Program Objectives

• Develop strategies that will improve the performance and effectiveness of think tanks in the creation, dissemination and utilization of policy-relevant proposals and will engage policy makers and civil society representatives in the policy making process.
• Create a virtual global think tank that will foster collaboration, information sharing and the transfer of innovative policies and proposals from one institution or policy community to another.
• Promote a constructive dialogue and collaborative research and analysis on policy issues through the creation of global issue networks that build on existing local and regional networks wherever possible.
• Identify, test and disseminate strategies and technologies that will facilitate collaborative research and information sharing among public policy research organizations and other policy and knowledge based institutions around the world.
• Promote an on-going interdisciplinary global dialogue among think tanks, policy makers and civil society representatives that will explore the critical role think tanks play in civil societies and how these institutions can be sustained over time.
• Collect data and conduct research on think tanks and policy communities around the world and then disseminate the findings as widely as possible.Develop and implement strategies that will increase the capacity of think tanks in developing and transitional countries such as the access to and utilization of the internet, resource development and institutional management so that they can participate as equal partners in this global initiative.