Twitter Diplomacy

Twitter is leading a game-changing trend in digital diplomacy and global communications. Its open, real-time, 140-character platform is changing the way that policymakers communicate with civil society and accelerating diplomats’ ability to gather information and react to events. Twitter has been praised as a tool that will open the world to a global conversation and greater understanding. However, it has also been criticized as design that favors speed over analysis, aggression over reflection, and shock over depth. We welcome Colin Crowell, Vice President of Global Public Policy & Philanthropy at Twitter, to share his insights with the Fletcher School and Tufts community. This event will be moderated by Tisch College Dean Alan Solomont. Reception in Hall of Flags to follow.

Colin Crowell is Vice President, Global Public Policy & Philanthropy for Twitter, Inc. In this role, Colin oversees Twitter’s efforts to educate policymakers about Twitter and manages the company’s public policy agenda on a host of high tech issues in Washington, D.C. and internationally and also manages the company’s “@TwitterforGood” philanthropic initiatives globally.

Before joining Twitter, Colin served for over 20 years as a telecommunications and Internet staffer to U.S. Senator Edward J. Markey (DMA). Subsequent to working on Capitol Hill, Colin was Senior Counselor to the Federal Communications Commission Chairman, assisting in the development of the National Broadband Plan and serving as the Chairman’s strategic advisor on a wide range of policy and legal matters. Prior to his government service, Colin was a Jesuit International Volunteer in Arequipa, Peru, where he taught mathematics and English at a Jesuit high school and helped run a community soup kitchen. Colin is a graduate of Boston College with a BA in Political Science and a minor in Computer Science.

This event is generously sponsored by Tisch College, the Murrow Center, the Hitachi Center, and the Office of the Senior Associate Dean and Tech@Fletcher .