Hi,

Unfortunately I was unaware of this until just now, but:

The Office of Public Works recently organised a day-long seminar 'Open for Business v.2.0' [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-for-business-v20-tickets-19694884931] with the following speakers:

Keynote Speaker: Mark Taylor, Sirius

Martin Troy, Dept. of Public Expenditure & Reform / Eoin Mc Cuirc, Central Statistics Office: Open Data in Ireland

Tim Willoughby, LGMA & Giovanni Tumarello, Siren: Use of Open Source Data Intelligence & Case tracking in LGMA

Eoghan Mc Carthy, NUIM: Dublin Dashboard and AIRO

Alan Mc Nab, MD of Arista networks: Why Open Source is important to Arista

Dr. Mihai Bilauca, Limerick City & County Council: How Open Source changed customer service delivery

Vincent Hussey, Office of Public Works: Use of Open Source tools in river monitoring

Ray Pierce, Garda Siochana: Open source case tracking

Cleo O' Beirne, Revenue Commissioners: Enterprise Search tools

Closing Locknote: Joe Dromgoole, MongoDB: NoSQL

The seminar took place on 2 March and had the tagline 'open source, open standards and open data'.

Summaries of some of the talks:

Encouraging that this is happening here.

Ben.