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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
Senior Adviser Tellef Raabe on the NRK show the Debate on Media Economics
Non-established media meet established editors to debate. Tellef Raabe participates as a subject matter expert on the media.
The Ten Commandments of AI are just the beginning
In order for them not to end up in the drawer, we have to take charge now. Before technology does. This is written by Director of Artificial Intelligence in Sopra Steria in Caspar M. Lund in Digi.
Langsikt and TRY with campaign to ensure that effective aid is prioritised in this year's state budget
Kom24 has made a case about Langsikt's aid campaign, where emergency rations are distributed to politicians to remind them of the world's poorest in the autumn negotiations. Read more about the campaign at lang.no/100dagar.
Leading AI scientist: - We're playing with fire
The “Godfather of KI” opened Norway's new Centre for Artificial Intelligence (KI) on Monday - and took the opportunity to warn of the dangers of the technology. TV2 has written a story about Bengio's visit to Oslo, which Langplanned.
MDG moves funds out of aid budget: “We will clean it up
The MDG will shift funds from Ukraine aid and climate to help the world's poorest. The party, together with Long Term, has counted on the figures in the government's aid budget.
The most important skill of the future: being human
My sons will grow up in an era where machines can do anything except be human. This is what Isabelle Ringnes writes in NRK. She builds on commandment ten in “The Ten Ki-commandments”, for which she was additionally responsible as a committee member of Langsikt's expert committee at KI.
-The consulting industry faces a paradox when KI takes over work tasks from graduates
Aksel Braanen Sterri, Head of Department at Lang, is interviewed by DN about how KI can influence future working life.
The world's most renowned KI professor is afraid of AI. - But now I think I have a solution.
Yoshua Bengio is not only the world's most cited scientist. Now he also believes to have figured out how to rein in the unstoppable KI technology. Report in Aftenposten after Bengio's visit to Oslo, which Langsikt planned.
Blood-poor AI-commandments
Herman Sjøberg, CEO of Ayfie, criticizes the “Ten AI Commandments” in DN, and believes the bids are a politically correct minimum common multiple.
When the world's leading KI expert is deeply concerned, we should be too.
Commentator in DN, Terje Erikstad, writes about Bengio's visit to Oslo and his concern about AI's development. Langsik was the coordinator of the visit.