Existing approaches to synthesizing science into actionable insights are slow, incomplete or expensive resulting in decisions based on out-of-date, inaccurate or insufficient evidence. This must change if society is to address its many challenges.
Alive is an alliance of organizations and individuals from across the evidence ecosystem focused on delivering the evidence needed for a better world. We are building and testing a collaborative model of evidence production that delivers up-to-date, trustworthy and affordable evidence to evidence users.
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Living production → Up-to-date
Living synthesis produces evidence that is always available and always up-to-date, enabling evidence users to share evidence irrespective of their timing needs. This is important because mismatched timing needs have been a major barrier to effective collaboration.
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User collaboration → Affordable
Evidence users with common evidence needs source evidence as a consortium to reduce their individual costs of evidence and enable more widespread use of evidence in decision-making.
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Supply coordination → Trustworthy
Shared procurement coordinates evidence production so evidence is “produced once, used many times” and consolidates funding so producers can afford the resources to comprehensively synthesise large quantities of research.
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Better evidence → More impact
Attracts more evidence users, which further improves the affordability and trustworthiness of the evidence and amplifies its impact.
