The Digital Repository of Ireland won the Promoting Ireland Overseas, Open Source and Overall Award last Thursday for the Inspiring Ireland project it spearheaded in collaboration with eight of Ireland’s national cultural institutions and the Department of Arts, Heritage, and the Gaeltacht.
Read more: IE: Digital Repository of Ireland wins at Ireland E-Government Awards
All 18 city councillors were presented with the latest in new computer technology – an individual laptop/tablet combination for each elected member.
Each city councillor was also presented with printers to accompany their new ‘toys’.
Read more: IE: Galway City councillors get €28,000 worth of laptops
The government’s online service www.rtol.ie allows road haulage and public passenger transport operators to apply for – and manage – their licences online. It was one of the Minister’s key priorities for 2014 and is in line with the eGovernment and Public Service Reform plans.
Setting out a new IT strategy for the health service will be a key target for the HSE’s new chief information officer when he takes up his post next month, according to Minister for Health Leo Varadkar.
Richard Corbridge will join the HSE from the NHS National Institute for Health Research. Implementing the Government’s ehealth strategy will be among his responsibilities.
Read more: IE: New IT strategy will aim to build coherence for patients
Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin overlapped with his cabinet colleague Richard Bruton in South Korea. Mr Howlin was attending a United Nations conference on public service reform and said the Koreans were very interested in what Ireland has achieved in the past three years in this area.
Read more: IE: Howlin studying Korea’s moves in e-government