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. They chiefly regard matters of principle, with a focus on civic, non-kinetic counter-terrorism. In turn, the open content consists of pieces on current affairs, theory and, not the least, actionable recommendations in the field of soft counter-extremism and other related topics – such as countering hate speech and dis-/misinformation. As far as the subjects of the material are concerned, the think tank’s projects – as showcased on five websites – mostly touch upon digital communication and technology, religious questions, societal issues, and on capacity building in the Sahel region. Quite importantly, Policyinstitute.net’s contributions are solutions-oriented.
The Network
Our founder, Thorsten Koch, MA, PgDip, supervises a number of volunteers who contribute third-party analyses about the previously mentioned topics. Thus far, Koch has distributed more than 40k posts on LinkedIn to a network of more than 7k followers and connections, and has also been filing a bi-weekly digest, all under the umbrella of Policyinstitute.net. On a good working day, his LinkedIn posts reach 3k views. Visits to the five Policyinstitute.net websites exceed the mark of 800k.
Journalism At Its Best
The content distributed by Policyinstitute.net requires monitoring and researching reliable sources, i.e. 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 we provide access to. Rather, Policyinstitute.net’s LinkedIn operations are all about full-fledged journalism in the near – and in the premier – sense. Finally, let us recall that honesty is the best policy.