{{Short description|American diplomat}} [[File:RichardBolyWikimania201202.JPG| thumb | Richard Boly speaking at [[Wikimania#2012|Wikimania 2012]] in Washington, DC]] '''Richard Boly''' is a former career U.S. [[diplomat]] and former Director of the [[Office of eDiplomacy]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/m/irm/ediplomacy |title=Office of eDiplomacy |publisher=State.gov |date=2009-01-20 |access-date=2012-07-13}}</ref> an applied technology think tank for the [[United States Department of State|U.S. Department of State]]. Previously, he was a National Security Affairs Fellow at the [[Hoover Institution]] at [[Stanford University]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hoover.org/fellows/8713 |title=Richard C. Boly | Hoover Institution |publisher=Hoover.org |date=2012-03-12 |access-date=2012-07-13}}</ref> where he launched the Global Entrepreneurship Program.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gepcon.org/bios/richard-boly.php |title=Richard Boly / Global Entrepreneurship Program |publisher=Gepcon.org |access-date=2012-07-13}}</ref>
Representing the U.S. Department of State, he served in the [[U.S. Embassy, Rome]], where he developed and ran a program to promote entrepreneurship in [[Italy]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://globalneighbourhoods.net/2008/03/richard-boly-ha.html |title=SAP Global Survey: Richard Boly, US Embassy, Rome — Global Neighbourhoods |publisher=Globalneighbourhoods.net |access-date=2012-07-13 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120901125617/http://globalneighbourhoods.net/2008/03/richard-boly-ha.html |archive-date=2012-09-01 }}</ref> Richard Boly has also worked at U.S. Embassies in the [[Dominican Republic]], [[Ecuador]], and [[Paraguay]]. While working as the Embassy's economic and commercial attaché in [[Asunción]], he leveraged modest program funds to sponsor a seminar for local judges and prosecutors to demonstrate how Paraguayan copyright law could be applied to software piracy. In his monograph "Commercial Diplomacy and the National Interest" ([[Business Council for International Understanding]], 2004, 77–79) Harry W. Kopp details Boly's efforts to persuade Paraguayian judges and prosecutors to enforce [[Intellectual Property]] Rights (IPR) in Paraguay. Boly persuaded Paraguayan Supreme Court judges and other law enforcement officials to address bribery and corruption.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.academyofdiplomacy.org/publications/commercial_diplomacy.html |title=The American Academy of Diplomacy - Commercial Diplomacy |publisher=Academyofdiplomacy.org |date=2011-01-24 |access-date=2012-07-13}}</ref>
Richard Boly is the most junior diplomat to win the [[Awards of the United States Department of State#Sue M. Cobb Award for Exemplary Diplomatic Service|Cobb Award for commercial diplomacy]]. in 2012, he received the [http://servicetoamericamedals.org/SAM/finalists/#nsm Security and International Affairs Medal], one of the [[Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://servicetoamericamedals.org/SAM/finalists/nsm/boly.shtml | title=2012 Finalist-National Security and International Affairs Medal |publisher=Partnership for Public Service|year=2012 |access-date=2012-12-14}}</ref>
Other professional accomplishments include an assignment as the first [[Presidential Management Fellowship|Presidential Management Fellow]] with the [[Inter-American Foundation]]. Boly was a consultant with the [[Inter-American Development Bank]].
==Entrepreneurship== A proponent of fostering global entrepreneurs as an element of U.S. foreign policy, Boly developed and managed a program, "Partnership for Growth",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.intoscana.it/intoscana2/opencms/intoscana/sito-intoscana/Contenuti_intoscana/Canali/Universita-e-Innovazione/visualizza_asset.html?id=858686&pagename=704616 |title=Nasce un ambizioso progetto tra Italia e Usa |publisher=Intoscana.it |date=2009-06-18 |access-date=2012-07-13}}</ref> in Italy <ref>https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FcwoAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ukUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3040,3806017&dq=richard-boly&hl=en {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref> to promote entrepreneurship in Italy by expanding access to venture capital.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.repubblica.it/2008/03/sezioni/scienza_e_tecnologia/italiani-silicon-valley/italiani-silicon-valley/italiani-silicon-valley.html |title=Sei progetti made in Italy alla prova della Silicon Valley - Scienza & Tecnologia |publisher=Repubblica.it |date=2008-03-28 |access-date=2012-07-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://punto-informatico.it/2256268/PI/Agenda-e-mercati/mondo-digitale-nel-veneto.aspx |title=PI: Il mondo digitale nel Veneto |publisher=Punto-informatico.it |date=1996-02-07 |access-date=2012-07-13}}</ref><ref>http://sic.conversationsatwork.org/shows/detail4200.html {{Dead link|date=March 2022}}</ref> the 1990s, Boly founded and ran a shrimp hatchery in coastal [[Ecuador]]. During service in the United States [[Peace Corps]], Boly worked with local residents on micro-business projects.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/61192928.html?dids=61192928:61192928&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+02%2C+1992&author=JOHN+M.+GLIONNA&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+%28pre-1997+Fulltext%29&desc=How+to+Spend+Money+From+America+Wisely+Economics%3A+UCSD+student+hopes+to+create+program+so+that+money+sent+home+by+migrant+workers+won%27t+be+wasted.&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120715055401/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/61192928.html?dids=61192928:61192928&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+02,+1992&author=JOHN+M.+GLIONNA&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=How+to+Spend+Money+From+America+Wisely+Economics:+UCSD+student+hopes+to+create+program+so+that+money+sent+home+by+migrant+workers+won't+be+wasted.&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 15, 2012 |title=Los Angeles Times: Archives - How to Spend Money From America Wisely Economics: UCSD student hopes to create program so that money sent home by migrant workers won't be wasted |publisher=Pqasb.pqarchiver.com |date=1992-03-02 |access-date=2012-07-13}}</ref>
