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Time to get out our digitals...

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  • 16-01-2002 7:32pm
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    Ruu_Old
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    Nice article in the Evening Herald pages 12 &13


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    timod
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    Is that on-line somewhere, or can somebody do a scan? Even a brief summary.

    The EH, isn't very common down here in the real capital...


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    Ruu_Old
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    The main points are really what should be done to kickstart the telecommunications infastructure...

    How can Dublin catch up. Here are the top recommendations of Dublin Chamber of Commerce....

    E-Tsar: Like Britain, Ireland should have a central government agency led by a TD rather than a "faceless civil servant"

    This person would be responsible for giving leadership to the effort to make Ireland a true leader in creating and using world-class "e-infastructure" and be held accountable to the Dail.

    Get Availability Up, Prices Down: Ireland should charge the Information Society Commission with creating a short term plan for making broadband available in Dublin.

    The Chamber emphasises that action needs to be taken place now, so presumably such a plan would need to be in place before the next election, rather than after.

    The Report also says that the Government should directly take on companies that are accused of hindering the rollout of technologies like ADSL and cable broadband.
    The first hasnt yet been launched by Eircom, and the second was promised by NTL but as yet not delivered.

    "Its history repeating itself. Irish brawn built cities, railroads and motorways in America and England. Now Irish brains are building world class broadband, the railroads and motorways of the 21st century, abroad-like in Poland-but we still cant sort things out at home"

    "No one has taken responsibilty and therefore everyone is to blame"

    "If you ask Eircom or Esat, they blame the ODTR or each other. If you ask Labour or Fine Gael, they blame Fianna Fail. If you ask Fianna Fail, they'll deny there is a problem or blame Eircom. And so on"

    "A plague on all their houses, because its everyones fault. Meanwhile, we're running out of time"


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