Perspectives

Notes from the information environment.

Essays, field notes, and methods from our analysts on how narratives form, move, and matter across Southeast Asia.

Field note
Vendor or Partner? Five Questions Before Your Next Media Intelligence Procurement
A ministry comms team gets to the end of a procurement cycle. Three vendors are shortlisted. On paper they look indistinguishable. The team picks one — and two years later isn't meaningfully sharper than before. The reason isn't that they chose wrong; it's that the RFP itself was asking 2020 questions.
30 April 2026Wisma

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