e-Diplomacy: New Challenges, New Tools, and New Methods

Riefqi Muna in his presentation titled "e-Diplomacy: New Challenges, New Tools, and New Methods" states that the development of social media today, classical diplomacy will increasingly challenged because everyone becomes sovereign. Kofie Annan in 1992 authored an article in The Economist regarding the two concepts regarding sovereignty, the state security and also human security. Quite simply, a country can not declare that the country is safe in case there are still people who are patients of repression in his region. Unavoidable of this idea is that people have sovereignty. Inside social media system that is certainly open, anyone can a single thing on the website as far as obligation and personal limitations within each.

According Riefqi, ICT revolution through which open access community is more open along with interactive with the charge depending on the system wherever we get access. The particular interesting thing as well as the country needs to understand is that communication involving countries is now "almost free", that's very cheap. World significantly connected and complex vibrant at the same time. With this problem becomes very tough hierarchies of leadership as well as control of information and data to be very clear. Social websites is just a tool yet it's essential in promoting concepts, participation and mobilization who have impact on, among other things, unusual policy and diplomacy of an country. In addition to creating a positive impact, would certainly also be at risk or even literate about the arena of social media.
As a suggestion, Riefqi revealed some new approaches in the context of diplomacy that need focus.

1. The government, in this instance the Ministry of Overseas Affairs, the need to commit more to ICT methods and tools that will support diplomacy.
2. Commit on data-mining, which gathers real-time information by others, through the so-called competitive thinking ability. In relation to diplomacy and international policy, for the future, inside collection of information is unable to rely on the idea by humans nevertheless must be backed up by the tool for data-mining, that is Open Source Intelligence which you can use. It is very helpful to your choice making process.
3. The Foreign Ministry ought to invest more in to research and examination including on Risk-Analysis which isn't currently done, specially strategic foresight, the particular calculation of probable trends what happens in the foreseeable future. There are various methods, one particular through horizon encoding.
4. Reducing the volume and invest classical diplomat to the diplomat who has the proportions to negotiate.
5. Focusing e-diplomacy as if it's company as usual continues, you have to will be late as a result of developed her right now there without leaving the original, but reduce the sum.
6. Expand general public participation in which community diplomacy in the context of citizen diplomacy is vital.
7. With raising citizen participation, their state in this context ought to provide facilities for the engagement of its citizens.
8. State agencies usually supplies information open to the population with the communicative content.

Although people nonetheless use it for things that are certainly not necessary, but there is the opportunity in which the government may use to communicate with the community. Social media and web can be used for branding, just as many large businesses. Diplomacy also need corporate personalization and social media since tools in public diplomacy along with engagement through information. Because of the proliferation of reports no longer be dammed and unrestricted growth, if it utilized the tools of e-government within government be a fascinating thing where everybody is able to wear and state diplomacy is not boring.