The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Mr. Alex White, TD, has written to Ms Ellvena Graham to confirm her selection as ESB Chairperson. Minister White has asked Ms Graham to make herself available to attend a meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Transport and Communications, which must confirm her appointment under Government […]
The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Alex White TD, today published online national and county maps that identify the homes, businesses and schools where commercial providers will deliver high-speed broadband access by the end of 2016. Minister White said that the State would invest in all the remaining areas to ensure that every […]
A new plan aimed at creating an extra 93,000 jobs from start-up companies in the next five years was today launched by Minister for Jobs Richard Bruton TD together with Minister of State for Business and Employment Ged Nash TD and Minister of State for Skills, Research and Innovation Damien English TD. Central Bank research […]
Everyone loves being able to visualise data and infographics have become very popular in the last couple of years. However being able to generate attractive graphs and graphics requires both skill and access to data. The EU’s Digital Agenda for Europe site removes some of the pain You can quickly and easily generate a range […]
In Do Penance or Perish: A Study of Magdalene Asylums in Ireland, first published in 2001, historian Frances Finnegan acknowledged the critical role of technology in the demise of Ireland’s institutions for ‘fallen women’ saying, “Possibly the advent of the washing machine has been as instrumental in closing these laundries as have changing attitudes.” Ireland’s […]
RIPE may be the “home” to hardcore network geeks, but they do some really cool stuff that the rest of us can appreciated and understand. One of their recent additions is bunch of tools to help mere mortals visualise how the internet is working (or not). In the case of Syria, as has been reported […]
We mentioned Amazon’s election barometer recently. Facebook have teamed up with CNN to launch “Election Insights“. Using Facebook’s “insights” the site displays the volume of activity on the social network related to the various US presidential hopefuls Full announcement here.
Michele’s in Arizona, at a meeting of domain registrars, discussing policy, including the Registrar Accreditation Agreement. It’s always a struggle to podcast over hotel WiFi but this time we decided it was hopeless. I kept the Skype connection on the studio end, and used Skype-Out to phone Michele’s hotel room. We recorded yesterday on World […]
This week EMC launched their cloud4gov initiative, along with the government, and other industry partners. The Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte made a nice speech. I was talking tech on Raidio na Gaeltachta the next day when the interviewer asked me whether these kinds of announcements could ever deliver what they seem to promise. And […]
