yeah ok - more of my crazy (innovative) thinking..
i wish i could have a few minutes with Cohen and/or Ross... i think they would get it.. could make change happen.
i'm speaking just from this article on digital diplomacy - so this is merely a gut feeling of mine:
it appears they totally get it in government - but are so busy with that - they're missing the potential of now using students as some of their resources to solve problems. which would be 2 fold.
1) world problems solved...
2) kids doing things that matter.
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we can fear we can't control it and ignore the space.. or we can acknowledge we can't control it and influence it.
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There’s no precedent for what it meant to keep a social-media network up in a postelection environment,” Ross told me later. “There’s no casework. There’s no legal statecraft precedent for such things.” Secretary Clinton’s decision not to condemn Cohen’s actions was an example of her willingness to “ride the wave,” Slaughter told me. “Things were happening very fast; the stakes were very high. We didn’t put out propaganda to try to influence what was going on there. We simply made it possible for people to continue communicating.
In other words, the U.S. gains nothing from shunning the social media everyone else uses. “The 21st century is a really terrible time to be a control freak,” Cohen said. “Which is a quote Alec and I often use when explaining this.”
Then there’s the chance that, say, Twitter will be seen in some quarters as an extension of the U.S. government. On this point, State Department officials I talked to were philosophical. “This may be a huge difference between the governments that control information — or try to — and governments that don’t,”
these guys are brilliant. i absolutely love what they are doing. let's bleed it into ed.
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