Listening
This agency directs, leads, synchronizes, integrates, and coordinates efforts of the Federal Government to recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining or influencing the policies, security, or stability of the United States, its allies, and partner nations.
What is the GEC’s mission?
This office serves the American people by effectively communicating U.S. foreign policy priorities and the importance of diplomacy to American audiences, and engaging foreign publics to enhance their understanding of and support for the values and policies of the United States.
What is the Bureau of Global Public Affairs?
The United States has participated in this event since it first started in 1851 with the exception of two, and hosted a dozen of these.
What is the World’s Fair?
This office increases mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries by means of educational and cultural exchange that assist in the development of peaceful relations.
What is the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs?
Created during WWII, with its first broadcast in Germany, this federal entity provides trusted and objective news and information in 47 languages to more than 311.8 million people around the world.
What is Voice of America?
This is the legislation that Congress passes each year to make changes to the policies and organization of U.S. defense agencies and provides guidance on how defense funding can be spent. This legislation also covers defense-related programs run by other agencies outside of the DOD, and included a provision in 2017 that established the GEC.
What is the National Defense Authorization Act?
Originally called the ‘Locally Employed Staffing Initiative,’ this current project sought to change the staffing patterns and structures for approximately 2,600 locally employed PD staff at U.S. embassies and consulates around the world that had not been updated since the 1970s.
What is the Public Diplomacy Staffing Initiative?
The last time the U.S. hosted the World Expo in 1984 was in this city.
What is New Orleans?
More than 500 current or former heads of state have participated in this U.S.-funded program, including PM Theresa May of the UK, PM Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand, and President Anwar Sadat of Egypt.
What is the International Visitor Leadership Program?
The six federal and non-profit entities overseen by USAGM.
What are the two federal organizations, the Voice of America and the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, and the four non-profit organizations, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, the Middle East Broadcasting Networks, and the Open Technology Fund?
The GEC listens to and works alongside state and non-state actor messengers to amplify messages aligned with U.S. priorities, and uses this method to sustainably shape the information environment with independent, factual, pro-U.S. messages.
What are localized information campaigns and networks?
This entity has seven Members that are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. They have been selected from a cross-section of professional backgrounds and serve three-year terms, although they can be reappointed. It is a bipartisan body; not more than four members are to be from any one political party.
What is the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy?
The theme of the U.S. pavilion at Dubai 2020 Expo.
The last time the U.S. hosted the World Expo in 1984 was in this city.
The PD budget for FY20. (All of PD, not just exchanges)
What is $465.80 million?
This provision from the International Broadcasting Act of 1994 prohibits interference by U.S. government officials in the objective, independent reporting of news by the agency’s networks, thereby safeguarding the ability of USAGM journalists to develop content that reflects the highest professional standards of journalism, free of political interference.
What is the firewall?