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  • EU digital Covid certificates to be made available to Irish citizens north of the border

    Irish citizens who received Covid-19 vaccinations in Northern Ireland and other non-EU countries will be able to obtain a digital Covid certificate online from later this week.

    The Republic's government is creating an online portal after the initial roll-out of the EU digital Covid certificates began in July.

    The portal is expected to go live later this week, RTÉ said.

  • Identifying Ireland’s eHealth needs

    Paul Mulholland examines the Government’s new eHealth strategy and Health Identifiers Bill

    Given the increasing importance of information technology within the health sector, the lack of a national IT health strategy has been seen as a fundamental gap that has prevented the Department of Health and the HSE from running a fully modernised service.

    Also, while the Government had been working on a Health Information Bill for the last number of years, which would facilitate the much heralded unique patient identifiers, there was little sign that this legislation was being progressed. These two factors combined meant that Ireland was far from leading the way in the area of eHealth.

  • Ireland ‘leading’ Europe in developing digital green cert for travelling between countries, Minister says

    Ireland is “leading” Europe on developing a digital green certificate for travelling between countries, Minister of State for eGovernment and public procurement Ossian Smyth has claimed.

    Smyth, who is set to take on additional responsibilities as Minister of State for Communications, told the Sunday Independent that the EU documents will work with domestic vaccination certificates, expected in coming months.

  • Irish internet users becoming more engaged - study

    The level of engagement of Irish internet users has grown in the last year, according to a new European Union scoreboard.

    The Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) found increases in the percentage of the population using online shopping, social networks, video calls, and consuming online news.

  • 'Rate My Hospital' Ireland's top e-health project

    Irishhealth.com’s unique ‘Rate My Hospital’ service has just been nominated as Ireland’s top e-health project and now goes forward to represent Ireland in the biannual World Summit Awards (WSA), a global contest for selecting and promoting the World’s best e-content and applications.

    The WSA are held every two years in association with the United Nations. The WSA Grand Jury 07 meets in Croatia from today, August 31st until September 7th. A total of 36 experts from all parts of the world will come together to judge the best contents and most innovative applications from around the world, including ‘Ratemyhospital.ie’.

  • 30% of Irish adults have never been online

    According to an EU Commission study, 30% of Irish adults have never been online.

    The study showed however that some sectors of Irish industry are ahead of EU averages for ICT use.

    It also revealed that EU spending on ICT research is less than half of US levels.

    By 2020, the European Commission wants all households to have access to high-speed broadband, as part of its "Digital Agenda". By 2015, all patients could have access to their online medical records wherever they are in the EU.

  • AMD begrüßt neue Beschaffungsrichtlinien in Österreich und Irland

    Österreich und Irland haben neue Richtlinien für die öffentliche Ausschreibung von IT-Ausstattungen erlassen, teilt AMD mit. "Die Benutzung bestimmter Marken- oder Produktnamen in öffentlichen Ausschreibungen sowie die Nennung technischer Leistungsmerkmale wie etwa Taktfrequenzen oder Caches von Mikroprozessoren sind laut des Beschaffungsgesetzes der Europäischen Union (EU-Richtlinie 93/36) verboten", schreibt der Prozessorhersteller. Die neuen Richtlinien der österreichischen und irischen Regierung ähnelten jenen, die die Regierungen von Belgien, Frankreich, Deutschland, Italien, Schweden, Großbritannien, Japan, Kanada und USA bereits getroffen hätten.
  • British e-Government: better than Ireland, but still not good enough

    British eGovernment websites outperform Irish peers, but a lack of focus on users and customer service, allied to a failure to implement best practice web design and web management techniques, still undermines Britain’s eGovernment initiative.

    New research from internet consultancy iQ Content shows that while Britain’s eGovernment initiative outstrips Irish efforts, many British eGovernment websites are still failing to deliver value to citizens.

  • Could Irish State bodies export e-government know-how?

    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 leaders got together and sold their know-how abroad.

    The awards were presented by the Minister for Expenditure and Public Reform Brendan Howlin, TD.

    At the awards, organiser Maeve Kneafsey of Elucidate said much-needed funds could be raised for the Exchequer if know-how gained by fast-moving Irish State bodies in the e-government space was commercialised and sold overseas.

  • Digital Quality of Life Index – Ireland ranks top 20

    The Digital Quality of Life (DQL) index is published annually based on research conducted by the privacy protection company Surfshark.

    Researchers measure internet quality, affordability, e-security, online government services, and e-infrastructure.

