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Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about egovernment activities in Ireland.
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- eGovernment - Ireland (general articles) - Archive
- Archived articles and resources about egovernment activities in Ireland.
Added: 18 November 2005
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- eGovernment - Ireland (specific topics) - Archive
- Archived articles and resources about egovernment activities in Ireland.
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- US government deploys open data standards created in Ireland
- Silicon Republic, 26 April 2012. "The open data movement is in full swing and tools and standards created in Ireland are to prove pivotal to open data employed by the US government. It emerged today that agencies in the US Government have adopted a set of web tools and standards developed in Ireland by researchers at NUI Galway's Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI)..."
Added: 26 April 2012;
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- Social media and re-usable data in Ireland's new e-government programme
- by Michael Cross. UKAuthority.com, 16 April 2012 "All Irish public bodies are to draw up a plan of how they will make the most of social media to improve access to services. The policy appears in eGovernment 2012 - 2015 a government-wide strategy published last week. It also promises breakthroughs in open data - and in enforcing the use of a new public services identity card. The strategy, published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, marks a resurgence of interest in e-government. Although Ireland was an early leader in sectors such as online tax returns, e-services have taken a back seat in recent years while Dublin struggled with the country's economic crisis. While cutting costs is a major theme of new strategy, its message focuses on placing users at the centre..."
Added: 17 April 2012;
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- Supporting Public Service Reform: eGovernment 2012 – 2015
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. "The Programme for Government and the Public Service Reform Plan highlight Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) as key enablers to delivering improved public services. Implementation of the ICT elements of the Programme and the Reform Plan will ensure a strong focus on the customer and that better and more innovative use is made of technology to improve the customer experience. To progress these, CMOD, working with the Public Service CIO Council, will develop a series of policy documents. This first one, entitled eGovernment 2012 – 2015 identifies a number of priority action areas for Public Bodies which are intended to enhance public service delivery; ensure that citizens and businesses have ease of access to a range of services through multiple channels; improve data sharing across Public Service organisations; and, develop a more integrated approach..."
Added: 16 April 2012;
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- Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Brendan Howlin T.D. publishes eGovernment 2012-2015
- merrionstreet.ie, Published on Thursday 12 April 2012. "The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Mr Brendan Howlin T.D., has today published the Government's new approach to eGovernment, eGovernment 2012-2015... Five Key Principles of eGovernment 2012 – 2015 1. The needs of citizens and businesses are at the centre of eGovernment. 2. Public services should be delivered through the most appropriate channels. 3. eGovernment should reduce the administrative burden for citizens and businesses. 4. eGovernment projects should reflect Business Process Improvements, delivering demonstrable efficiency, effectiveness and Value for Money gains. 5. Public Bodies should work to ensure that the online channel is the most attractive option for customers..."
Added: 16 April 2012;
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- Government of Ireland Portal
- Provides access to any Irish government website; enables you to explore more than 300 services that you can access online today; and directs you to citizensinformation.ie. when looking for Irish Government information on rights, entitlements and benefits.
Added: 4 August 2011;
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- Minister Howlin launches new website portal which provides central access to more than 300 online public services
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, June 30, 2011. "The Minister for Public Expenditure & Reform, Mr. Brendan Howlin T.D., today launched a new portal which provides details of and access to over 300 public services that are available online. On launching the portal the Minister stated “The Government is committed to transforming the way in which services are delivered and to provide ease of access to public services. In this day and age people expect to be able to organise most of their affairs on the internet, and to be able to tailor those services to their needs, at a place and time that suits them. This portal is a one stop shop that allows people access to a broad range of services, both informational and transactional, and it provides a useful overview to people of the extensive amount of public services available online..."
Added: 4 August 2011;
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- Ireland's 18 hour Open Data Challenge
- by Jonathan Gray. Open Knowledge Foundation Blog, Posted on July 9, 2011. The following guest post is from Dominic Byrne from Fingal Open Data. This post is cross-posted from the Fingal Open Data blog. We were at Ireland's first Open Data 18 hour Challenge. Here's what happened … Ireland's first Open Data 18 hour Challenge took place in Dublin on 4th and 5th July, 2011. Fingal County Council were partners in organising the event along with the Inventorium programme at the National Digital Research Centre, Dublin City Council, Microsoft and the Irish Internet Association..."
