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Not every question requires a full process. During the consultation phase you sometimes simply want to know what residents think, start a conversation about a specific location, or collect ideas that you had ...

Anastasia Surikova, front-end developer at Publiq, likes a challenge. At fourteen, that meant figuring out how to build websites. At fifteen, it meant moving from Russia to the Czech Republic. ...

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 ...

With most infrastructure projects of importance in the UK, there is normally a substantial lead-time. Indeed, the general complaint is that we take far too long, and successive Governments have expressed their frustration. They describe our ...

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 ...

So much has been written and talked about the British reluctance to build or renew our creaking infrastructure …

There are many theories why it takes us longer to decide, and longer to build ...