Observatory of Political and Economic Networks

Who we are

We are a group of Syrian and Arab youth who, after the great sacrifices the Syrian people made during the second decade of the twenty-first century, decided to provide the Syrian people and their friends around the world with a tool that enables them to tie information together and weave knowledge to explore what connects the political, economic, social, security, and military actors in Syria in a step toward building a more just and healthy society.

Our methodology

Most of the Syrian Program products and services in the Observatory for Political and Economic Networks that seek to understand complex systems are based on building network knowledge bases (knowledge graphs) from published sources. In general, the construction process is carried out in three main stages: extraction, processing, weaving...

Disclaimer

The Observatory for Political and Economic Networks is an online data project initially launched with the effort of a small team. The team—in part automatically through artificial intelligence techniques and in part manually—has gathered fragments of dispersed data ...

Our Services

Research sector

Academia and studies

Do you lack the knowledge, resources, skills, or time to collect, clean, and organize the published data for your research examining the complex political, economic, and social issues in Syria through network lenses? Do you need to perform a specific type of network analysis for specific research questions?

Media sector

Investigations and content

Do you lack the knowledge, resources, skills, or time to collect, clean, and organize the published data for visual or written investigative journalism reports or documentaries that address complex political, economic, and social issues in Syria through network lenses? Do you have an investigative report or a documentary needing a certain type of network analysis?

Civil Society

Live community and elites

Do you lack the knowledge, resources, skills, or time to collect, clean, and organize the published data on your field of work or your influence in the political, economic, or social spaces in Syria? Do you have a strategy that requires a certain type of network analysis to implement?

Legal sector

Transparency and accountability

Do you lack knowledge, resources, skills, or time to collect, clean, and organize published data on human rights issues or criminal cases for individual or collective crimes in Syria during the revolution? Do you have a legal case that needs a specific type of network analysis?

Private sector

Companies and investments