==Change Management== Large organizations coalease into risk-averse environments slow to address challenges. Government agencies typically follow a course of inaction born of suspicion for change and no requirement for accountability.<ref name='Deseret'>{{cite news | first = Timothy | last = Clark | title = How dysfunctional and resistant to change is your organization | date = 2 December 2012 | url = http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865567846/How-dysfunctional-and-resistant-to-change-is-your-organization.html?pg=all | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130629121609/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865567846/How-dysfunctional-and-resistant-to-change-is-your-organization.html?pg=all | url-status = dead | archive-date = June 29, 2013 | work = Deseret News | access-date = 2013-08-21}}</ref> Leading [[organizational culture]] change requires communication, champions and resources. Managing change that sticks involves developing a common team language, shared productivity expectations and may require acceptance of interim setbacks while trending to success. <ref name='HBR'>{{cite news | first = Ron | last = Ashkenas | title = Change management needs to change | date = 16 April 2013 | publisher = Harvard Business Review | url = http://blogs.hbr.org/ashkenas/2013/04/change-management-needs-to-cha.html | work = Harvard Business Review Blog Network | access-date = 2013-08-21}}</ref>
Managing a team of diverse and confident tech creators, as well as the requisite group of experienced bureaucrats, offered Boly the opportunity to apply egalitarian communication to a previously stove-piped, status-fixated information environment. By modeling change processes to staff and others, his management experiments offer a path to other government leaders in the digital era.<ref name='FEDManager'>{{cite news | title = An Interview with the State Department's Director of eDiplomacy | date = 9 July 2013 | publisher = Shaw Bransford & Roth | url = http://www.fedmanager.com/columnswhats-happening/hear-it-ygl/1282-an-interview-with-the-state-department-s-director-of-ediplomacy | work = FEDManager.com | access-date = 2013-08-21 | url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131030092216/http://www.fedmanager.com/columnswhats-happening/hear-it-ygl/1282-an-interview-with-the-state-department-s-director-of-ediplomacy | archive-date = 30 October 2013 }}</ref>
==Social Media Advocate== Using social media for 21st century diplomacy carries a certain element of risk. "It's better to launch and learn and be a bit more entrepreneurial, without worrying that the stakes are too high," says Richard Boly, State's director of eDiplomacy.<ref>{{cite web|last=Herrera |first=Jessica |url=http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20091001_8431.php |title=The Gospel of Gov 2.0 |publisher=Nextgov.com |access-date=2012-07-13}}</ref> During interviews,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rahimkanani.com/2011/03/13/an-in-depth-interview-with-richard-boly-of-the-u-s-state-departments-office-of-ediplomacy/ |title=Writer. Interviewer. Advocate. Strategist. Entrepreneur |publisher=Rahim Kanani |access-date=2012-07-13}}</ref> Boly advances the notion of civil society, global open government and collaboration among U.S. government agencies. Boly leads the team charged with developing the technical tools and training expertise to enable the U.S. Department of State to use professional networking platforms,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.federalnewsradio.com/index.php?nid=15&sid=1908686|title=Federal News Network | Breaking Federal News & Information | Helping feds meet their mission}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://ohmygov.com/blogs/general_news/archive/2010/04/17/state-department-to-launch-its-own-social-network-statebook.aspx |title=State Department to launch its own social network, Statebook - OhMyGov News |publisher=Ohmygov.com |access-date=2012-07-13 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120712014733/http://ohmygov.com/blogs/general_news/archive/2010/04/17/state-department-to-launch-its-own-social-network-statebook.aspx |archive-date=2012-07-12 }}</ref> blogs, wikis and image sharing, to list just a few 21st century communications tools, effective and efficient government has an opportunity to thrive. Diplomacy, the method through which governments communicate officially, is well served by new media.
In practice, changing federal government employee habits and mindsets from a "need to know, to a need to share" culture takes dedication and creativity. “it’s fundamental to what we do,” Boly says. “If you don’t collaborate and share internally, you’re never going to share externally."<ref>{{cite web|last=Keegan|first=Michael J.|url=http://www.businessofgovernment.org/article/richard-boly |title=Leading the Office of eDiplomacy within the U.S. Department of State|publisher=IBM Center for the Business of Government | date=2012-12-03 | access-date=2012-12-14}}</ref> As Director of the U.S. State Department's Office of eDiplomacy, Boly promotes the practical advantages of using social media for collaboration as well as the underlying philosophy of government transparency through use of collaborative online platforms.
==Education== Boly is a graduate of [[Stanford University]] and the Graduate School of [[Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies|International Relations and Pacific Studies]] at [[UCSD]].
==See also== * [[Office of eDiplomacy]] * [[Diplopedia]]
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