of trying to forecast the outcomes of conflicts is going into overdrive

Che Guevara, liberation theology and Sub-Comandante Marcos

The problem with this search for Utopia is that it coexists with generally poor government.

It guarantees everyone the right, among other things, to “neurodiversity”, to “the free development” of “the personality, identity and life projects” and to “leisure, rest and the enjoyment of free time”.

natural paradise peopled by Rousseau’s “noble savage” and a blank slate on which any project could be inscribed.

This was nourished by myths of El Dorado and the Amazons; by tales of the prodigious civilisations of ancient Mexico and the Incas;

to adhere to the UN Framework of responsible state behaviour in cyberspace in order to ensure international peace, security and stability.

the “broken record technique,”

Asking permission in this way doesn’t make you appear weak, rather it shows you’re thoughtful and considerate of others.

You can use phrases like:

it can provide you with an air of authority, since the meeting organizer is deferring to you for your point-of-view.

in advance of the video meeting, review the agenda and let the organizer know where you’d like to contribute.

To avoid coming off as disruptive, signal your desire to contribute by:

over half of their working hours in meetings,

put a lot of pressure on herself to make a “high value” contribution, which often held her back from speaking at all. Heidi was also exceedingly courteous. She never wanted to be perceived as pushy or rude.

45 percent of women said it’s difficult to speak up in virtual meetings and one in five said they’ve felt ignored or overlooked by colleagues during video calls.

11.

the Joint Declaration by the EU and Indo-Pacific countries

he Eastern Partnership’s EU4Digital Initiative

the Secretary General’s Roadmap for Digital Cooperation

to develop digital diplomacy training for EU’s

he Paris and Christchurch Calls

the UN’s Global Digital Compact

Actively promote universal human rights and fundamental freedoms, the rule of law and democratic principles in the digital space and advance a human-centric and human rights-based approach to digital technologies

the Cyber Diplomacy Toolbox

monitor development of digital policy globally, while also informing the EU’s internal policy making.

while understanding the different starting points for digitalisation and use of technologies across the world.

theDigital Diplomacy and Cyber Ambassadors Networks

regional

dialogue and cooperatio

to

he upcoming establishment of an EU office in San Francisco

stakeholders from business, academia and civil society

countries of strategic importance or that have a high level of vulnerability

digital public goods, and digital commons

digital, cyber

the EU’s Green Diplomacy and Cyber Diplomacy.

by strengthening existing multilateral, regional and multi-stakeholder processe

to further develop the EU’s capabilities for analysis on technological and digital policy developments.

s all digital and cyber work

fully coherent and mutually reinforcing with the EU Cyber Diplomacy Network

to strengthen regional digital diplomacy hubs in key EU Delegations

their effects on European digital sovereignty, internal security and foreign, security, trade, development and defence policies.

to make full, systematic and coordinated use of the network of EU Delegations and Member States’ representations to work with third countries,

an EU office in San Francisco

a methodology for observation of online election campaigns as a systematic part of all EU election observation missions

UN declaration of principles for international election observation

theEU Cyber Ambassadors’ Network

the EU Digital Diplomacy Network,

growing scope and sophistication of disinformation and foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI)

to promote sharing of standardised digital data

to promote digitalisation and data sharing in favour of sustainability and the SDGs

Public diplomacy

funding to combat Internet shutdowns

by fostering digital literacy

19.

n international standard-setting processes

the whole life-cycle of digital technologies

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he Declaration for the Future of the Internet.

with like-minded partners

to promote new and innovative digitalisation tools d

a global tech panel

for continued dialogue and cooperation with the private sector, including online platforms, and civil society

a Team Europe approach

as part of the implementation of the Global Gateway strategy.

o increase the visibility of the EU globally

the digital trade provisions in existing EU trade agreements

Eastern Partnership’s EU4Digital Initiative

the UN Tech Envoy

he third committee of the UNGA,

he Human Rights Council,

10.

EU coordination on elections and appointments for positions at UN and other relevant multilateral bodies

particularly in standardisation bodies,

as appropriate, including multi-stakeholder

EU Digital Diplomacy and Cyber Diplomacy

to monitor global digital regulatory activity

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a climate neutral economy

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promote European examples of ethical approaches to data usage

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Exchange with stakeholders from business, academia and civil society as appropriate, both in the EU and beyond

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through support for the Paris and Christchurch Calls

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theInternational Telecommunications Union (ITU), International Organization for Standardization (ISO), International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC),

he Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

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based on the multi-stakeholder model of Internet governance.

