Corneliu Bjola: What is #digitaldiplomacy?

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 of loss of control, the role of creativity, transparency and trolls, the new ethics of diplomacy, the initiative of the new Danish Tech Ambassador, and much more. After listening to the interview, you can learn more about Corneliu Bjola and his work here: www.cbjola.com . You can follow him on Twitter at @cbjola . And you can find the book "Digital Diplomacy: Theory and Practice", that Bjola has co-edited with Marcus Holmes, here: http://ow.ly/YgBQ30hncBY Thank you for listening to this episode! If you liked it, please share it with others that you think could be interested. And please give us a (nice) review on iTunes or Soundcloud, so that we can start getting traction and reach many more people around the world who are interested in the world of diplomacy and international relations in the 21st Century. We’ll be back in the new year with more interviews with interesting perspectives on the way diplomacy is changing, evolving, and adapting to the disruptive changes our societies and the relationship between them are undergoing these years. The #DigitalDiplomacy Podcast is produced by the Embassy of Denmark in Spain. Music by Bebeto, “Ambient Loop” ((CC) / https://freesound.org/people/bebeto/sounds/554/).

Om Podcasten

Welcome to The #DigitalDiplomacy Podcast, produced by the Embassy of Denmark in Madrid. Here we take a closer look at diplomacy in the digital age and how it is affected by the role that technology and digitalization is playing in the rapid changes that our societies are undergoing these years and will continue to undergo in the coming decades. This digital transformation on a global scale offers both opportunities, challenges and threats to our societies, and in each episode we will interview a relevant practitioner, observer, and analyst in and around the diplomatic world to get different perspectives on how this is changing the way that international relations are lead and the way diplomats work.