Tagged: E-government & News
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Irish Government appoints CIO for the country News
03.05.2013 Former Northern Ireland chief information officer (CIO) and deputy CIO for the UK cabinet Bill McCluggage has been appointed chief information officer by the Irish Government....Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Government, Enterprise Applications, Digital Business, CIO -
#DIF13 – Open governments can make their nations more entrepreneurial (video) News
19.04.2013 By embracing open data and providing citizens with fair and equitable access to knowledge, nations can empower a new generation of entrepreneurs, Emer Coleman told this...Categories: Software & Web Development, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Government, Database, Data Management, Apps -
E-government returns to vogue to banish the austerity blues News
19.03.2013 Anyone with a pulse would know that Ireland’s expensive and unwieldy public sector needs reform. But since the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin, TD,... -
TerminalFour wins framework agreement with UK government’s G-Cloud News
23.11.2012 The UK government’s G-Cloud initiative has signed a framework agreement with Dublin-headquartered content management system (CMS) provider TerminalFour. -
NI government awards stg£20m e-government contract to BT News
20.11.2012 BT has been awarded a stg£20m contract from the Northern Ireland government to improve the public’s access to government services through online, mobile and social media. -
Open government is not merely an option, Silicon Valley’s Irish CIO to tell public sector News
13.10.2012 The Irish CIO of the city of Palo Alto, California – the city that is home to tech giants Apple, Facebook, HP, Google and Yahoo! – is set to warn Irish public-sector IT bosses...Tags: CIO, Apple, Yahoo!, Google, Facebook, HP, Irish Computer Society, Open Data, E-government, SAP -
Growth in fixed-line broadband in Ireland is slowing, EU warns (infographic) News
18.06.2012 Ireland is above average for mobile broadband, according to the European Commission, but growth in fixed-broadband penetration is slowing down and the country is below the...Categories: Wireless Communications, Upskilling, R&D, Government, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Business, Communications -
Obama gives government services one year to become more mobile News
24.05.2012 US President Barack Obama has issued an order that all government agencies make at least two of their public services available on mobile phones over the next 12 months. -
Could Irish State bodies export e-government know-how? News
26.04.2012 Fáilte Ireland scooped the overall eGovernment Award 2012 for its Discover Ireland website. It has been suggested that money could be raised for the Exchequer if e-government...Categories: Social Media, R&D, Internet, eCommerce, Digital Media, Government, Economy, Digital Business, Consumer Tech, CIO, Software & Web Development -
Govts need to heed growing interests of digital citizens - survey News
26.04.2012 Nearly half (44pc) of citizens in seven countries believe interacting with their governments is easy, and 31pc say it’s actually easier to access services from the government... -
Irish Govt reveals e-government strategy up to 2015 News
12.04.2012 The Irish Government has revealed a new e-government strategy that contains 44 actions across eight priority areas. Projects include an online passport service, a national...Categories: Software & Web Development, IT Management, Hosting Services, Government, Data Management, CIO -
The tech predictions for 2012 News
03.01.2012 Siliconrepublic.com editor John Kennedy goes through his tech predictions for 2012 from the fabled Apple TV and iPad 3 to the impact of Windows 8 and hybrid cloud on the... -
UK launches Government Digital Service to drive its online future News
08.12.2011 The British Cabinet Office has officially launched the new Government Digital Service (GDS) the group that will put the UK’s digital strategies into effect.Tags: E-government, Government, -
IBM acquires Irish software firm Cúram for undisclosed sum News
05.12.2011 Technology giant IBM is to buy Irish software company Cúram Software Ltd to deliver social programmes for smarter cities. The financial details of the acquisition have not been... -
Your Dublin Your Voice seeks your voice News
17.11.2011 The Dublin local authorities have harnessed new technologies to create Your Dublin Your Voice as a way in which you can have your voice heard, and it wants to hear from you. -
One millionth document filed on CRO website News
25.07.2011 Businesses filing with the Companies Registration Office (CRO) this month smashed through the one millionth e-form barrier, Enterprise Minister Richard Bruton said today. He... -
NHS stg£2.7bn electronic records blunder costs taxpayers News
18.05.2011 UK taxpayers not getting value for money from the massive stg£2.7bn electronic records system built by the NHS, an official report by the UK National Audit Office claims. It... -
Government needs to be a driver for e-payments News
07.04.2011 Ireland will only embrace e-payments if its Government sets an example and changes the nature of state business. -
Govt asked to speed up appointment of a State CIO News
23.03.2011 There have been fresh calls at the Ireland e-Government Awards for the appointment of a Government CIO to better co-ordinate internet and technology innovation and projects...Categories: Mobility, IT Management, Government, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Business, Data Management, CIO -
Ireland above EU average on e-gov services, report claims News
02.03.2011 A revealing benchmark of EU e-government practices has found Ireland – believe it or not – ranks above the EU average in a number of key areas, such as procurement, online...