page_title: United States cyber-diplomacy
section_title: Civil Society 2.0
hierarchical_section_title: United States cyber-diplomacy / Programs and initiatives / Civil Society 2.0
caption_attribution_description: English: Civil Society 2.0 olgo
context_page_description: Cyber-diplomacy is the evolution of public diplomacy to include and use the new platforms of communication in the 21st century. As explained by Jan Melissen in The New Public Diplomacy: Soft Power in International Relations, cyber-diplomacy “links the impact of innovations in communication and information technology to diplomacy.” Cyber-diplomacy is also known as or is part of public diplomacy 2.0, EDiplomacy, and virtual diplomacy. Cyber-diplomacy has as its underpinnings that, “it recognizes that new communication technologies offer new opportunities to interact with a wider public by adopting a network approach and making the most of an increasingly multicentric global, interdependent system.”
  U.S. cyber-diplomacy is led by the United States Department of State and is a new tool in fulfilling the U.S. public diplomacy mission.
context_section_description: Civil Society 2.0 is connecting the information and communications technology community with civil society organizations around the world and provides civil society organizations with access to the latest technologies. According to the U.S. Department of State, it is a program that supports civil society efforts worldwide because civil society helps to make communities more prosperous and stable.  Civil Society 2.0 uses text messages, websites, and social media platforms to connect the numerous participants. The State Department sends technologists to specific regions so they can teach the local population how to use technology and therefore establish a technological society. The technologists will specifically educate the people on:
  How to build a website
  How to blog
  How to launch a text messaging campaign
  How to build an online community
  How to leverage social networks for a cause
caption: Civil Society 2.0
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