Decolonising research capacity development
The capacity to produce and use knowledge remains low across many countries in the Global South. However, efforts to build, strengthen or develop research capacity have produced mixed results. We...
View ArticleTips to get started with ChatGPT in your think tank
AI technology will revolutionise how we work. We can’t fight it, so let’s learn how to use it to help us! Based on the last few weeks I’ve spent experimenting with it, I think the potential for this...
View ArticleHow to use ChatGPT to improve your think tank communications
ChatGPT – the AI-powered writing assistant – can help make your communications more effective, and, importantly save you time. At first, I wondered if ChatGPT was going to do me out of a job. But then...
View ArticleCurating your research: making connections to communicate effectively
A few days ago, I walked into a second-hand bookshop and left without buying anything. It was a cramped little store and was filled with books. I did a few circles around the displays… classics, crime,...
View ArticleNon-profit finance mind shift: from cost recovery to mission delivery
OTT is evolving as an organisation. We started over a decade ago as a personal blog. With funding from the Hewlett Foundation, we grew into an initiative. And today, we are a global consultancy and...
View ArticleBringing science to citizens at the Lima International Book Fair
The Lima International Book Fair (FIL) has established itself as the most relevant publishing industry space in Peru. And, for the Editorial Fund of the Universidad del Pacífico, it’s when the greatest...
View ArticleExploring diversity, equity, and inclusion in think tanks
OTT Talks to Grant Dalton, researcher at the Institute for Government, a leading British think tank, about the findings of a diversity and inclusion sector report he co-authored and published last year.
View ArticleCan think tanks help cure Sri Lanka’s ailing democracy?
10.00 am, Colombo, Sri Lanka. I’m on a bus 5,000 miles away from London, reading about Cast From Clay’s study on democracy in the UK. They warn of an ‘irrevocably fragmented’ information environment....
View ArticlePractical tools to support evidence use in policy-making
I’ve been working on evidence use for the last seven years, or so. I started out in the VakaYiko Consortium, under the Building Capacity to Use Research Evidence initiative. This was funded by the UK’s...
View ArticleFive most-discussed topics at the School for Thinktankers 2023
The School for Thinktankers recently concluded its eighth School. As in every other School, I came out feeling energised and with a wealth of ideas for moving forward and engaging with an exceptional...
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