Austin rolls out the culture and the commerce for ambassadors By Dan Zehr American-Statesman Staff At its weirdest, Austin might come as a mild culture shock for visitors from other parts of Texas — let alone other parts of the …

WASHINGTON – Cultural Vistas welcomed four Turkmen representatives to the United States over the weekend to begin a three-week International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) focused on promoting disability rights. Their program, which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s …

flyer-UTfinal PRESSRELEASE1 PRESS RELEASE   For immediate release: MARCH 1, 2013          Media Contact: mmwgawron@gmail.com   Telephone: 512-423-1815   79.89.09    a lecture from a cycle of work by Slavs and Tatars, Friendship of Nations: Polish Shi’ite Showbiz Presentation by Slavs …

Secretly everyone has had the dream at least once where the government calls with a special mission, and you are the one they need. It’s a dream that rarely comes true, and in our case almost got overlooked, when an email came to our Vice President, Adam Price with the subject: URGENT: US Department of State Meeting Request: Activism through Social Media, Pakistan.

Like many would, Price said at first he thought it was a spam email. However, after a few phone calls with Pamela-Jean Mohamed, Associate Executive Director for International Programs with GlobalAustin, he confirmed that this was a legitimate request from the State Department in Washington for representatives from Speak Social to meet with delegates from both the U.S. and Pakistan to discuss the topic, Activism through Social Media. Speak Social’s portion of the meeting will take place this afternoon in Austin; however, the delegation will continue meeting on different topics both today and tomorrow, February 9.
- See more at: http://blog.speaksocial.net/activism-social-media-project-pakistan#sthash.ovdsVZzv.dpuf

In this 7th installment of my series of articles about great American universities, I’d like to talk about the University of Texas at Austin, the public institution previewed briefly in my colleague Jessica’s recent guest post about her hometown of Austin. …

**NEW** Snapshot of Public Diplomacy in Action Interested in following U.S. Public Diplomacy Efforts? Tara Sonenshine, Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, publishes an informative web-based newsletter highlighting numerous State Department public diplomacy programs. To sample a …

The Department of State website recently featured a video which illustrates how participation in an IVLP brought the spirit of volunteerism from America to Zambia.  Click the post to watch it here.

As the global marketplace continus to expand, so do opportunities to invest, especially in the Arab World.  Through Dr. Vijay Mahajan’s rich blend of data and anecdotal observations, you will learn how hundreds of local and multinational companies (such as …

The Reception for the Libyan delegation on Sunday, Jan 22nd was very well received.  Senay Ozdemir, a Dutch-Turkish journalist living in Austin shares some of her thoughts from the reception on her blog:  Senay Ozdemir: The Way I See It