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The latest World University Rankings is out: how are Indonesia Universities doing?

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The Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2016-2017 has been published this week. The rankings have been produced for 12 years and list the top 980 universities in the world. The rankings are produced looking at 13 performance indicators grouped in are grouped into five areas: – Teaching (the learning environment) – Research (volume, […]

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What does data innovation mean for traditional social science research?

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Pulse Lab Jakarta posted today on Medium a blog I have written with Andrew Thornley about the implication for social science research of data innovation. Hope you enjoy reading it. Data innovation and data analytics offer an unprecedented opportunity for expanding the sources of evidence that can inform policy-making. But is data innovation threatening traditional

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Policy makers meet policy researchers in Jakarta

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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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Policy researchers have to be out there

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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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A new era for development – the future or already reality?

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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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Searching for Indonesia’s Amartya Sen

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Together with my colleagues Zack Petersen we have written down some thoughts about  researchers and the future of research and development in Indonesia. Our article has been published by the Jakarta Globe last week: Commentary: Searching for Indonesia’s Amartya Sen \’Indonesia’s ability to compete at a global level when it comes to research and development depends on

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Workshops are a good way to manage the demand and use of evidence in policy making institutions

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In 2009, the UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) embarked on a nine-month strategy to improve the way it sourced, handled and used evidence to make policy. It had seen how another government department, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), had developed a strategic approach to managing its evidence base and decided to

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