PENANG Institute has been named as one of the seven influential think tanks affecting public policy.
It was mentioned in Wiki.ezvid.com, a free-to-use video wiki published by the California technology company Ezvid Inc.
The institute was listed together with six other international organisations – Libertas Institute; E3G; Paulson Institute; Migration Policy Group; Per Capita; and Roosevelt Institute.
Read the article here: https://wiki.ezvid.com/v/7-influential-think-tanks-affecting-public-policy-1f4002e0
Penang Institute is one of Malaysia’s major think tanks which is funded by the Penang government.
It was set up in 1997 as the Socio-economic and Environmental Research Institute before it undergone a name change in 2011 as part of a rebranding exercise.
The Penang Institute aims to contribute towards making public policy-making in Penang and in Malaysia as informed and collaborative as possible; to provide platforms for intellectual and professional exchanges on critical, current and strategic issues affecting Penang and its surrounding region; to promote interest in Penang’s cultural activities, and specifically in literary pursuits; and to aid academic research in general through the maintenance of a resource centre.
With the reshuffling of the state executive council (exco) portfolios from Sept 15 this year, Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow had announced that the role of Penang Institute in policy-making and implementation would be intensified, through the involvement of its staff in the exco offices at the early stage of policy-making.
Chow said that a policy discussion platform based on Penang Institute’s involvement would be set up as soon as possible at the institute.
“It will involve various experts and players from the public sector, private sector, the academic world, non-governmental organisations and other think tanks,” he said recently.
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Story by Christopher Tan
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