Diplomatic Note: The plumbing beneath digital health Olga Nesterova October 01, 2026 – 1 min read Share this post Photo: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images Picture taken at the Economic Club of NY Diplomatic Notes Diplomatic Note: Kevin Hassett’s 4% Economy Meets the Numbers At the Economic Club of New York, the White House’s top economic adviser promised an AI-powered boom. The questions in the room kept returning to debt, borrowing costs and workers’ wages. By Olga Nesterova • 5 min read Diplomatic Notes Diplomatic Note: Mexico’s Foreign Policy Beyond Washington By Olga Nesterova • 1 min read Diplomatic Notes Diplomatic Note: The room Xi Jinping just walked into State dinners are ceremony. Guest lists are policy. The White House guest list for tonight’s dinner honoring Chinese President Xi Jinping is unusually revealing. By Olga Nesterova • 3 min read Photo: ICT&health ONEST Voices Dr. Alain Labrique: Building health systems for people, not technology WHO’s Director of Data, Digital Health, Analytics and AI, and related work spanning human oversight, health records that travel with us, and why the infrastructure we barely notice may matter more than the shiny technology everyone is talking about. By Olga Nesterova • 7 min read Daily Brief The Daily | September 30, 2026 What mattered today, before tomorrow’s headlines. By Olga Nesterova • 6 min read Pathways to Peace conference in Toronto, Canada | Photo by the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine Daily Brief The Daily | September 29, 2026 What mattered today, before tomorrow’s headlines. By Olga Nesterova • 7 min read President Trump at the America.gov launch event | Screenshot from the official WH broadcast Explained America.gov could make federal services easier. Who will see what people ask it? Finding the right federal service can mean working out which agency runs it, creating another account and entering information the government has already collected. President Donald Trump’s September 29 executive order proposes a simpler route: America.gov, a single digital entrance where people can sign in, ask questions in By Olga Nesterova • 3 min read Daily Brief The Daily | September 28, 2026 What mattered today, before tomorrow’s headlines. By Olga Nesterova • 6 min read Picture taken at the Economic Club of NY Diplomatic Notes Diplomatic Note: Kevin Hassett’s 4% Economy Meets the Numbers At the Economic Club of New York, the White House’s top economic adviser promised an AI-powered boom. The questions in the room kept returning to debt, borrowing costs and workers’ wages. By Olga Nesterova • 5 min read
Picture taken at the Economic Club of NY Diplomatic Notes Diplomatic Note: Kevin Hassett’s 4% Economy Meets the Numbers At the Economic Club of New York, the White House’s top economic adviser promised an AI-powered boom. The questions in the room kept returning to debt, borrowing costs and workers’ wages. By Olga Nesterova • 5 min read
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Diplomatic Notes Diplomatic Note: The room Xi Jinping just walked into State dinners are ceremony. Guest lists are policy. The White House guest list for tonight’s dinner honoring Chinese President Xi Jinping is unusually revealing. By Olga Nesterova • 3 min read
Photo: ICT&health ONEST Voices Dr. Alain Labrique: Building health systems for people, not technology WHO’s Director of Data, Digital Health, Analytics and AI, and related work spanning human oversight, health records that travel with us, and why the infrastructure we barely notice may matter more than the shiny technology everyone is talking about. By Olga Nesterova • 7 min read
Daily Brief The Daily | September 30, 2026 What mattered today, before tomorrow’s headlines. By Olga Nesterova • 6 min read
Pathways to Peace conference in Toronto, Canada | Photo by the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine Daily Brief The Daily | September 29, 2026 What mattered today, before tomorrow’s headlines. By Olga Nesterova • 7 min read
President Trump at the America.gov launch event | Screenshot from the official WH broadcast Explained America.gov could make federal services easier. Who will see what people ask it? Finding the right federal service can mean working out which agency runs it, creating another account and entering information the government has already collected. President Donald Trump’s September 29 executive order proposes a simpler route: America.gov, a single digital entrance where people can sign in, ask questions in By Olga Nesterova • 3 min read
Daily Brief The Daily | September 28, 2026 What mattered today, before tomorrow’s headlines. By Olga Nesterova • 6 min read
Picture taken at the Economic Club of NY Diplomatic Notes Diplomatic Note: Kevin Hassett’s 4% Economy Meets the Numbers At the Economic Club of New York, the White House’s top economic adviser promised an AI-powered boom. The questions in the room kept returning to debt, borrowing costs and workers’ wages. By Olga Nesterova • 5 min read
