Voices of the Next Generation with Kalev Leetaru on Big Data
Kalev Leetaru discusses how big data is reshaping the conduct of diplomacy, risks to national security, and business operations in the 21st...
Speaker: Kalev Leetaru, 2013 - 2014 Yahoo! Fellow in Residence, International Values, Communications Technology, and the Global Internet, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Presider: Vivian Schiller, Media Executive
October 27, 2014
Kalev Leetaru discusses how big data is reshaping the conduct of diplomacy, risks to national security, and business operations in the 21st century.
This meeting is part of the Council on Foreign Relations' Voices of the Next Generation series, which seeks to bring CFR members together with fresh, young voices in the nation's foreign policy discourse.
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Kalev Leetaru discusses how big data is reshaping the conduct of diplomacy, risks to national security, and business operations in the 21st...
Kalev Leetaru discusses how big data is reshaping the conduct of diplomacy, risks to national security, and business operations in the 21st...
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