On technology and monotony: automating tasks to save time, money…and your sanity
At Soapbox, we pride ourselves on driving communications forward in the think tank sector. In recent years that has meant a lot of focus on digital communications –...
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Think tanks versus robots: how technology is likely to disrupt think tanks
‘Tech’ and its close cousin ‘innovation’ have entered buzzword territory. Debate rumbles on about whether we are headed for utopia or dystopia at the hands of...
The 4th Industrial Revolution and new frontiers: why think tanks should be prepared
A couple of years back, when our research organisation in the global South started to think about the impacts of digital revolution, the topic was hardly getting any air...
Communicating authoritative information in a post-truth environment
The German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) teams up with WonkComms and Soapbox Design Agency to bring to you a WebTalk Series on Digital Thinktanking in Times of COVID-19 every Thursday,...
Embodied artificial intelligence: a new frontier for technology and policy action
Today’s remarkable advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are powered in many ways by the billions of images uploaded to the Internet each day. This rich corpus of...
The questions technology poses think tanks
It is easy to paint a dystopian picture of fast-approaching ‘technological singularity’ – the point at which artificial intelligence becomes cleverer than us, and probably decides...
OTT Annual Reviews
OTT Annual Review 2019-2020: think tanks and technology The OTT Annual Review 2019-2020 is a compilation of articles written by over 20 authors, both from within the OTT team and from external collaborators. In this...
On think tanks and technology
We’ve invited authors from across different disciplines, sectors and roles to offer insights into the opportunities and challenges that new technologies present to think tanks. As ever,...
The increasing incidence of working remotely: implications for think tanks
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, various observers of the development of business staff practices are considering the possible lasting effects of the massive shift in the...
Virtual policy events and online meetings
The German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) teams up with WonkComms and Soapbox Design Agency to bring to you a WebTalk Series on Digital Thinktanking in Times of COVID-19 every Thursday, starting April 23,...
More on our COVID-19 initiative
Our response to the COVID-19 crisis is based on our four core pillars of work: generating knowledge, learning, convening, and sharing content and resources. In the short-term, we are starting to convene spaces to...
Responding to a pandemic: acting fast, being transparent, and moving online
The fourth annual OTT Conference was meant to be held in Berlin from 30 March to 1 April 2020. At the end of February we consulted with our advisory board and conference...