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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.
AI must be democratic and cheap
Last week, the leading AI company Open AI announced that the premium version of the best Chat GPT model will go from costing $20 to $200 a month. So you have to spend 25,000 Norwegian kroner a year if you want the latest technology from Silicon Valley.
California has declared a state of emergency. The bird flu could become a global pandemic.
We are in a race against the clock.
Hello, power cable opponents. Can any of you show me where I'm wrong?
High electricity prices are a blessing.
Norwegian aid 2025 - what do the different parties think?
We have looked at the parties' alternative aid budget. Here's what we found.
Media coverage
Abel's Tower: Research Breakthrough of the Year
Senior Advisor Sigrid Bratlie at Abels Tårn to summarize research breakthroughs from 2025 and expectations for 2026.
Algorithms and the Christmas table mystery - with senior adviser
Tellef Raabe on the podcast Skravlekassen where he talks about everything from algorithms to the future of the music industry in the face of KI and Lang's Christmas party.
-The input has been received
Senior Adviser Tellef Raabe has called for a Norwegian institution that tests and evaluates KI models on Norwegian terms. Minister of Digitalization Karianne Tung told Finansavisen that the input has been received and she should not write it off.
Warns: Free-ChatGPT denies attacks against Venezuela
While the Pro version answers something completely different. “If you want to read up on news, you should use paid versions,” Tellef Solbakk Raabe, Senior Advisor at Long Term, told Kode24.
Maybe you should get an AI agent to fix everything.
The provocative jingle Aksel Braanen Sterri (38) has become a moral philosopher, KI expert and father. DN Helg has portrayed the chief of staff in Long Term.
Abyrant case: 'Embarrassing' and 'damaging'
Langsikt chief Eirik Mofoss believes the case damages confidence in Norwegian aid, and that the Foreign Ministry should have taken action sooner, in an interview in Panorama Nyheter.
Less and less Norwegian aid goes to poverty reduction measures
At Political Quarter, Jonas Sayed, foreign policy spokesperson at KrF, discusses the Langsikt memo analyzing the aid budget, and how little is poverty-directed.
Norges Bank: These jobs are disappearing because of AI
Nätavisen has interviewed Aksel Braanen Sterri in connection with a report from Norges Bank. He points out that young people in particular are affected in KI-exposed occupations.
Regjeringen presses: - Vil ikke svare
Dagbladet med en tredje oppfølgningsak om Eirik Mofoss sin bistandsanalyse som viser at stadig mindre av bistandsbudsjettet går til tradisjonell bistand.
Senior Advisor Sigrid Bratlie on Stop the World on Wine, Wuhan and the Truth Behind the Pandemic
How are we supposed to operate in the landscape between conspiracies and truth? Sigrid Bratlie discusses with political editor Torbjørn Røe Isaksen.