International Public Diplomacy Council (IPDC), a Diplomat Magazine’s partner in promoting Public Diplomacy in the Netherlands and abroad, is reaching the USA, Canada and South America in 2018.
IPDCThe IPDC is headquartered in The Hague. A new cluster has been recently launched in Ottawa, Canada. The IPDC was engineered in 2013 by four Heads of Diplomatic Missions accredited to the Kingdom of the Netherlands and diplomats. Its main mission is to enhance Public Diplomacy practice in the European Union and overseas. We are a not-for-profit cluster of dedicated Public Diplomacy practitioners, including current and former ambassadors and diplomats worldwide. Our policy helps local, regional and foreign governments in excelling on Public Diplomacy.
More recently, in 2017, the IPDC has joined the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa to organize the 1st Canada’s Public Diplomacy & Ambassador of the Year Awards 2018, taking place on January 24th at the Faculty of Law. Awards has received the full support of the Deanship of the Diplomatic Corps in Canada, H.E. Ambassador Florence Chideya, as well as from nine regional (Group) of diplomatic deans in Ottawa. Organizers are honored to have Tony Graham Lexus in Ottawa as the main sponsor of the event. The 2018 Awards in the Hague and the 2019 Awards in Ottawa is already in agenda.
The organization of diplomatic awards (including its related Online polls), is one of the IPDC main savoir-faire.
Awards Organized by the IPDC / National or International Online diplomatic polls for Public Diplomacy & Ambassadors of the Year Awards.
Albeit it might change from country to country, voters choose their favorite embassies by geographical region from an Online platform. Votes count for both diplomatic awards; Public Diplomacy & Ambassadors of the Year Awards. Voters make their choices based on any of the following assets from an embassy & ambassador: The cultural achievement, country image/branding innovation, special events and promotions, Web site or social media outreach, publications, relationship with their own expats, and the embassy interaction with the local civil society.
The IPDC encourages people to vote for their own embassy but to also to do so for other regional diplomatic missions. Normally, seven winner ambassadors -divided by geographical regions- receive their awards during a diplomatic ceremony organized by the IPDC in association with a distinguished academic institution. Embassies can run their own campaign promotion by inviting any person, accredited diplomats or not, to vote Online.
Exceptionally, selected individuals non members of the diplomatic corps may receive a public recognition for their extraordinary support to public diplomacy or the diplomatic corps.
Online Polls for Canada’s awards 2018 remains open until January 14th, 2018 on this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/K6C8D82
As usual, diplomats accredited to the Netherlands, in the European Union and overseas, can send their CVs to the IPDC to join as volunteer contributors.
Special requests or additional information can be sent to the IPDC at:
