Those initiatives include exchange programs with US Muslim groups, soccer teams and youth TV and radio networks.
Of course it will sting if some foreign leaders hesitate for a time before exchanging confidences with US officials.
One expert said: "It will lead to a behavioural change as people who go to Belize know that Belize is exchanging information with us.
British students will take part in Erasmus programmes, just as the original Erasmus exchanged ideas with us and did not first need the EU to make it happen.
The first of those incidents, in January 2011, involved a group of insurgents in Helmand province, Afghanistan, who were exchanging gunfire with US troops on the ground and were duly eviscerated.
To practice yoga and meditation in its authentic form and in the spirit of aloha means that we pay attention to our breath and to its exchange with those around us.
Mr Rouhani has also exchanged "positive" letters with US President Barack Obama, and told the US broadcaster NBC that Iran wants to engage with the world and not develop nuclear weapons.
David Brooks Gaill, recently we had a Chinese exchange student staying with us.
My four children and the exchange student living with us swam in the pool, took their in-line skates around the property and passed their evenings playing air hockey and Ping-Pong with other children in three large game rooms.
(Years ago we had an Italian exchange student stay with us; the first time she was asked at a restaurant what kind of salad dressing she wanted, she was flabbergasted. "Oil, vinegar? How many kinds can there be?").
Then, beneath those guys, there's a chaotic sea of smaller startups promising some cheap thrill in exchange for us opting in with our data — so they have a chance to grow as powerful as the platforms they cling to.
