By
Dhananath Fernando
The Advocata Institute was conceptualised in 2016, with a single goal in mind. We wanted to create a lawful Sri Lanka, where anyone may succeed through hard work and free...
OTT Talks to Dr. Abraham Ibn Zackaria, Deputy Director of Research in the Parliament of Ghana, shedding light on how evidence is used in Ghanaian policymaking.
By
Enrique Mendizabal
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...
By
Andrea Baertl
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...
By
Emily Hayter
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...
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Stephanie Nicolle
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...
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...
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Maria Elena Romero
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...
By
Fiorella Bianchi
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...
By
Natallia Nenarokamava
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...
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Louise Ball
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...
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Louise Ball
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...