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Can a PR Institute help in the war against corruption?

I’ve spent much of the weekend preparing for the Timex Global Communications Summit taking place in Abuja, Nigeria next week.

The conference theme is ‘Building a Corruption Free Society: The Challenges for Public Relations’.

When I started to think about this I realised that in the UK, rightly or wrongly, we start with the assumption that we live in a corruption free society. This means that the efforts deemed necessary by professional bodies and regulators are designed to work on an exception basis rather than the norm.

Road warrior

While I was away sunning myself, I'm pleased to report that the HQ team were still beavering away and I've had some interesting feedback from what was apparently a useful management away day at the end of last week.

There were discussions about a number of issues for the CIPR, both currently and over the coming months, one of these of course being membership and perceptions of the CIPR / barriers to membership. I understand CIPR consultant Steve Miller gave a particularly enlightening report of what he has gleaned from his many visits to consultancies and in-house departments around the UK.