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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
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.
Artificial intelligence triggers giant investments in data centers
Data centres worth hundreds of billions are being built at record speed, even as the power grid is at risk of collapsing under its weight. Langsikts AI advisor Anders Eidesvik is familiar with Dagsavisen on the energy needs of artificial intelligence.
NRK Nyhetsmorgen interviews Langsikts AI advisor about Meta's AI update
Langsikt's AI advisor Anders Eidesvik is interviewed by NRK about the new update that allows Meta to share users' private messages with its I model.
Now private messages are shared in Messenger with KI
Langsikt's AI advisor Anders Eidesvik is interviewed by NRK about the new update that allows Meta to share users' private messages with its AI model.
Meta uses private messages to train AI models
Langsikt's advisor at KI, Anders Eidesvik, talked to Klassekampen about how Meta is starting to feed its AI models with users' private messages.