We still have one of the worst broadband infrastructures around

The web works best in the country that tried to shut down Pirate Bay?

The use of the Internet by government or lack of dhows a lot about there age and unwillingness to move with current trends economics and technology. When you think it cost 800€ each to train them how to use twitter and face book it might be better to let this shower die off in a dark corner while the likes of Simon Donnelly come through. Any interaction they do have with tech is done with an army of over paid advisors.

I bet the Italians are kicking themselves.

I don’t if I’d subscribe to this. I’ve lived in Canada for over a year now and their online service pale in comparison to our own. At least for private websites. Government websites and services are on a par with Ireland.

There’s been some confusion here. The guy in the picture wants to stop INTENET censorship. Thats a different thing all together

Shane can you explain why we had to pay for a course to teach them how to use twitter and face book if we are do good. Europe must be in a shocking state if we are at the top of the table.

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Well, for example, BC is years ahead re Open Data and Open Gov http://www.activecitizen.cc/open/open-data-signals-new-direction-for-bc/

WARNING: According to TBL, the next generation Web, known as ‘semantic web’ has been built on the top of the ‘web of data’. In turn, the ‘web of data’ is mainly driven by ‘Open Government Data’ http://newsstream.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/02/openness-and-the-opening-ceremony/

In some countries civil societies push their respected governments to liberate the meaningful information collected by the governments on behalf and at expense of it’s citizens; and make it available for reuse in useful non-propitiatory machine-readable formats, known as ‘Open Data’.

In other countries, governments, seeing undeniable benefits of the ‘open data’, champion the data liberation and encourage development of civic apps, which help both the government and its citizens to make more better informed decisions based on facts.

Taking into account that in Ireland:
(i) there is not even a notion of ‘Open Government’;
(ii) on the national scale, there is no ‘Open Data’ (even in comparison to Italy, never-mind the UK),
we will be lucky to be in the top 20 next year and in the top 50 a year after.

(Just see one example of what’s hosting Google, Microsoft, Twitter et al. Ireland is missing completely already http://www.activecitizen.cc/open/open-data/open-data-in-transit/)

Unless the situation with availability of the ‘Open Government Data’ in Ireland is changed radically and without any further delay, the Irish hopes to have a knowledge economy will never materialise and a hard earned reputation of a global technological centre-of-excellence will disappear rapidly.