Tagged: Information Society
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Mobile industry’s eCall system aims to save lives on Europe’s roads News
09.09.2009 The worldwide mobile industry body GSMA has developed a new emergency call system that will be deployed across Europe to boost emergency responses and prevent European road deaths.Categories: Comms -
Digital dividend is a once in a lifetime opportunity for Europe’s economy, says Reding News
01.10.2008 If Ireland leads by example in the debate for digital dividend and wireless spectrum in Europe, fast decision-making could enable the country to transform swiftly into the...Categories: Comms -
Holy smokes, it’s the silver surfers! News
13.03.2008 In their rush to be all things cool and trendy, mobile networks and broadband providers are overlooking an important market, the over-55s, with the result that the digital... -
IT workers not inspired by stale rewards – Gartner News
19.02.2007 Companies with stale and aging performance reward practices run the risk of losing valuable IT workers and failing to attract new people in an increasingly tough market for...Categories: CIOTags: Information Society -
Number plate recognition boost for traffic surveillance News
09.05.2006 An Irish technology company has developed an automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) system that will lead to growth in the number of unmanned car parks in Ireland as well as...Tags: Information Society -
Irish execs welcome pay-as-you-go technology News
13.10.2005 New research says that 66pc of Irish executives favour a pay-as-you-go approach to IT resources, saving money currently spent on servers or storage hardware that are not used to...Categories: BusinessTags: Information Society -
Govt ‘overlooks’ Irish IT firms in awarding contracts News
11.10.2005 The managing director of one of Ireland’s oldest IT firms has hit out at a growing situation whereby an estimated 75pc of the Government’s spend on IT goes to the top 10 IT...Categories: BusinessTags: Information Society -
Comment: Content is key to demand News
13.09.2005 Since taking on the information society portfolio I have become fascinated by the amount of material being produced and at the huge amount of activity going on about the...Categories: GovernmentTags: Information Society -
Prime Carrier confirms AIM intentions News
24.06.2005 PrimeCarrier has confirmed the company is on the acquisition trail and is considering a listing on London’s Alternative Investments Market (AIM) to carry potential transactions....Categories: BusinessTags: Information Society -
Ireland retains global ranking News
24.02.2004 Ireland ranks as the world’s most global nation for the third year in a row, according to the fourth annual AT Kearney/Foreign Policy Magazine Globalisation Index. This year’s...Categories: Business -
A national imperative News
07.01.2004 One of the reasons e-business has been slow to take off, it could be argued, is that it is a concept we find it difficult to grasp and put a tangible value on. The same...Tags: Broadband, Information Society, -
ICS calls for national broadband strategy News
12.12.2003 The Information Society Commission (ISC) has published a new report on broadband in which it calls for a national broadband strategy to be urgently developed, and for...Categories: CIOTags: Broadband, Information Society, -
Taoiseach to address info society summit News
10.12.2003 Taoiseach Bertie Ahern TD is due to speak at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva tomorrow as the head of a Government delegation that includes Minister...Categories: Government, R&D -
Digital divide deepens News
05.12.2003 A scientific survey by the Information Society Commission (ISC) has indicated that the digital divide in Ireland is widening with 74pc of people in the higher professional...Categories: CIO -
How to turn Ireland on to technology News
28.11.2003 As we hurtle inexorably towards Budget 2004, one of Ireland’s best-known academics is perplexed. The last time there was a budget surplus Dr Danny O’Hare ( pictured ), current...Tags: Broadband, Information Society, -
E-government targets to miss 2005 deadline News
06.11.2003 E-government targets set for 2005 will not now be met, it has emerged. Both the Information Society Commission (ISC) and the Minister for State with responsibility for the...Categories: Government -
Sites for sore eyes News
30.10.2003 You’re in San Francisco for the weekend and it’s the usual problem. Where oh where will you find a dominatrix at short notice? The solution is near at hand however. All you have...Categories: CIO, GovernmentTags: Information Society, website -
Many still on margins of information society News
09.10.2003 Nearly 40pc of Ireland’s adult population do not see the internet as being relevant to their daily lives, a new report from the Information Society Commission (ISC) has shown....Categories: CIO, Government -
Managing the web of knowledge technology News
19.02.2003 “Knowledge management is an oxymoron: I don’t think you can manage knowledge.” This might seem like a strange thing for the director of the AIB Centre for Information and...Tags: Information Society, Knowledge Economy, -
Commission to increase its profile News
28.11.2002 The Information Society Commission (ISC) is a bit like that other more famous commission in Brussels - people have heard of it but generally don’t have a clue what it does. Not...Categories: Comms, GovernmentTags: Information Society,