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The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace is a public policy research center devoted to the advanced study of economics, politics, history, and political economy—both domestic and foreign—as well as...
Capita is a global think tank, a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that explores how the great cultural and social transformations of our day affect our youngest children (0-8 years old). We seek to tackle the...
The Cato Institute is a public policy research organization—a think tank—dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace. Its scholars and analysts conduct...
Join us at the School for Thinktankers 2023! After two years online, we’re happy to return to an in-person one-week programme in Brussels. The School is designed to develop your think tank skills and prepare...
The Basel Institute on Governance is an international and independent not-for-profit organisation working worldwide with the public and private sector to counter corruption and other...
Introduction Throughout the various interactions I had with ChatGPT for this first effort to experiment with ChatGPT, I kept wondering about the technology's ability to understand my...
Introduction We have been involved in a year long study of knowledge translation (KT) in the Global South in collaboration with IDS and funded by IDRC. The study has involved multiple...
Like millions around the world, I spent the holiday period playing with ChatGPT . It is a large generative pretrained transformer (GPT) language model developed by...
I asked ChatGPT to develop the outline of a course on evidence-informed policy. Designing and delivering courses is something we at OTT are asked to do quite often. Often the first step is to...
The OTT Conference 2023 will focus on think tanks and political uncertainty. As we develop the programme we have beed discussing what specific issues could be included. Could ChatGPT...
I asked ChatGPT about its own influence on think tanks. My exact instructions were: Write an article for On Think Tanks. Make it a blog style. Consider: 1) How will technologies like...
Introduction The field of evidence informed policy has been rapidly changing. Over the last decade it has become a favourite of international development funders. The...