Our Topics
Since 2017, it has been Policyinstitute.net’s mission to deliver meaningful articles and analyses, official documents, audio, and video pieces, on a daily basis. As showcased on our five websites, they chiefly touch upon digital communication and technology, religious and ideological questions, societal issues, and – with regard to the Sahel region – capacity building. In practice, most posts regard analytical reports, current affairs, and matters of principle with a focus on civic, soft counter-extremism and related topics – such as means against hate speech and ways to avoid dis-/misinformation. Quite importantly, Policyinstitute.net’s contributions often include actionable recommendations.

The Network

Our founder, Thorsten Koch, MA, PgDip, supervises a number of volunteers who contribute third-party analyses about the above-mentioned topics. Thus far, Koch has distributed more than 18k posts on LinkedIn to a network of now more than 7.5k followers and connections, and has also been filing a bi-weekly digest under the umbrella of Policyinstitute.net. On a good day, Koch’s daily LinkedIn posts reach 2k views.

Journalism At Its Best
The content distributed by Policyinstitute.net requires monitoring and researching reliable sources, gatekeeping, as well as editing. Due to the fact that these endeavors are all about objectivity, our work does not constitute Public Relations (PR). We do not work for any client, nor do we sell the free content which we provide access to. Rather, Policyinstitute.net’s LinkedIn operations constitute full-fledged journalism in the near – and in the premier – sense.