Diplomacy Monitor was a free
Internet-based tool created in 2003 to monitor
diplomacy documents (
communiqué
A press release is an official statement delivered to members of the news media for the purpose of providing information, creating an official statement, or making an announcement directed for public release. Press releases are also considere ...
s, official statements, interview transcripts, etc.) published in various diplomacy-related websites, including official sources from
governments (
head of state websites,
consulates,
foreign ministries
A foreign affairs minister or minister of foreign affairs (less commonly minister for foreign affairs) is generally a Cabinet (government), cabinet Minister (government), minister in charge of a sovereign state, state's foreign policy and foreign ...
) all over the world.
Diplomacy Monitor addressed the emerging Internet-based
public diplomacy
In international relations, public diplomacy or people's diplomacy, broadly speaking, is any of the various government-sponsored efforts aimed at communicating directly with foreign publics to establish a dialogue designed to inform and influen ...
, whereby the growing number of governments embraces the power of internet to communicate with public worldwide.
The core of the Monitor was a
web crawler which operated on the websites of interest. After the crawler identified documents of potential interest, they were reviewed and processed by the editorial staff and entered into the
database.
Diplomacy Monitor ceased operations in November 2009.
Since its establishment, Diplomacy Monitor was quickly recognized as a convenient tool for research in international issues. For example, the Monitor is the "editor's choice" for the
Intute, an online database network of UK universities.
Michigan State University
Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the fi ...
: "If you need to stay up-to-date on the latest in diplomatic news, look no further..."
See also
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Open government
References
External links
*{{Official website, diplomacymonitor.com
American political websites
American news websites
Internet search engines
Diplomacy
Defunct websites