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a human-centric and human rights-based approac

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common geopolitical priorities

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built on universal human rights, fundamental freedoms, the rule of law and democratic principles.

its technological and digital sovereignty

Joint Declaration

Today at the Digital Assembly in Sofia, Bulgaria

Roadmap for Digital Cooperation

The Christchurch Call to Action

Cyberspace now plays a crucial role

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

posture

The EU's Cybersecurity Strategy for the Digital Decade

A STRATEGIC COMPASS FOR SECURITY AND DEFENCE

A creative disruption toward our analog and digital prosperity is our best, and often, only defence.

We need the subsea cables, the data centres, the telecommunications infrastructure and other enabling technologies to close existing and emerging digital divides, but we cannot afford to get the short end of the stick when geopolitical tensions ineluctably flare up again.

what strategic autonomy in the digital age would look like for African countries is worth asking

comes to mind, illustrating that when bulls fight, it is indeed the grass (in this case, African citizens) that suffers.

Meta’s bizarre exception to its hate speech policies, including a scenario where violent “political expression” targeting Russian officials from users in select jurisdictions, as well as praise for a right-wing Ukrainian battalion is permitted, stand out in this regard. 

African countries ought to give serious consideration to the terms and conditions with which access to the internet and gateways to the digital economy are provided to the public.

Elsewhere, India is aiming to export its “India Stack” to African countries as a template for building digital public infrastructure.

it is also about putting the continent on a trajectory that can enable it adapt to a rapidly evolving geopolitical landscape that has ramifications for technology and the digital economy.

African policymakers must ensure Africa’s digital economy is not reduced to a pawn on the geopolitical chessboard and a mere battleground for resurgent great power competition between geopolitical blocs. 

has showcased that “neutral” service providers of digital technologies can and have become powerful governance actors capable of making unilateral decisions with considerable ramification for information flows.

The Global Gateway

Global Gateway

Cyber attacks: EU ready to respond with a range of measures, including sanctions

Background

ESCWA annual report 2018: Technology for development

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They created a huge pre-release hype. As a result, on the day the stores began selling the book, there was an enormously long queue. Potential customers raved about the product. Do you know why that is? The answer is simple: fear of missing out (FOMO). It’s an impressive psychological force. It makes people think if they do not get this product, they might miss out on the opportunity.

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Virtual interaction is a simulation of real human life.

my temporal body to be genuine flesh and my soul something that is authentic and eternal

Many scientists and philosophers have suggested that we all might be living in a simulation of some advanced civilization. As fantastic as it sounds, Scientific American reported in 2020 that the odds of this are probably about 50–50.

no-Zoom weekends and a complete moratorium during your summer vacation

on boundaries around our use of the technology

good Zoom hygiene

keeping virtual meetings, classes, and conversations short and to-the-point.

For happiness and productivity, virtual interactions are better than nothing. But in-person interactions are better than virtual ones for life satisfaction, work engagement, and creativity.

videoconferencing inhibits the production of creative ideas.

the Journal of Applied Psychology, researchers who monitored 103 virtual workers’ fatigue during meetings found that when workers used their camera (versus having it turned off), they were less engaged during meetings that day and the one after as well.

One 2021 study in the journal NeuroRegulation found that almost 94 percent of undergraduates had “moderate to considerable difficulty with online learning.”

may be better for well-being than having no social interactions, using video-calling to the point of fatigue has been shown to predict high rates of depression, anxiety, stress, and dissatisfaction with life.

it mutes mirror neurons (which help us understand and empathize with others) and confounds our Global Positioning System neurons (which code our location).

Zoom fatigue has six root causes: asynchronicity of communication (you aren’t quite in rhythm with others, especially when connections are imperfect); lack of body language; lack of eye contact; increased self-awareness (you are looking at yourself a lot of the time); interaction with multiple faces (you are focusing on many people at once in a small field of view, which is confusing and unnatural); and multitasking opportunities (you check your email and the news while trying to pay attention to the meeting).