    This year’s edition of the DQL research concluded that 7 out of 10 countries with the highest digital quality of life are in Europe, with Denmark taking the global lead among 85 countries.

  • E-government is back on Ireland’s national agenda

    E-government in Ireland, a term not heard of for quite a while, has returned to the table and the provisions set out by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin, TD, call for more progress in the area, along with advances in cloud computing and shared services.

    Today, Howlin proposed a set of plans that will see the number of people employed in the public sector drop by 37,500 to 282,500 by 2015.

    While the reductions are going to result in savings for the public purse, it is clear that State doesn’t want to see any reduction in the quality of service to citizens (aka, customers).

  • E-government to return to Ireland

    New online services are to be offered by the Irish government after a seven-year hiatus, with online voter registration,a national release of fixyourstreet and a central portal of more than 300 public services being rolled out, according to Silicon Republic.

    Effective data management will be central to the government's objectives, as local governments and companies in the UK recover from a year of data security leaks and data integrity mismanagement.

  • E-government usage levels in Ireland up 6pc

    The rate of use of e-government in Ireland services increased 6pc, an annual global survey by Accenture revealed. However, the survey found that in terms of e-government innovation such as the introduction of new services Ireland is in the bottom quadrant and risks falling further behind.

    The annual ‘Leadership in Customer Service’ survey of e-government deployments globally by Accenture revealed that in general the leading governments are introducing services on a par with the best of the private sector. Governments that have led the way, however, are now at a critical junction having ‘reached the limit’ of their current approaches and need to re-assess and re-craft their customer service strategies.

  • E-passport launched in Ireland

    Ireland has launched its e-passport, just days ahead of a US deadline to bring in biometric passports or risk being booted from the visa waiver scheme.

    The new, high-tech document includes a secure, contactless electronic chip to store encrypted digital information on the holder's identity, biographical information and a digital image identical to that of the holder.

  • ESRI in EUR1m Northern Ireland e-gov deal

    ESRI has landed a deal with a property valuation agency in Northern Ireland which will see it re-value property throughout region.

    The Valuation and Land Agency of Northern Ireland has awarded a contract to an ESRI Ireland-led conglomerate to implement a GIS- (Geographic Information Systems) based system which will enable it to re-evaluate all properties in Northern Ireland to gain a more accurate property valuation and to comply with industry standards.

  • EU recount delay now shows need for e-voting - Minister

    Justice Minister says 28 day wait for result in EU election is 'mind-boggling'

    Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has raised the prospect of a return to electronic voting.

    Amid the fallout of a lengthy recount in the Ireland South constituency, Mr Flanagan has put the controversial electronic method back on the agenda. He wants the new electoral commission, which is expected to begin work later this year, to prioritise a study of international best practice in the area.

  • EU: Four cities chosen to pilot digital rights framework

    The cities will receive technical advice, ad hoc support, and advisory input to address the pressing challenges related to the ethical and digital rights aspects of their local digital strategies and projects.

    Belgian capital Brussels, Dublin, Ireland, Sofia, in Bulgaria and Tirana, in Albania have been chosen to pilot the Digital Rights Governance Framework.

    The framework focuses on the local safeguarding of human rights in the digital context of city governments.

  • Every Irish secondary school to get 100Mbps broadband by 2014

    By 2014 every secondary school in Ireland will have 100Mbps broadband, Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte TD and Education Minister Ruairi Quinn TD said today. The national rollout will see 200 more schools connected by September and a further 450 by 2014.

    The programme follows a successful pilot of 78 secondary schools that saw teaching and learning levels improve through digital technology.

  • Exclusive Interview with Barry Lowry, Government of Ireland: Ireland and its digital governance journey

    Enhancing the “MyGovID" electronic accounts of the people and focusing on Open Data are part of its current initiatives.

    Learnings from other countries, their policies and plans about technology and innovation provides a wide scope of knowledge.

    Exploring their best practises, hearing of exisiting expertise they have tapped and initiatives they are currently embarked on are great resources for other countries to adapt and adopt.

  • First Nordic-Irish Partnership for Smart Cities launches in Dublin

    The Nordic Embassies in Dublin and the All Ireland Smart Cities Forum have today launched the first-ever joint Nordic-Irish partnership for smart and sustainable city development.

    The partnership will see representatives from the four Nordic countries of Norway, Finland, Denmark and Sweden form a new alliance that builds on an existing EUR 6 Billion Irish-Nordic trading relationship for goods, while trade in services continues to grow strongly.

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