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Have we reached “peak aid”?
The United States and several European countries are turning their backs on the world. Is this the beginning of the end for aid as we know it?
Three AI advancements to look out for in 2025
War, film and work are among the areas that will be characterized by KI in 2025.
Deepseek should be a wake-up call. It's time for Norway to develop its own AI.
Artificial intelligence is too important to be left to oligarchs and party dictatorships.
Aftenposten prevents an enlightened aid debate
Shutting down aid is as knowledgable as shutting down health care.
We are not prepared for the most severe threats
The white paper on total preparedness national security, but we do not know what dangers threaten us or what to do about them.
More knowledge-based aid. What's the next step?
Tighter budgets and new crises make it even more important to have knowledge-based and cost-effective aid. Norway is already doing a lot to make this happen, but we have more to go on. A working group has presented a report with new recommendations.
Improving the efficiency of Norwegian aid through the UN and the World Bank
In 2023, 31.7 billion Norwegian kroner (54% of Norway's aid budget) was allocated through multilateral organizations, with the UN system and the World Bank Group being the two main recipients. This note presents recommendations to the government, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Norad on how the foreign service can become a more effective and coordinated donor to Norway's largest partners. We focus on the UN system and the World Bank in this first note of the series.
An invisible environmental poison costs millions of lives
Lead in food and paint causes health damage to millions of children every year. Poor countries in particular have a long way to go.
Salmon suffering is Norway's darkest secret
... and the government does nothing. Here are four steps that can help with Norway's biggest animal welfare disaster.
Media coverage
Aksel Braanen Sterri on the long-term challenges
What are the biggest challenges facing Norway? And what are the solutions? Aksel Sterri, head of trade in Long Term, made a guest appearance on Civita's podcast Liberal Half-Hour.
Eirik Mofoss på podkast om Norfunds Klimainvesteringsfond
– Norge bør overføre 10–15 milliarder kroner til Klimainvesteringsfondet i året og slutte å ta pengene fra bistandsbudsjettet, sier daglig leder i tankesmien Langsikt Eirik Mofoss. Han gjester podkasten til Energi og Klima.
- We have to take the hard priorities
Eirik Mofoss is interviewed after Langhas sent an open letter to the new NORAD director. Among other things, the memo calls for fewer partners, lower administrative costs and more money for the poorest countries.
Aksel Braanen Sterri på NRK Helgemorgen for å diskutere Oljefondet og fremtidige generasjoner
Er det gitt at det beste vi kan gjøre for fremtidige generasjoner gjennom Oljefondet er å sikre dem en stor finansiell formue?
Partnerships are about more than money distribution
The Secretary General of ADRA responds to Longsight's chronicle of increased support for local partners, pointing out that partnerships are about more than money distribution.
Education funds seen from the side of teachers
The proposal to cut support for education funds in the Long-Term memo “Time for reprioritisation” has been criticised in a post in Panorama News.
Aker deserves applause for its bet on artificial intelligence, not destructive criticism.
Correspondence chronicle to Aksel Sterri's chronicle in DN about Stargate Norway.
Aksel Braanen Sterri about the AI revolution on the podcast Stop the World
We are in the midst of a technological revolution. Is it salvation or a curse? Aksel discusses with Torbjørn Røe Isaksen.
Summer's big think-tank duel
Cindy Robles on a podcast about development policy alongside Agenda and Civita.
Calling political theater naive
Academic Director Aksel Sterri is interviewed in Klassekampen about why he thinks political art often appears naive and uninformed.