Paul Wang and Krishanu Chakraborty from IDinsight (video)
Paul Wang and Krishanu Chakraborty from IDinsight talked to Andrea Baertl about the challenges for data collection during the COVID-19 pandemic, what can be done to...
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Training programme on scaling impact for IDRC
Project brief In partnership with IDRC, OTT is designing, developing and delivering a scaling impact training for IDRC’s programme officers using the Scaling Playbook and drawing from...
School for Thinktankers 2021: a summary
The School for Thinktankers is designed to prepare and inspire the next generation of think tank leaders, build a community of thinktankers, and encourage participants to reflect on their...
Report review: Research and advice in foreign and security policy – an analysis of the German think tank space
Robert Bosch Stiftung and Stiftung Mercator launched Research and Advice in Foreign and Security Policy: An analysis of the German Think Tank Space, authored by Christoph...
The first think tank state of the sector report
The Open Think Tank Directory was born to overcome the lack of centralised and publicly available information about think tanks and other policy research organisations. But it serves other...
2019 Think Tank State of the Sector
The first think tank state of the sector report, based on analysis of 2019 data of 2,802 active think tanks from the Open Think Tank Directory, provides an overview of the sector and uncovers...
Think tank ecosystems: characteristics, functions, and implications
Presenters: Silvia Menegazzi, PhD (Adjunct Professor International Relations, LUISS Guido Carli University), Dr. Bert Fraussen and Dr. Valérie Pattyn (Faculty of...
Think tank credibility: an annotated reading list
Credibility is crucial for a think tank. To be able to effectively inform policy and practice they need to be and be seen as credible sources of information and advice. In the current...
OTT Conference 2020, the 2nd online event: a report
The OTT Conference 2020: the online events were a response to the need to postpone our 2020 conference in Berlin. In June we hosted the second online event and were joined...
Exploración de la relación entre think tanks y movimientos sociales
Antes de la pandemia que el COVID-19 desató, los expertos no eran bien vistos (al menos en el norte global), y eran percibidos como lejanos y encerrados en sus torres...
Activists and policy experts: Exploring think tank engagement with social movements
Abstract Collaborations between think tanks and social movements appear to be a positive partnership, as think tanks get to understand and engage with the lived...
Understanding think tank–social movement engagement
Before COVID-19, experts were loathed (at least in the global North), perceived to be in their ivory towers detached from the public. While experts may have remerged as...