Comments on: Big Ideas from Global Irish Economic Forum

By: Mistletoe and Wine – 2009 Review « Brendan Hughes, talking about the Internet in business and society in Ireland

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:34:43 +0000

[...] in September. I managed to wrangle a pass to the event and I tweeted and shared some of the big ideas that emerged. The official recommendations emerged in October. Other than the recently revealed [...]

By: Recommendations from the Global Irish Economic Forum « Brendan Hughes talking about the Internet, social media, web 2.0 in business and society in Ireland

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:01:43 +0000

[...] the Global Irish Economic Forum held in Farmleigh a few weeks back was published this week. Having been at the event but not given access to most of the sessions I was interested to see what recommendations emerged [...]

By: » Diaspora, schmiaspora! How about the chickens who came home to roost? - ValueIreland.com : Better Purchasing Decisions Through Better Information

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:01:24 +0000

[...] the comments from Michael O’Leary on what he thought about the conference, and Brendan Hughes review on his blog regarding his experiences at the conference over the weekend. The Irish Times also has had some [...]

By: what value creativity/what cost culture? « stranded

what value creativity/what cost culture? « stranded — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:55:24 +0000

[...] at the same conference Minister Cullen was equally strong in his oppositions to the proposed cuts, citing a recent DKM [...]

By: Listowel Writers’ Week Fringe | In Kerry South over the weekend…

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:18:04 +0000

[...] on how to recover the country… The Global Economic Forum… I wrote a comment to a journalist who was there. He [...]

By: Paul O'Mahony (Cork)

Paul O'Mahony (Cork) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:04:20 +0000

Brendan,
Indeed you’re right. I left all my internet devices behind, so I didn’t test broadband. When I live blogged Listowel Writers’ Week in May, broadband reception was OK, but that’s an urban centre. This weekend I was out on the cliff.

Who says “we’re striving to be a digital economy”? I don’t see any striving going on. Eircom is too busy being bought & sold. The government has only one thing on its mind: damage limitation…

In Alicante, in March, I met a man who had a business providing broadband connectivity to remote places in Norway – a country far more difficult to serve than this, I’d say… Perhaps we could link better with what they’re doing over there?

By: Brendan Lally

Brendan Lally — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:09:59 +0000

Lack of public ‘openness’ is totally daft.

What is to be gained from keeping these sessions closed?

Brendan

By: Brendan

Brendan — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:24:39 +0000

Paul, a Corkman in Kerry for the weekend? That must have been tough! Thanks for leaving the comments. Can I assume that the reason you were off Internet is that you forgot to bring your devices with you rather than the lack of reliable broadband in the Kingdom? We’re striving to be a digital economy, so I assume it is not the latter.

By: Paul O'Mahony (Cork)

Paul O'Mahony (Cork) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:33:50 +0000

Lots of food for thought and action here. Thanks Brendan. I was in Kerry, off internet all weekend. Tis great to find your reports.