The world is witnessing a fantastic acceleration of time and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. With all the tectonic plates shifting, we find ourselves caught in a technological progress that challenges the realms of nation-states to its core value systems and the bureaucratic hierarchies inherited from the last century. National boundaries or cultural hemispeheres are permeated like never before and we are just starting to become aware of the implications these multi-layered processes bring into our daily lives. It is high time for governments, private actors and civil society to join hands and reinvent the speed for the creation of new paradigms and a long-term, ideally concerted, human-centric vision at a moment where these technologies are becoming political and carrying strong values and the world is increasingly difficult to forecast. A new generation of diplomats is called upon to transform cyberdiplomacy into a key instrument of the XXI century. Just like in every other field of human interaction, transformational change lies ahead in diplomacy as well, shaped by those who possess the capacity to adapt, to create and to implement a worldwide vision. These “normative soldiers” of the new decade have a difficult task ahead, if one takes into consideration the already existing disruptions and the challenges faced by democratic processes and traditional political institutions. Through the first International Journal of Cyberdiplomacy, a global project en premiere, the Romanian Institute for Research and Development in Informatics – ICI Bucharest brings forward the proposal for a new pact of trust between governements, civil societies and the entrepreneurial ecosystems, one in which you, our contributors and our readers alike become the Demiurges of a new, interconnected World, leading to a more prosperous, safe and fair society of the XXI century.