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... The strategy calls for the department to become more efficient, accountable, and effective in a world in which rising powers, growing instability, and technological transformation create new threats but also opportunities. This report recommends steps that the department should embrace in order to carry out its mission more effectively by taking full advantage of the unmatched science and technology (S&T)
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... Violent extremists effectively use the Internet and increasingly gain access to advanced destructive technologies. Thus, international cooperation based on S&T is rapidly becoming a key dimension of foreign policies of a number of nations.
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... with technical backgrounds and provide increased training and education for all FSOs to prepare them for handling S&T-related issues, including assignments to positions that focus on S&T issues. This report urges the adoption by the department of a broader whole-of-society approach in carrying out its responsibilities at home and abroad -- extending beyond traditional interagency coordination and the narrow band of current external partners as it engages with these and other organizations in search of fresh ideas, additional S&T assets, and achievable aspirations.
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... However, with the spread of S&T capabilities in many countries, a growing number of energetic and talented foreign students and young researchers at U.S. universities and research centers are returning home as suitable laboratories and other facilities increasingly offer opportunities.
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... establishing the Global Development Lab. A particularly significant initiative of the department was preparation in 2010 of the first Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR)
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... , STAS, and a new Bureau of Energy Resources. Together with the previously existing Bureau of Economics and Business Affairs that includes offices for (a)
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... upgrade the status of STAS as a critical node that together with OES can add cohesion to expanded roles of many components of the department and of external partners that should work together on S&T issues, and (d) strengthen department capabilities in Washington and abroad both to promote and support S&T engagement with other countries and to draw on the nation's broad range of S&T assets when appropriate.
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... (Chapter 3) To the extent possible, widespread involvement of public and private sector organizations throughout the country can play important diplomatic roles in many areas involving S&T considerations such as Internet governance, foreign trade, global scientific research programs, and humanitarian assistance.
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... the future of solar energy, including breakthroughs in thin-film receptors, (b) the search for better battery and other energy storage devices, (c)
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... The department's flagship twitter account (@StateDept) recently broke the 1 million audience threshold, and the department's combined social media audience is over 40 million people world-wide.
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... In the near future, the Arctic region will be opened for new maritime routes and for resource exploration and exploitation of considerable economic and environmental significance. A series of dams is being planned to convert the Congo River basin into the world's largest hydrological water complex, with environmental consequences of enor
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... The related foreign policy considerations of S&T advances are driving diplomatic agendas throughout the world on a daily basis. The department needs to upgrade its S&T capabilities and related policies and programs accordingly.


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