Barry, on the IP issue, they were essentially looking for something that you could not make money out of yourself… it was not a business-idea but a country-idea. Perhaps this was not communicated clearly enough as the issue of IP raised itself continually throughout the campaign.

Brian, have to agree that the final list is marked by the absense of any cultural initiatives. We are world leaders in this space and surely there were some worthwhile proposals in there.

Branedy, the proof of this value of this campaign will be in the implementation of the final winning ideas. If they are not implemented to any meaningful extent (as has been the fate of many other government-backed worthwhile initiatives) then you can be sure that there will be zero goodwill for any future initiatives.

We have five ideas that will be reduced down to two. Are any of them interesting enough to warrant the financial and organisational investment that has gone into this campaign to date? Would a few of the right heads locked in a room for a day (the judging panel for example) not as easily have come up with these and better ideas? If the ideas are not implemented is this a complete farce of a campaign? Will there be a public communications campaign to keep us up to date on progress – it would take months/years to implement some of the ideas? Even if nothing else comes of the winning ideas, was this a good shot in the arm for Ireland Inc, to generate goodwill and innovative thinking about our future from the native population and the diaspora?

Absolutely Nothing will come of it, much of it due to the current government attempting to bow to U.S. DMCA and secretly trying to implement internet censorship and passing Blasphemy Laws.

To implement D6541, D8134 and D10140 would require a completely free, open and unrestricted internet communications ‘cloud’ to be established in Ireland. A New Infrastructure, and free of political influence, two things this government can’t and won’t allow.

Best of luck!

Who would want to give up all IP to their idea but putting it in the public domain?

The most popular idea was to build a “Monorail”, well it worked for North Haverbrook…

Good opinion here – http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/0423/1224268953371.html