Social Media, Diplomacy and Co-Creation of Dialogue

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Partners:: Gov 2.0 Summit,; O'Reilly Media
Location:: Grand Hyatt
Washington, D.C.
Event Date:: 09.09.09
Speakers:: James Fallows,; John Podesta
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Summary: The Gov 2.0 Summit ends the first day with a conversation between John Podesta, former Chief of Staff to President Clinton and now President of the Center for American Progress, and James Fallows, author, journalist, and editor, on the changing nature of diplomacy in an information age.

With the rise of networks, and the connectedness of citizens globally to each other, there are new opportunities to adopt social media to share messages and to co-create dialogues with other nations and citizens. This is the ability not just to find broader audiences for our ideas and messages but to also listen and co-create dialogue, raising the possibilities for better lives and collaboration on global problems affecting all of us.

Welcome to Diplomacy 2.0, the connection of states, peoples, organizations and institutions to each other for human betterment.

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James Fallows

James Fallows is The Atlantic Monthly's National Correspondent, and has worked for the magazine for more than twenty years. His previous books include Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy, Looking at the Sun, More Like Us and National Defense, which won the American Book Award for non-fiction. His article about the consequences of victory in Iraq, "The Fifty First State?," won the 2003 National Magazine Award.

Mr. Fallows has been an editor for the Washington Monthly and Texas Monthly magazines, and a columnist for the Industry Standard. He writes frequently for Slate and the New York Review of Books and is chairman of the board of the New America Foundation. He has worked on a software-design team at Microsoft and as chief speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter.

John Podesta

John Podesta is the president and CEO of the Center for American Progress and visiting professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Podesta served as chief of staff to President William J. Clinton from October 1998 until January 2001 and was at that time responsible for directing, managing, and overseeing all policy development, daily operations, Congressional relations, and staff activities of the White House.

He coordinated the work of cabinet agencies with a particular emphasis on the development of federal budget and tax policy and served in the President's Cabinet and as a principal on the National Security Council.

Podesta has also held a number of positions on Capitol Hill, including counselor to Democratic Leader Senator Thomas A. Daschle; chief counsel for the Senate Agriculture Committee; chief minority counsel for the Senate Judiciary Subcommittees on Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks Security and Terrorism and Regulatory Reform; and counsel on the Majority Staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee.