Since 2008, Coconets has specialized on providing decision-makers with knowledge-based tools that help them find better solutions to complex problems.
Since 2010, Coconets has worked closely with its partner enlightenment*, a digital communication agency.
In 2024, we decided to join forces and to continue Coconets as part of the enlightenment* brand, which was founded in 2010 by Sebastian and Lena Delius. The mission, goals, and approaches of enlightenment* have been refined over the course of the past 15 years, but at the core, we remain true to the following principles:
Digitalization changes everything
The lightning speed of today’s digital communication and the unchecked use of AI forces decision-makers into an unknown sphere where they mostly react instead of steering the action. The overload of information and data is a major challenge to rational decision-making. A shift from evidence to instincts seems to take place. Public discourses are locked in filter bubbles. Even worse, facts and evidence are being denied and contradicted.
The only way to address the challenges of digitalization is digitalization. We need a new age of digital enlightenment.
enlightenment* is ready to act. As a digital communication agency, we are determined to increase the quality, relevance, practical impact and scope of our customers’ meaningful work, including the generation processes and surrounding discourses.
Instant prototyping to translate complexity into practical solutions
Even the best data and information is useless, if it lacks context and meaning. We couple smart data-driven services with human expertise. Contextual dossiers are one of our key means to easily identify new linkages, possible correlations, trends, and blind spots.
A ready-made solution does not suffice given the ever-increasing complexity. We understand development as a mutual process in which we empower our clients to become digitally literate and ourselves to become fluent in our clients’ issue domain, based on our own academic expertise in the social and political sciences.
Instead of putting a fixed fine concept up front, we rely on prototyping as a tangible method and the best joint language both sides can communicate in. In our workshops, prototyping is done instantly and live, combining conceptualization and implementation. We continuously put all our assumptions and ideas to a rigid test, question their practicability, revise them when needed . Also, feedback from the target audiences can (and should) be assessed and incorporated at any given time, if not even on a continous basis. At the end, the prototype is the final product, yet further extendable.
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