WORKSHOP: Designing Citizen Diplomacy

该奖项支持举办一次讲习班，以制定关于公民外交和公民网络专题的智力和研究议程。公民外交和公民网络被概念化为软外交的一种技术中介形式。公民外交为研究人员带来了智力上的科学挑战，本质上是跨学科的：技术、经济、政治和社会。技术科学研究问题涉及作为主要客户端的手机开发新功能、新颖的多模交互环境、一个国家的可靠性？S的基础设施，以及使用技术创造参与的激励。政治和经济研究问题包括研究政府政策、互联网审查、网络使用成本和政治气候的不稳定。社会和文化研究问题包括处理文盲、语言差异、文化意识、寻找其他人参与、发展对他人和技术的信任、管理系统滥用和恶意行为，以及处理时区差异。迫切需要制定一个有重点的研究议程，概述科学和技术挑战，有效地整合这些和其他研究主题，以便从全球网络的社会技术变革中受益。支持公民外交的技术的发展将使美国公民和发展中国家的公民受益。在发展中国家和发达国家之间建立公民网络将有助于打破文化、社会和政治障碍。接受这样的？自下而上？对公民的态度可能会影响国家一级的政策。发达国家和发展中国家的人民都将从学习新的思想和文化实践中受益。最重要的是，我们希望公民外交能够使年轻人接触到其他生活方式，从而限制当地极端主义观点的影响。

This award supports a workshop to develop an intellectual and research agenda on the topics of citizen diplomacy and citizen networks. Citizen diplomacy and citizen networks are conceptualized as a technologically mediated form of soft-diplomacy. Citizen diplomacy raises intellectual scientific challenges for researchers that are by nature interdisciplinary: technical, economic and political, and social. Technical scientific research questions concern developing new capabilities for the mobile phone for use as a primary client, novel multimodal interaction environments, the reliability of a country?s infrastructure, and using technology to create incentives to participate. Political and economic research questions include studying government policy, Internet censorship, the cost of network use, and the instability of political climates. Social and cultural research questions include dealing with illiteracy, language differences, cultural awareness, finding others to participate, developing trust in others and in technology, managing system abuse and malicious behavior, and dealing with time zone differences. There is a critical need to develop a focused research agenda that outlines the scientific and technical challenges that effectively integrates these and other research topics to benefit from the socio-technical transformations of the world wide network.The development of technologies to support citizen diplomacy will benefit citizens of the United States as well as those in developing countries. Creating citizen networks between the developing and developed worlds will help to break down cultural, social, and political barriers. Taking such a ?bottom-up? approach with citizens may influence policy at national levels. People in both developed and developing countries will gain by learning new ideas and cultural practices. Above all, we expect that citizen diplomacy can expose young people to alternative life paths, thus limiting the impacts of local extremist views.