Get ready for the new wave!

Denmark has recently appointed the world's first ambassador to Silicon Valley. The first "tech-ambassador" on this earth, Casper Klynge, will most likely be joined soon by his foreign counterparts.

We seem to have entered a new period, the so-called "technology era." In the near future, technology giants will be as just important as countries. In other words, a country's relations with a tech-company will matter as much as its relations with another state.

This is due to the fact that today a country's global status is closely related to its use of technology. First of all, foreign policy is becoming more and more affected by technology. While the first pillar of diplomacy is traditional (i.e. between states), the other one is public diplomacy, which operates between states and people. The latter is today in the grip of technology.

Nowadays, foreign affairs are managed overwhelmingly through social media. This is why the foreign ministries of many developed countries have formed units called "digital diplomacy" or "tech-diplomacy."

These units develop strategies toward communicating their policies to the people of other countries. Alas, Turkey lacks such a structure.

Secondly, the age of technology has transformed foreign policy fundamentally, since it has changed the security paradigm that forms the basis of foreign policy. Cyber security has become one of the main security threats that countries have great difficulty coping with. Russia's intervention in the U.S. elections is one of the most recent examples.

This new security gap has made countries much more vulnerable. Moreover, a virus developed by a specific country is prone to be used later against that same country. For example last week the virus called ...