INTERVIEWS AND ANALYSIS

 
NDRC

NDCR's LaunchPad programme under way

The National Digital Research Centre's (NDRC) first ever LaunchPad programme supporting emerging start-ups is running until April, with plans for a second one in June.

entrepreneurs

Will the real entrepreneurial CIOs please stand up?

By 2012, companies with the top 25pc earnings growth will have entrepreneurial-minded CIO and therefore in the current economic environment the need has never been greater for entrepreneurial CIOs.

Martin Curley

Ireland can recover by embracing knowledge and risk

Master economists with paradigm-shifting global visions of mixing social justice with sustainable economic growth merge naturally with Prof Martin Curley’s own vision.

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Citizens need web skills for future jobs

Citizens need to prepare for the future jobs market and engagement in society through enhanced web skills, the European Commission has said.

digital technology

Digital transformation will fix the Irish economy

Ireland needs to find a way to emulate the success of locations like Silicon Valley and can begin by fixing the things that are broken and using digital technologies to transform the economy, said the chairman of the advisory board of UCD Smurfit Business School.

DIGITAL REALITIES

John Power


Either curse the darkness or light a candle

The future of Ireland is jobs. The engineering sector offers a kaleidoscope of opportunity for people who want choice in their lives.

WORLD VIEW

 
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Intel leads venture and graduate push in US

Intel is to drive a US$3.5-billion venture capital initiative to grow US industries in a move that will also increase jobs that will be available to college graduates.

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Ireland must learn to commercialise its research

Ireland, like Germany, must do more than just create clever technologies to succeed commercially.

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Europe’s €700bn ICT industry calls on govts to get digital

Broadband-based innovation has the potential to create up to 1 million jobs and generate economic activity worth €849 billion, groups representing Europe’s ICT industry have told European governments.

fibre optic cable

BT calls on rivals to open up fibre ducting

In the UK, BT has called on fellow telecoms operators to open their telecoms infrastructure and fibre ducting and up investment in the area.

fibre broadband

UK Tories: 100Mbps broadband by 2017

The UK Conservative Party has unveiled a broadband plan to provide 100Mbps to most UK homes by 2017.

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Berners-Lee weaves semantic web for UK govt

Government worldwide holds vast quantities of data. What is being done with non-personal data that is potentially useful?

Robert Atkinson

Obama’s IT guru urges inclusion of IT in stimulus plans

Governments must move swiftly to include more IT and ICT investments in their economic stimulus plans.