Top government communicators from 13 countries met in Bosnia-Herzegovina on 28-29 March to discuss the role of public sector communications in the region, in the second South Eastern European government communication conference.
Entries were submitted by public sector communications professionals, central and local government, health, emergency services and wider organisations.
Simon Wakeman is head of communications and marketing at Medway council and writes a public sector communications blog.
Moreover, during the past year Chief Executive Alfred Mockett Alfred Mockett has slimmed down AMS' operations to focus on its core public sector, financial services and communications markets.
In 2004, I saw there was a gap in the market for a PR agency to build two-way communications between public sector organisations and diverse hard-to-reach communities.
He is vice-president of the Foundation for Research on Information Technologies in Society, a non-profit foundation which has on its board personalities from science, the public sector and the global wireless communications industry.
"Collaboration with the public sector - combined with our global communications experience - leads to creative new solutions that can transform lives".
Currently, he runs his own communications consultancy, which provides communications counsel to corporate and public sector clients in consumer products, insurance, publishing, health care, biotechnology, film and television production, acquisitions, foreign diplomacy, and a Presidential Library.
He is a CIPR and CIM qualified marketing and communications professional and has trained many public sector organisations in the UK and internationally in the use of social media in communications and engagement.
It pours out of the public sector every day – from politicians, leaders, managers, professionals, even communications staff.
Ibrahim Mohamoud, Cage's communications officer, said: "The assumption that public sector workers can be trained in a few hours on a complex issue such as understanding the pathways to politically motivated violence is naive and dangerous.
