The Theory of Knowing in the age of AI
By Bonnie Chiu, Managing Director, The Social Investment Consultancy We received a lot of positive feedback about our theory of knowledge in the age of AI, and a year on, we are publishing a sequel to it. As we embed more AI into our work, we realise that AI is not just changing what we […]
Why Do We Evaluate? Between Technique, Dialogue and Tenderness
By Claudia Why do we evaluate? It’s a simple question, and yet an uncomfortable one. The answer often depends on who you ask: for some, it’s about accountability; for others, it’s about demonstrating impact, learning, improving, or making decisions… And sometimes, evaluation ends up being all those things at once, and in the process, it […]
Stepping into antifragility – our hopes for the impact sector
By Bonnie Chiu This is the fourth blog in our integration series. Read the previous third instalment here. “Antifragility goes beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better. An adaptive system is one that is robust under volatile environments/conditions, and an antifragile system is one that is […]
A break up? Or falling back in love? Rethinking our relationship with evaluation reports
Emma Roberts and Yu-Shan Chiu Introduction Here at TSIC we are committed to having more impact for our clients. Between us, we have delivered hundreds of evaluations and we’ve seen how the impact of evaluation can vary. Some are truly inspiring, while others fall flat. This has prompted us to consider how we can ensure […]
Mobilising diaspora finance for impact investing
There are estimated 286 million people living in a country other than their countries of birth in 2022[1]. This number is over three times the equivalent estimate in 1970 – when decolonisation of Africa was nearing its end, and saw a wave of migration from former colonies to the hearts of the colonial empires – […]