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- 13th Mar 2024
Growth Vouchers: Introducing Randomised Control Trials to Government Policy
The Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE recently published the results of a randomised control trial to evaluate the impact of business Growth Vouchers. BIT was involved in the design of this trial from the very beginning and here we reflect on the importance of RCTs, why this one…
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- 12th Mar 2024
Improving government communications with behavioral insights
Governments across the U.S. are responsive to residents' needs every day. But what happens when a state can be proactive, and focus on an initiative to support people long term?
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- 25th Jan 2024
ChatGOV: Will people trust AI tools to help them use public services?
At BIT, we’re excited about AI’s potential to improve how citizens interact with public services - from providing tailored advice, to streamlining application processes.
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Trisha Harjani
Trisha is an Associate Research Advisor in the Education, Social Cohesion, and Home Affairs team where she supports the team in the design, implementation and evaluation of trials. Before her role at BIT, Trisha worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Cambridge and the Hong Kong University of…
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- 21st Dec 2023
Improving handwashing in Rohingya settlements in Cox’s Bazar
With the generous support of Reckitt Global Hygiene Institute (RGHI), BIT collaborated with the BRAC Social Innovation Lab (SIL) to encourage usage of HWSs among the Rohingya nationals in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh through developing BI-informed communication interventions that addressed behavioural barriers faced by the community.
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- 23rd Nov 2023
Breaking the cycle of silence: Using behavioural insights to tackle gender-based violence in Indonesia
One in three women in Indonesia have experienced violence by an intimate male partner during their lifetime. To promote gender justice in Indonesia, we worked with independent researchers affiliated with UNDP Indonesia who conducted immersion research with GBV survivors.
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- 23rd Nov 2023
Menggunakan wawasan perilaku untuk mengatasi kekerasan berbasis gender di Indonesia
Wawasan perilaku (behavioural insights) memiliki peran yang penting dalam mengatasi kekerasan berbasis gender (KBG). BIT telah mengerjakan berbagai proyek yang bertujuan untuk mengatasi KBG di berbagai negara. Kami telah merancang kampanye untuk mendorong para penyintas KBG untuk mencari bantuan di Honduras dan El Salvador, mendesain pesan untuk mendorong para bystander…
- Blog
- 2nd Nov 2023
AI & BI : Building Trustworthy Tools - Testing AI chatbots in Public Service
We need powerful and safe frontier AI models. But we also need an interface that people trust and want to use. That’s why we’re running an experiment to understand how people might interact with AI in public services.
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- 19th Oct 2023
Encourager la participation des femmes au dépistage du cancer du sein
Sur la période 2021-2022, en France, moins de 50% des femmes éligibles au programme de dépistage organisé du cancer du sein y ont participé. À titre de comparaison, elles étaient 65% au Royaume-Uni.
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- 18th Oct 2023
Groundbreaking research on WhatsApp chatbot to reduce intimate partner violence published in PLOS
Patterns of violence can start at an impressionable age, when teenagers and women start their first serious relationships and learn what is “normal”—or even desirable—in a partner. There is a strong connection between positive power equity beliefs and lower IPV prevalence.