Are you a Communications Expert? Are you passionate about economic transformation in #Africa . If yes - please consider his very important position African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET). We need a Director of Communications - bit.ly/2P9ghFY

1/ Ready, thready, go: I loved this and it's needed. The humanitarian sector has been squeamish about tech for far too long when - with need worsening every year, and climate hot on COVID's heels - we need the best tools and ideas to tackle humanity's greatest challenges.

It's been another exciting week of #SignsOfProgress — stories of ideas and innovation from around the world that will help shape the future and possibly give us a reason to stay optimistic. Think you missed out? Here's a roundup from my team Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and I:

🇬🇧🇬🇭 Today the UK in Ghana 🇬🇧🇬🇭 Team welcomes Harriet Thompson to #Accra. Harriet joins us as British High Commissioner Designate to Ghana and non-resident Ambassador to Bénin, Burkina Faso and Togo. Akwaaba Harriet! Click the link to find out more 👇 gov.uk/government/peo…

My new Tony Blair Institute for Global Change report is out today on how long-term and genuinely strategic #industrialpolicy should be devised and implemented. institute.global/policy/transfo…

Tony Blair Institute for Global Change we're looking for someone to head up our public services work. If you want to contribute to the debate about post-covid recovery and reform this is a really exciting opportunity! Deadline 26/8 careershub.institute.global/members/module…

Proud day in the Thompson household

#LFC #YNWA

Inspiring words from Kirsty McNeill MP Note to self to buy #PolesApart and find out what #wineandwotsits is

Great thread 👇

J’ai eu un entretien fructueux ce jour avec M. Tony Blair, ancien PM de Grande Bretagne. Nous avons échangé sur la collaboration conviviale et efficace entre le Sénégal et le Tony Blair Institute dans les domaines de la santé, de l’agriculture, des TIC et de l’énergie.

Are you bursting with ideas about how tech can improve lives across the world? Want to come work with an absolute dream team (and me)? This is the job for you. You’ll need the right to work in the UK for this particular job. Any Qs? Any recommendations? Drop me a message

Spent today with some of the inspiring civil society leaders in Ukraine who put together the #KyivDeclaration Awful to see them joining zoom calls in flack jackets and helmets or in shelters. This declaration sets out what they want. Please share it kyivdeclaration.org

Fascinating read 👇

The UK has a stated ambition to become a science superpower, but this will not happen without new organisational models and institutional innovation. Along with the brilliant Convergent Research and The Entrepreneurs Network, we are proposing Focused Research Organisations. 🚀 A short thread

Deal or no deal? Government facing an enormously hard decision on whether to enter long-term gas supply contracts over the coming days/weeks. Oliver Wright suggests that Norwegian supplier Equinor about to make an offer... Why so hard? (1/13) bit.ly/3yjlIG6

The future of Britain will depend on a new age of invention and innovation. Without radical change, we risk decline. We need a fundamental reshaping of the state that embraces the tech revolution, and makes science and technology our new national purpose. institute.global/policy/new-nat…

An early and unexpectedly enjoyable start to today watching the sun rise at Banjul ferry port. Visiting #mangroves later (hopefully)!

Having run a charity, this is a great thread:

Has been brilliant to be back in Sierra Leone this week, especially on Independence Day today. Still the best beaches in West Africa!