Transparency and Funding of Think Tanks in France
¿How transparent are French think tanks in regards to their funding? In this post, Transparify presents a compilation of publications on think tank funding, think tank transparency, and a...
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Towards a global agenda on think tank transparency
Calling think tanks to join a new initiative to promote think tank transparency around the world: After hard deliberation a group of think tank leaders and thinkers have developed a call to...
Addressing think tank transparency: one of the elephants in the room
Think tank transparency is an issue that is here to stay. A group of funders and think tanks got together at the Think Tank Initiative's Global Exchange in Istanbul to...
Transparency of pro-transparency advocates 2015
In 2015 Transparify published a report on the transparency of organisations advocating for greater transparency: A report on how transparent pro-transparency advocates are, on the occasion of #IODC 2015 ...
Transparency for think tanks: the latest fashion or an urgent reform?
This post was written by Orazio Bellettini, Executive Director of Grupo FARO in Ecuador. It presents ideas and reflections generated on the panel “From Research to...
Transparify is about to begin rating think tanks transparency credentials
Transparify is about to start rating think tanks transparency. This is your chance to go through your websites and try to make sure that it is easy to find the right...
Is too much transparency a bit of a problem?
Do we really want to know who funds or funded think tanks and researchers? Do we want to know all about how they get their funding, who they've worked with, or for in the past? In this post,...
Think Tanks transparency: a new opportunity thanks to Transparify
On Think Tanks will use the Transparify approach to rate think tanks across the world. I hope this analysis will contribute to greater openness among think tanks as well...
A new think tank model for higher quality, independence and transparency
Lately there has been a rather lively discussion about the role and value of think tanks in the UK. George Monbiot, a journalist who often writes for The Guardian, has...
Think tanks transparency and Twitter accounts
A few weeks ago Goran Buldioski published a post on transparency and I commented on an article by George Monbiot on think tanks' transparency. Monbiot's article sparked some debate on...
Transparency should replace (strive to) impartiality in policy research
We have all heard so many times that policy research is not value free. Some critics go one step further by claiming that impartial analysis is rather a far-fetched ideal...
Center for Global Development: A new transparency policy
David Roodman from the CGD has published a post on CGD’s New Data & Code Transparency Policy. The whole post is worth reading (and if you have time make sure you read...