We are currently in the midst of a general election campaign here in Ireland. The political parties and independent candidates and a variety of pressure groups and lobbyists are going to dominate the media (all of them) from now until the election day. But what do Irish businesses care about? What is their experience? As […]
Today is International Data Protection Day, and Digital Rights Ireland is marking it with the announcement that it has instructed its lawyers to serve legal papers on the Irish government, challenging whether the office of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner is truly an independent data protection Authority under EU law. In a statement, DRI says that […]
The Minister for Skills, Research and Innovation, Damien English TD, today announced funding of €1.5 million for a new research project at NUI Galway which will seek to address technical challenges associated with the development of improved imaging quality for smartphone cameras. Delivered by the Department of Jobs, through Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), the funding is […]
Yesterday afternoon the Irish government filed an amicus brief in the Microsoft data case. We’ve mentioned this case previously, as it has very broad ramifications for cross-jurisdictional issues surrounding data privacy and sovereignty and much more. To recap. A US court wants Microsoft to hand over customer data which is stored on servers in Ireland […]
Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) have today announced the signing of new Cooperation Agreement on the occasion of the State Visit to China of President Michael D. Higgins. The agreement will allow for greater collaboration between both foundations in maintaining and developing co-operative activities in the fields […]
An estimated 250,000 people took part in 800 science festivals, demonstrations, seminars and tours across the country this week during the 19th annual national science week. The week coincided with the success of the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission in landing the Philae lander on Comet 67p: a suitable demonstration of the ‘power of science’ – the […]
From the “only in Ireland” department .. In common with many governments, the Irish government allows citizens to submit petitions online. While many other governments would expect a petition to have some backing before they’d consider them, the Irish system apparently allows petitions to be submitted by a single person without any backing. According to […]
MerrionStreet.ie, the Irish Government’s news service, has just released a slick and funky video of a day in the life of the Taoiseach. What gives it a further technology ‘edge’ is the fact that they picked 30 October, which included Enda’s visit to day one of the Web Summit, where he rang the NASDAQ opening […]
Irish Government CIO Bill McCluggage will be the keynote speaker at the 9th annual Public Sector IT Conference, on Friday 29th of November in Dublin Castle. Two themes will be addressed at this years conference: “Making sense of the future” and “Where we excel and need to accelerate”. Mr McCluggage was appointed earlier this year […]
Anonymous have seemingly launched an attack targetting Irish government websites including revenue.ie. Previous Anonymous actions against Ireland took place during the controversy surrounding copyright legislation in early 2012. At the time and again now, the action was referred to as “OpIreland” They published a press release via Youtube to inform the Irish government of what […]
