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On their first day working in the Netherlands, both Tom Paton and Mark Miles wondered why a full-time stakeholder manager was even needed. After all, they had worked on major infrastructure projects in New Zealand, Australia, South Africa ...

When I ask Bart Wesselink for the most remarkable thing he has ever done, he pauses for a moment. Eventually, he says he is most proud of his perseverance. Of the fact that he has always kept learning, working, and developing himself. It ...

Community engagement is everywhere: public consultations, stakeholder platforms, surveys, drop-in sessions, social media updates. Organisations are communicating more than ever before, yet many communities still feel unheard. At the same ...

When I ask Suzet van Rossum what kind of career she imagined for herself growing up, she laughs. “Honestly? No idea,” she says. “I have always been searching.”

That probably explains why her ...

Publiq keeps evolving and we aim to continuously improve our platform for its administrators and end users. Some improvements are immediately visible for subscribers, while others ...

When Paul Frankenhuizen talks about consultation and communication, he does not start with tools or technology. He starts with trust, and yet he is one of the founders of Publiq, an application that allows communication specialists to ...

We tend to measure what we can see

In most development projects, success is defined by visible outcomes. A road opens, homes are handed over, or a wind farm is ...

For many people who work with Publiq outside the Netherlands, Lucas Wijntjes is a familiar name. He is often the first person they spoke to, the one who explained what the platform was meant to do, or the person who helped them navigate it. ...

When I asked Alex Bajús at the end of our interview to tell me one last interesting fact about himself, he shook his head. He genuinely could not think of one. What he did not realise at the time was that he had already shared ...