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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
Too many goals in Norwegian aid
Eirik Mofoss is clear about what he would prioritise in the aid budget if he were allowed to decide. Norad responds.
“Already, AI is a threat to the newspapers' business model
Researchers Tellef Solbakk Raabe and Aksel Braanen Sterri are interviewed about how they believe that today's newspaper subscribers will increasingly use KI assistants to read or hear news.
AI is the new electricity
Special Advisor Silvija Seres discusses artificial intelligence with Torbjørn Røe Isaksen.
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.