The main objective of DD-Tech is to develop a Digital Diplomacy Module that enables students to acquire skills for conducting digital diplomacy, applying it in innovation processes, and enhancing their capacity for technological solutions. We aim to develop a digital-based curriculum for a future-oriented education model, utilizing digital education and communication tools, and training future diplomats who can understand global trends to enhance collective design capabilities and promote a culture of collaboration. The specific objectives are: 1) preparing students for higher education and adopting ICT technologies to the learning applications 2) creating interactive content that will enable curriculum updates to be developed with constantly developing new technologies 3) developing network-based learning applications to adopt new technologies to higher education 4) discovery of common cooperation opportunities in different fields 5) establishing a program with accessible features such as disabled access, physical barriers removed. With digital diplomacy teaching, we aim to provide students to develop their abilities to identify and analyze the key problems and opportunities of digitalization.
Digital diplomacy is the use of new information communication technologies, the internet and social media to help achieve diplomatic goals, strengthen diplomatic relations and solve foreign policy issues. New trends in digitalization have revolutionized the nature of diplomacy by transforming the communication medium in which diplomacy is conducted. It is a necessity for governments to adapt their understanding of diplomacy to ‘the digital’. States face the challenges of rapid technological changes, requiring the development of strategies that leverage new technologies for more effective diplomacy. Digitalization has significantly impacted social and political dynamics, raising questions about how these shifts can be understood and addressed. The (mis)use of digital tools in diplomatic networking presents critical issues that demand thoughtful technological responses and solutions. Students as future policy-makers who will suffer from global problems, need to learn digital diplomacy to enhance their digital skills with an innovative approach. We aim to provide students to develop their abilities to analyze the key problems and risks of digitalisation and how diplomatic mindsets and techniques can be applied to managing them.