Denmark hired a tech ambassador. After what happened with Facebook, maybe every country should.

Denmark hired a tech ambassador. After what happened with Facebook, maybe every country should.
By Nikolay Nikolov

Casper Klynge is not a conventional diplomat. And serving as Denmark's, and indeed the world's, first tech ambassador required him to rewrite the international relations playbook. 

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The role of tech ambassador was created by the Danish government as a response to two main trends. One is that technology is now a driving force shaping the world – think the Trump-Russia scandal, Cambridge Analytica, etc. The other is that a small number of tech companies are the main catalysts for that change – enter Facebook.  Read more...

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April 10, 2018 at 08:00AM
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