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Highlights
In the three months from October to December 2012, Open Briefing published 16 intelligence briefs, articles and dossiers; made a significant intervention in a key peace and security debate; and responded to six intelligence requests from civil society organisations. The number of website visitors was significantly up on the previous quarter and our online influence score increased. We were awarded a 5,000 grant from the Marmot Charitable Trust. Overall, progress was made on nine out of 11 objectives, despite only being the first quarter of stage 2. During this quarter we also completed a thorough evaluation of stage 1, updated and revamped the website and launched the new Conflict and diplomacy intelligence desk, the Open Briefing consultancy and a community department.
Table 1. Summary of progress achieved to date against each stage 2 objective.
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
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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 289 items to date (30% 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 filed the most items of the issue desks, and the Middle East desk and Asia and Pacific desk filed the most items of the regional desks. Note that the Conflict and Diplomacy desk was only launched at the start of this quarter, which accounts for the low number of items filed so far.
0 Political violence and dissent Resource security and climate change Nuclear issues UK national security Conflict and diplomacy Middle East Asia and Pacific Africa Americas Europe Polar regions
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Figure 4. Number of items filed under each Open Briefing intelligence desk.
11. Generate 9.5% of income from sources other than trusts and foundations
During this quarter, 2.5% of our income came from non-grant sources (26% of target). Chris Abbott, Founder & Executive Director 15 January 2013 Open Briefing | 4