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Model Diplomat is an AI-powered research and workspace platform built specifically for Model United Nations (MUN), debate, politics, and global affairs. Other AI invents UN resolutions. Model Diplomat cites the real one — every line linked to the resolution, vote, or treaty it came from. For Model UN, debate, and anyone who takes politics seriously.

Ask a question in plain language and the answer is assembled from documents that were actually retrieved: treaties and their ratification records, UN roll-call votes, declassified cables, ICJ and national case law, official datasets, and peer-reviewed scholarship. Every footnote is a document one can open. The pipeline cannot cite something it did not find — so an invented resolution never reaches position papers or committee floors. Answer can be turned into a position paper, essay, memo or speech with the footnotes travelling with it.

Built for Model UN delegates and chairs, competitive debaters, IB and AP students, teachers and coaches, university researchers, and analysts who have to stand behind their sources.

Core Overview

  • Founders & Launch: Founded in 2023 by Georgina Songhurst and Karl-Gustav Kallasmaa, and based in San Francisco, California.
  • User Base: Used by over 100,000 students, researchers, and journalists globally.
  • Primary Focus: Instead of relying on the open web (which can cause AI hallucinations), it retrieves answers directly from primary diplomatic and legal records—such as UN treaties, ratification records, roll-call votes, declassified cables, and ICJ case law. Every claim features an open-source footnote.

Key Features

  • Country Profiles: Includes data for 193 countries detailing foreign policy, voting history, and bloc dynamics.
  • MUN Tools: Features a speakers list, GSL (General Speakers List) timer, placards, voting calculator, and resolution formatter.
  • Writing Assistance: Turns research outputs into structured position papers, memos, speeches, and essays with attached footnotes.
  • Educational Content: Offers mini-courses and tutorials for beginners and experienced delegates alike.

Source: modeldiplomat.com.

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A list of tech platforms for productivity purposes, as alternatives to larger platforms.

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Full integration, editable calendar with two-way synchronisation – more complicated than it could be: https://frightanic.com/apple-mac/thunderbird-icloud-calendar-sync/:

  1. Create an app-specific password for Thunderbird in Apple Account
  2. Go to iCloud online Calendar to get your user-ID, server number, and calendar ID
  3. Open new calendar in Thunderbird, choose “On the Network”
  4. Add iCloud-user as username
  5. Add calendar URL: https://<server-number>-caldav.icloud.com/<user-id>/calendars/<calendar-id>/
  6. Provide app-specific password
  7. Finish.

For the sync of contacts, the URL is: https://<serverID>-contacts.icloud.com/<user>/carddavhome/card/. See: https://support.mozilla.org/bm/questions/1384897.

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A Code of Conduct for (Open Source) Communities. According to Wikipedia, the Contributor Covenant is used in prominent projects including Linux, Ruby on Rails, Swift, Go, and JRuby. Relevant signers include Google, Apple, Microsoft, Intel, Eclipse and GitLab.

In 2016 GitHub added a feature to streamline the addition of the Contributor Covenant to an open source project and the Ruby library manager Bundler also has an option to add the Contributor Covenant to software programs that its users create: https://www.contributor-covenant.org.

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Create and share meeting polls. With a meeting poll, an appointment can be made with several people. With a booking list, predefined appointments can be booked by other people: https://terminplaner6.dfn.de/.

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Justin Welsh is an experienced internet entrepreneur, meanwhile offering boutique advisory services for other entrepreneurs. He compiled a list of tools he uses himselves:

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The magazine computerwoche.de published a list of handy Open Source Intelligence Tools, incl.:

  • Maltego – comprehensive tool for graphical link analyses that offers real-time data mining and information gathering, as well as the representation of this information on a node-based graph, making patterns and multiple order connections between said information easily identifiable
  • Recon-ng – gathering tool aimed at reducing the time spent harvesting information from open sources
  • theHarvester – emails, subdomains and names Harvester
  • Shodan – world’s first search engine for Internet-connected devices
  • Metagoofil – metadata harvester
  • searchcode – search 75 billion lines of code from 40 million projects
  • SpiderFoot – automates OSINT so one can find what matters, faster
  • Babel X – discover and decipher geographically diverse, multilingual data into actionable insights in real time, babel street’s platform helps interpret real-time data, so one can make clear, decisive decisions that impact any mission
  • Mitaka – browser extension for OSINT search
  • BuiltWith – search tech stack of specific websites
  • Wappalyzer – find the technology stack of any website
  • DarkSearch.io – self-declared “first real” “dark web” “search engine” (yet, no longer publicly available)
  • Grep.app – tool for searches across git repos

The list seems compiled from pcwdld.com, where more detailed descriptions of each tool can be found.

Furthermore, the OSINT Framework helps gathering information from free tools or resources by providing a very good overview of available applications, platforms, methods etc.

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