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- Dr_William_Hayward August 2013
- Leland June 2013
International Affairs Discussion Group Portland
I'm part of an international affairs, politics and ethnography informal private discussion group. 20-30 peeps, older crowd, public location. They have some seriously brainy speakers. Thurs 8P discussion is on the Turkish Spring. Talker is a Sr. State Dept advisor. PM if interested.
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""Subject: * Transparency Begins at Home...and in the State Department - Richar Boly Thursday August 8. Gather 7, talk 8
Our guest on August 8th will be Richard Boly, a career U.S. diplomat
and currently the Director of the Office of eDiplomacy (eDip). The State
Department is the oldest executive agency in the United States. Large
organizations, such as State, have traditionally have kept information in
'silos' and perpetuated a need-to-know approach to critical knowledge that
hindered information sharing . . . and reduced transparency with the
public. Cold war secrecy reinforced a need-to-know culture in which State's
diplomatic corps, selected for risk aversion, was trained to obtain multiple
clearances and authorizations before officially transmitting information
internally. The end of the Cold War was followed by the East Africa embassy
bombings and 9/11, and the lack of information sharing and collaboration
meant that the puzzle pieces remained scattered and threats unidentified.
In the context of the paradigm shift intended to increase collaboration and
sharing, the State Department's office of eDiplomacy was born. Mr Boly will
describe eDiplomacy, efforts to increase transparency and information
sharing, and what has been learned over the ten-year history of this applied
technology think tank within the Dept.
Prior to his current assignment, Richard Boly was a National Security
Affairs Fellow the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he
launched the Global Entrepreneurship Program. He recently served as the
Economic Officer in U.S. Embassy, Rome, where he developed and ran a program
to promote entrepreneurship in Italy. Continuing with his close ties to
Italy, Richard serves on the board of the Mind the Bride Foundation, which
connects the innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems in Italy and Silicon
Valley. Other embassy assignments have included the Dominican Republic,
Ecuador, and Paraguay. Mr Boly is the most junior diplomat to have won the
Cobb Award for commercial diplomacy. Born in Tacoma, he's a graduate of
Stanford University and UC San Diego.
Come Thursday to learn from Richard Boly how the Dept of State is pioneering
eDiplomacy!
Information about eDiplomacy:
http://www.livestream.com/pdf2011/video?clipId=pla_e200de70-6a32-4c75-9607-5
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