{"id":768,"date":"2015-01-05T18:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/?p=768"},"modified":"2015-12-05T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T15:19:00","slug":"2015-looking-into-a-new-year-for-on-think-tanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/articles\/2015-looking-into-a-new-year-for-on-think-tanks\/","title":{"rendered":"2015: looking into a new year for On Think Tanks"},"content":{"rendered":"

2015 will usher a series of change in On Think Tanks designed to strengthen the initiative, improve and increase its content, and reach more and new audiences.<\/p>\n

I will be writing more about this as our plans develop but, in the mean time, here are some updates:<\/p>\n

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  1. The On Think Tanks\u2019 family of contributors and partners will grow to reflect the manner in which people all over the world have supported this effort. While some people equate On Think Tanks with me, Enrique Mendizabal, the fact is that it would be impossible to do this alone.<\/li>\n
  2. On Think Tanks\u2019 digital architecture and toolkit will improve over the year to be much more user and initiative friendly. We want to make sure that the services we offer think tanks, thinktankers, and their supporters meet their needs.<\/li>\n
  3. There will be more in-depth analysis of key issues such as business models, domestic philanthropy, the effect of context on think tanks, etc. Similarly, we will pay greater attention to regional and country specific think tank \u2018traditions\u2019. \u00a0These latter ones will be accompanied by planned visits and think tank events in at least three regions (Latin America, Africa and Asia).<\/li>\n
  4. New services will be launched too. We are working on a few to make the life of think tanks much easier.<\/li>\n
  5. We will revisit existing initiatives such as the\u00a0data visualisation competition<\/a>,\u00a0the\u00a0national think tank awards<\/a>, and, possibly, a new phase of the\u00a0On Think Tanks Exchange<\/a>\u00a0and launch new ones such as a school of think tanks to be announced soon.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    On Think Tanks will benefit from the support of the\u00a0Hewlett Foundation<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Universidad del Pac\u00edfico<\/a>\u00a0in Per\u00fa.<\/p>\n

    By the end of the year, too, we will produce an annual report (of sorts) informed by our contributors and readers. We will turn this blog into a full-on portal on (and about) think tanks.<\/p>\n

    If you want to learn more about this, please do get in touch. You can support us in many different ways. Funds are always useful but not the most important nor the only form of support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A new year for On Think Tanks. 2015 will provide many opportunities to grow and support think tanks and their supporters in many other ways. Please get in touch and help us out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","article-types-opinion","people-enrique-mendizabal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}