Prerequisites

• High school diploma, preferably a university degree in journalism, media or humanities.
• Good knowledge of various digital platforms.

Course Description

Digital diplomacy course, or the digital strategy for institutions, is a specialized course for diplomats and workers in media departments, especially the departments of communication platforms in embassies, ministries, and official and private institutions, monitoring digital crises and how to deal with them and their repercussions on crises on the ground.

Course Objective

By the end of this course, participants will:
• Clarify concepts and strategies of digital diplomacy.
• Early crisis monitoring and source and content analysis.

Course Outline

• Challenges and opportunities in the digital age:
- Digital crises.
- Digital sources.
- Digital strategies.
- Digital diplomacy and experiences of leading countries.

• Early monitoring of digital crises:
- Techniques for early crisis monitoring.
- Analyze digital crises to determine if they are real crises or repercussions.
- Monitor and analyzing digital content, source analysis, and classification.
- Analyze public trends and building digital strategies for institutions.

Course Benefits

• A graduation certificate by Aljazeera Media Institute.