Life after leading a think tank: how funders can support the transition
Founding and leading a think tank is a demanding and often thankless job. It requires a unique blend of skills: strategic vision, fundraising, management, and...
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Founding and leading a think tank is a demanding and often thankless job. It requires a unique blend of skills: strategic vision, fundraising, management, and...
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...
OTT's work with think tanks often involves supporting new think tanks to develop their strategic plans and existing organisations to refresh their strategies. I decided to test ChatGPT...
I noticed a pattern among the end-of-year reflections of my peers: 2022 was bittersweet. It was a great year professionally for many, including OTT (see the end of the...
Most think tanks are concerned about their finances. But they also have a more nuanced set of concerns, making growth predictions difficult. OTT Founder and Director...