March 3, Ashgabat, ARZUW NEWS. The first sessions of the OSCE seminar "Skills for Effective Interaction between Government Agencies and the Media." took place at the Yildiz Hotel in the capital.
The event began with a welcome by Natalia Drozd, Head of the OSCE Center in Ashgabat, and Dovlet Seyitmammadov, Head of the International Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. Then, the audience was introduced to international experts Marek Bekerman and Eva Tamara Lukasik.
The first session focused on the role of press services in the digital age and the task of the media in informing society about the activities and achievements of the state.
Marek Beckerman talked about how important it is to be able to inform the population. The expert stressed that nowadays, with the huge amount of information, valuable information is often drowned in the information flow and is not easy to find. Also, the expert talked about why it is important to keep in touch with the media. It is an excellent prevention of misinformation.
"If we don't tell, someone else will and it may not be good for the state and the community."
Marek Beckerman.
Eva Lukasik spoke in her session about the importance of websites maintained by government agencies. This resource should not only be a source of reliable and relevant information, but also a means of communication with citizens and the media. In addition, the expert made a visual analysis of positive and negative examples of websites of various state institutions.
Recall that the President of Turkmenistan prescribed all public and private institutions of Turkmenistan to create websites and introduce electronic document management by the beginning of 2021.
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