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Soft
Power of
Social Media,
from Libya-US
& UK to UN
Where Bloggers
Banned
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 23
-- How could
the UN and its
Security
Council be
better covered
and informed
by social
media? Inner
City Press
asked UK
Ambassador
Matthew
Rycroft this
question on
Septembe 23,
not in the UN
but a dozen
blocks away at
a Digital
Diplomacy /
“Soft Power”
event by
Facebook and
Portland
Communications.
#Periscope
video here.
Rycroft told
Inner City
Press that the
best Security
Council
meetings he's
been in have
allowed in
outside
voices; he
noted it is
still not the
custom to
tweet from
inside
consultations,
though perhaps
it should be.
Inner
City Press
asked the US
State
Department's
Moira Whelan
about US
Ambassador to
Libya Deborah
Jones quitting
Twitter back
in March,
after one of
her tweets
about bombing
of the Tawerga
was attacked.
Whelan said
the State
Department
wants to
support its
diplomats when
they come
under fire;
Rycroft said
if a
diplomat's
intentions
were good and
well-considered,
they should be
supported even
if things go
wrong.
Facebook's
Katie Harbath
mentioned that
India Prime
Minister Modi
would be
meeting with
Mark
Zuckerberg; an
hour later at
the Indian
delegation's
press
conference in
the Waldorf
Astoria's huge
Empire room,
there was
confirmation
of this and
other tech
meetings for
Modi. (Inner
City Press
asked about UN
Peacekeeping,
whose chief Herve Ladsous recently linked UN
rapes to
“R&R” on
video, here.)
There
was talk of
the UN and
social media;
from Inner
City Press'
and the new Free UN Coalition for Access'
perspective,
the UN itself
far too
infrequently
responds and
engages, and
much of the
corporate
press corps
resents new
media coverage
of the UN, for
example with
the old UN
Correspondents
Association's
Valeria
Robecco saying
multimedia is
NOT a
photographer
to block
coverage of
the Pope's
visit, click
here for that.
But we will
continue:
watch this
site.
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