Kenneth Benoit and Kenneth Cukier during a public lecture at the London School of Economics in February 2015 have mentioned that ‘the ubiquity of big data has the potential to transform the way we approach social science.’ In other words, the data revolution is challenging the social scientific model and how it informs policies and […]
Great resource on various aspects of communication for sharing knowledge as well as informing policy making published by the Mental Health Innovation Network (MHIN). The toolkit, Global Mental Health Communications Toolkit, starts with a description of the guiding principles of packaging key messages so that they can be tailored to different audiences. Remember: Know your stakeholders and get your messages to stick! The toolkits then describes in a
The Nulistik Forum has been established about a year ago and is moderated by the Tempo institute in Jakarta. Every two months the members of the Forum (policy researchers, representatives from media, the private sector and government) come together to discuss discussion issues related to journalism, policy research, and policy making. The aim of the Forum if for these discussions to contribute to strengthen the skills of journalists
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The Knowledge Sector Initiative in Indonesia we have started a Knowledge Sector Interview series. Through this series the Knowledge Sector Initiative is meeting policy makers, policy researchers, intellectuals, and development practitioners to ask them about their perspectives and personal experiences with knowledge-to-policy processes and evidence-informed policy-making in Indonesia. Interviews will be published monthly. The first interview with
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Thank you to Jim Della-Giacoma for tweeting the link to the blog I wrote last week, think tanks underinvest in management, and for putting the question as to whether think tanks and management is an oxymoron. Are the words think tank and management contradicting each other when put side by side in the same sentence? Borrowing an Italian metaphor, we could ask whether the research done in think
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I met with Raymond Struyk at the KSI office some time ago to discuss about think tank and management. I have written a blog about our conversation and linked to a video now available at the KSI website. \’It’s not often that you get one of the foremost experts on think tanks like Raymond Struyk
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I did some more work on the blog I have written the other day. You can find the text published in two blog sites: The DDD Manifesto Community blog (here). Building State Capability blog at Harvard University (here) Here the first paragraph,: \’Michael Woolcock, the Lead Social Development Specialist at the World Bank, gave the keynote speech at the
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Michael Woolcock, the Lead Social Development Specialist at the World Bank, visited the Knowledge Sector Initiative (KSI) office in Jakarta on August 18, 2015. He is one of the leading voices in the debate around new ways for approaching development problems and designing development interventions that are more flexible and context specific. With Lant Pritchett of CGD, Matt Andrews of Harvard, David Booth of ODI
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