3, 2,1, go… Brilliant blog by Duncan Green about the importance of blogging for academics and researchers as well as about how to get into the habit of blogging regularly: An antidote to futility: Why academics (and students) should take blogging / social media seriously It was interesting to read that it takes him just 30 minutes […]
It takes only 30 minutes to write a blog. Why am I struggling so much? Read More »
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here\’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,700 times in 2015. If it were a cable car, it would take about 45 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the
I just wanted to thank you all for following this blog. I continue to work in Indonesia at the Knowledge Sector Initiative. I continue also to be the the ODI RAPID team member based full time in Jakarta. The highlight of the year for me has been the online course on PDIA set up by the team of the Building
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Last week I published a blog on Research2Action where I discuss whether a Knowledge-to-Policy framework to better inform policies actually exists. \’Knowledge to policy (K2P) is a popular term to describe the way research and other types of knowledge inform policy-making. K2P processes and systems aim to support decision-makers to create good policies that make
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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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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
A new era for development – the future or already reality? Read More »