joining us is alec ross, the senior advisor for innovation at the state department. it would come just in an overall sense -- how does the state department use technology to further its goals? >> look, we live in a world where technology, networks are of increasing consequence in our foreign policy. it is increasingly the backbone for communications in commerce around the world. so for us, it is just a tool, but it is an important tool. we use it for communications. we have 288 facebook pages with 13 million fans. i think we have almost 200 official twitter accounts with a couple million followers. we are using it for communication, but of greater consequence in my opinion is part of what we are looking at our some really tough traditional foreign policy challenges -- are some really tough traditional foreign-policy challenges and thinking about how we can apply to america's unique strengths of our ability and technology and see how we can apply this to any given foreign policy challenge. >> when you release information via facebook or twitter -- >> we do. there are

alec ross of the state department, joe marks of nextgov.thank you, gentlemen. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> here's a look at some books that are being published this week. >> look for these titles in this bookstores this

. >> host: with are talking with alec ross senior adviser and joseph mark of next govern is our next reporter. >> host: you were talking about describing secretary -- how did that happen? how did you take a lot of diplomats who have been in their positions for a number of years and get them on twitter and facebook? >> guest: sure thing. the it's not twist twitter and facebook. it's about mixi part of what i want to do is broaden the notion of the tools that we use beyond google, facebook, and twitter. that's one point i want to make. as to your question, we have knead a value in a couple of different things. every diplomat from the 22-year-old entering the foreign service to a rising bass is now getting trained on the role of technology within foreign policy. every rising american ambassador has been trained by me personally. it's the case because we're a global i are distributed organization working in over 190 countries. there are foreign service officers all the over the world that needs a lot of hands-on assistance. we created something. like a reverse internship program. it's ca

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