Editing Carl Bildt (section)

==Internet activities==

Bildt was an early pioneer among politicians of using the Internet for communicating. On 4 February 1994, he sent an email message to US president [[Bill Clinton]], which was the first publicly known electronic message sent between two [[Head of government|heads of government]]. In the message he praised Clinton's decision to end the [[United States–Vietnam trade relations#The normalization process .281975- 2000.29|trade embargo on Vietnam]].<ref>[http://www.bildt.net/index.asp?artid=263 "First Email Bildt to Clinton"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070210183215/http://www.bildt.net/index.asp?artid=263 |date=10 February 2007 }}, bildt.net; accessed 22 September 2015.</ref> In the same year, he also started a weekly [[Electronic mailing list|electronic newsletter]] which was active until 2005. He is an active blogger, starting his first blog in February 2005. His current blog, started in January 2007, is one of the most widely read political blogs in Sweden.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}

On 30 May 2007, Bildt officially opened a "Swedish embassy" in the [[virtual world]] ''[[Second Life]]''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Simmons|first=Carl|url=http://www.sweden.se/templates/cs/Article____16345.aspx|title=Sweden opens virtual embassy 3D-style|publisher=Sweden.se|date=30 May 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071116033105/http://www.sweden.se/templates/cs/Article____16345.aspx|archive-date=16 November 2007|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The embassy, called "Second House of Sweden", is a virtual replica of [[House of Sweden]], the Swedish embassy building in [[Washington, D.C.]] During Bildt's time as Foreign Minister, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has opened a channel on [[YouTube]] which has been active since early 2008. He maintains a personal [[Twitter]] feed in English with approximately 780,000 subscribed followers. By 2013, an annual [[Burson Marsteller]] survey showed him as the best connected world leader.<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-23438273 Sweden's Carl Bildt 'best connected' Twitter leader] ''[[BBC News]]'', July 24, 2013.</ref> As of 2014, Bildt has served as Chair of the Global Commission on Internet Governance.<ref>[https://www.ourinternet.org/#commission Bildt profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170726193157/https://www.ourinternet.org/#commission |date=26 July 2017 }}, ourinternet.org; accessed 22 September 2015.</ref>