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New and persistent forms of political uncertainty are impacting think tanks globally. 51% of organisations in our latest sector survey named political uncertainty as a key challenge, citing...
Join us at the School for Thinktankers 2023! After two years online, we’re happy to return to an in-person one-week programme in Brussels. The School is designed to develop your think tank skills and prepare...
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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...
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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...
The expanding population of think tanks in the United States contains a new, more politically committed, group. This comparatively young group is less driven by the goal of basing public...
New and young think tanks play an important role in devising innovative and evidence-informed solutions to the complex challenges facing the world today. But, as young and emerging organisations, there is a lot to...
Anywhere in the world, knowledge translation (KT) is facilitated through a process of communicating messages to an audience, who will ultimately use that information to...
As a growing multi-disciplinary field, evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) needs to draw out its unique qualities, irrespective of the perspectives from which they...
Words have meaning beyond their definitions The public sphere today is terminally fragmented. Gone are the days when the debate focused on what to do based on the facts...