Added: 14 July 2011;
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- National Library wins national open source award for its online catalogue
- by OSOR Editorial Team, European Commission, May 17, 2011. "The National Library of Ireland received the Open Source eGovernment Award for its online catalogue in Ireland's eGovernment Awards for 2011, held on 23 March in Dublin Castle. The award recognised the National Library's use of open-source software in its Single Discovery Interface Project, particularly the VuFind Discovery Interface and the Apache Solr search platform, to improve and simplify access to its collections. The judges decided that the award was merited not only by the use of open source but because the Library had ‘taken another step up entirely' through its practical participation in and contribution to the VuFind project..."
Added: 19 May 2011;
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- The Internet Chief is Coming
- Ireland's eGovernment Awards. "eGovernment lets the right hand of government know what the left hand is doing. More digital coordination needed across all key Government Departments – Comms/Energy/Natural resources, Enterprise and Innovation and Finance. 23 March 2011: Greater digital coordination across all key Government departments such as Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Enterprise and Innovation and Finance could deliver major cost savings for the State, according to Maeve Kneafsey, MD of Elucidate. Commenting at the Ireland eGovernment Awards run in association with eircom and held today in Dublin Castle Ms. Kneafsey said, "All of us who work in the digital economy are looking forward to the long awaited appointment of the Government internet CIO, one of whose tasks will be to eradicate any 'silo mentality' within various departments and deliver much more cross-department eGovernment..."
Added: 17 May 2011;
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- Ireland's eGovernment Awards
- YouTube, April 4, 2011. "Ireland's eGovernment Awards in association with eircom, jointly run by the Public Sector Times newspaper and web usage and web strategy experts Elucidate, are now in the tenth year. They are the recognised benchmark for excellence in Irish eGovernment services and standards. The Awards raise awareness and recognise the innovators, developers, forward thinkers and experts who are pioneering the changes happening in how the Irish Government delivers services to its citizens..."
Added: 7 April 2011;
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- Website for people who lose their jobs wins a Public Service Excellence Award
- ePractice.eu, 8 September 2010. Country Ireland; Domain eGovernment; Topic Services for Citizens, Infrastructure, Legal Aspects, User-centric Services. "The losingyourjob.ie website provided by the Irish Citizens Information Board (CIB) won a Taoiseach's Public Service Excellence Award in July 2010; the aim of the website is to help people who have lost their job or been put on reduced hours get clear and comprehensive information about their rights and entitlements..."
Added: 9 September 2010;
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- Irish Government's New Online News Service - A review
- by Richard Fahey. Talkin' bout a revolution, 18 July 2010. "This week's launch of a new news information portal MerrionStreet.ie represents a new approach by the Irish Government to communicate with citizens. The site – named after the Dublin street on which Government Buildings is located – is based on the WordPress Open Source software platform, and was built for the Government by Arekibo for a reported €40,000. The project took five months to pull together since the initial RFP was awarded earlier this year..."
Added: 22 July 2010;
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- Ireland's next big thing - Govt commits extra €5m to Exemplar Network
- Silicon Republic, 15 July 2010. "Exactly a year on, Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Eamon Ryan TD has committed a further €5m to the next two phases of the Exemplar Network which will see the Exemplar Network grow from circling Dublin in the second phase to being a nationwide entity by the third phase in 2013..."
Added: 16 July 2010;
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- MerrionStreet.ie - Irish Government News Service
- "MerrionStreet.ie the Irish Government News Service, is intended to give people a view of Government from the vantage point of Government Buildings itself. It will bring together on one website, a view of Government not seen before. We hope it will be of value to a citizen, to a journalist or to any interested party. In simple terms, MerrionStreet.ie will review the wide range of government activity and then report certain key events as news. All government press releases will be accessible from our website – either by way of RSS feed or by way of links to all government departments. But our central task will be to take a variety of events and report on them objectively, in the language of a news bulletin. We will also feature 'Issues' where useful thematic information, not tied to a particular date, is presented..."
Added: 16 July 2010;
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- Irish Government unveils new social media strategy
- Silicon Republic, 15 July 2010. "The Irish Government's Information Service has built a new social networking-led internet platform based on WordPress, Flickr, Facebook and Twitter called MerrionStreet.ie..."
Added: 16 July 2010;
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