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Open Briefing was awarded a 12,500 grant from the Network for Social Change. We secured our first consultancy client, with a contract worth 930. We passed the 1,000 subscribers milestone. Open Briefings online influence score continued to slowly but steadily increase. Overall, progress was made on seven out of 11 objectives.
Objective Respond to 100 intelligence requirements from civil society organisations Make six significant interventions in key peace and security debates Attain 3,000 subscribers in total Attract 4,000 unique visitors a month to the Open Briefing website Receive 12 media mentions Achieve an average online influence score of 60/100 File 1,000 items under the regional and issue intelligence desks Publish 90 Open Briefing publications Expand the team to 35 members in total Raise 190,000 Generate 9.5% of income from sources other than trusts and foundations
% of target achieved 8%
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Figure 1. Number of subscribers to the Open Briefing e-bulletin, social networks, podcast and other outputs.
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Figure 2. Number of unique visitors and visits to the Open Briefing website.
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7. File 1,000 items under the regional and issue intelligence desks
The Open Briefing intelligence desks have filed 329 items to date (33% of target). The graph below gives an indication of the relative priority given so far to each desk. The political violence and dissent desk and resource security and climate change desk have filed the most items of the issue desks, and the Middle East desk and Asia and Pacific desk have filed the most items of the regional desks. Greater attention needs to be given to the UK national security, Europe and Polar regions desks (the Conflict and diplomacy desk was only launched at the start of stage 2, which accounts for the relatively low number of items filed by that desk).
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Figure 4. Number of items filed under each Open Briefing intelligence desk.
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11. Generate 9.5% of income from sources other than trusts and foundations
During this quarter, 0.3% of our income came from non-grant sources, compared with 2.5% during the last quarter. This was from a consultancy contract worth 930 (33 profit after researchers fees paid) with the Remote Control project initiated by Network for Social Change and hosted by Oxford Research Group. The brief was for scoping exercises and reports on special forces and private military and security companies. 1.4% of our income over stage 2 has so far come from non-grant sources (15% of target).
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