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Record W3094889427 · doi:10.1080/02255189.2020.1820313

Reflections from the Think Tank Initiative and their relevance for Canada

2020· article· en· W3094889427 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
A. Hurst

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d études du développement · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicCommunity Development and Social Impact
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCivil societyPolitical scienceDevelopment studiesLatin AmericansRelevance (law)International developmentSouth asiaPublic administrationThink tanksEconomic growthSociologyPolitics

Abstract

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From 2009–2019, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) managed the Think Tank Initiative (TTI) as a contribution to strengthening applied research systems in Latin America, East and West Africa and South Asia. TTI’s experience supporting these organisations yielded interesting insights into how collaborations between researchers and civil society organisations can be made more effective. If we wish to see greater benefits from researcher-civil society collaborations in Canada in support of international development policy and programming, it might be time again to reflect on how to address the gap created after the closure of the North–South Institute.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.101
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.172
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.695
Threshold uncertainty score0.806

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.1010.172
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.002
Bibliometrics0.0040.008
Science and technology studies0.0620.048
Scholarly communication0.0460.013
Open science0.0080.019
Research integrity0.0230.058
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0140.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.192
GPT teacher head0.266
Teacher spread0.074 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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