Bank of Ireland’s Innovation Team was out in force at Web Summit last week, promoting their new StartLab incubation programme. We spoke to their Entrepreneur-in-Residence Gene Murphy. [youtube]https://youtu.be/DiJrxQiBAvA[/youtube] StartLab is an intensive six-month boot camp; the first one starts in Galway in January, and applications close on 27 November. Before that, however, there are a number […]
Here’s the first of many videos we will bring you from Web Summit 2015. We spoke to Sandeep Ramchandani from Radix, the company behind some of the most tech’ and business friendly new Top Level Domains, including .TECH, .PRESS, .HOST, .WEBSITE, .SITE, .ONLINE, .SPACE and .PW. Registries agree that part of their job involves educating a public still unfamiliar with the […]
ICANN might be somewhat less glamorous than Web Summit – and certainly smaller – but its work is no less important, and probably more fundamental to the workings of the Internet. Last month, over 2,000 delegates attended ICANN’s first meeting in Ireland, ICANN 54 at the Convention Centre Dublin. Feedback from the event has been hugely positive, […]
We’re at Web Summit – and so, it seems, is everyone else! 42000 #WebSummit attendees. 134 countries. Our most international event. Read the top 20 most represented countries: https://t.co/SSMxRw1kKd — Web Summit (@WebSummit) November 2, 2015 42,000 people will attend the event in the RDS over the next three days, mixing, mingling, speaking, listening and […]
City of Physics is year long initiative which builds on the Dart of Physics campaign of 2013. That was an idea by Dr Shane Bergin and Dr Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin who won a small grant to put some physics-themed ads on Dublin’s DART commuter line. The result was an award-winning media campaign that got national attention and international support. […]
The Minister of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Alex White TD, has expressed Ireland’s support for both the multi-stakeholder model of Internet governance and the IANA Stewardship Transition today, during the Opening Ceremony of ICANN’s 54th Public Meeting. The meeting, taking place in Dublin, has convened members of the global ICANN community to discuss and develop […]
Tá 2,500 teachta i mBaile Átha Cliath an tseachtain seo do ICANN54: an 54ú chruinniú idirnáisiúnta ag an Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Eagraíocht idirnáisiúnta is ea ICANN a rialaíonn córas seoltaí an idirlín. Is féidir le éinne ceangailt leis an idirlíon, ach mura bhfuil aontú i measc daoine eile faoin ainm agus seoladh atá agat ar […]
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Dublin Youth Theatre is running a Fundit campaign to support its 38th annual ‘Big Show’. Founded in 1977, DYT is a voluntary organisation which “delivers quality creative experiences that promote artistic, personal and social development for young people aged 14 to 22 in Dublin”. It provides regular workshops for beginners and current members, theatre visits, residential weekends, festivals, […]
Today’s podcast is recorded in Michele Neylon’s office at Blacknight HQ in Carlow. It’s our first show recorded there since we refurbished it with echo-absorbing acoustic panels. Michele jokes that I’ve put him in “a padded cell” – but the sound quality is hugely improved! Click on the player above to listen to the show, or download it here: 34:31; 20MB; […]
