TechCrunch has a post on the latest State Department/private sector trip to practice “21st Century Statecraft.”

Prolific tweeter Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) is going, along with Jack Dorsey (@jack), founder of Twitter and the Square, plus a variety of State Department officials — including policy planning staffer Jared Cohen (@JaredCohen) and White House CTO Aneesh Chopra.  Cohen lead a similar trip to Mexico last year.
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iDiplomacy will be covering the 140 Character Conference from the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles today. You can follow us at @iDiplomacy and you can read other tweets about the conference by searching for the “#140conf” hashtag. Jeff Keni Pulver (@JeffPulver), creator of the #140conf, previously held an event in New York City and will be bringing the conference to London on Nov. 10-11.

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