This is encouraging; I wonder whether there are up-to-date reports on how those projects are going.
Also encouraging was an event from March 2016, which I passed on to the FSFE list at the time:
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The Office of Public Works recently organised a day-long seminar 'Open for Business v.2.0' [edited 20170215: Looks like it was jointly organised with the Irish Software Innovation Network: http://www.isin.ie/go/news_events/events/open-for-business-v-2-0] with the following speakers:
Keynote Speaker: Mark Taylor, Sirius
Martin Troy, Dept. of Public Expenditure & Reform / Eoin Mc Cuirc, Central Statistics Office: OpenData in Ireland
Tim Willoughby, LGMA & Giovanni Tumarello, Siren: Use of Open Source DataIntelligence & 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