The Top Proposal on 'Your Country Your Call' is..

[Bi ciuin]

So here are the top submission and finalists.

D3279 Creation of a “Superbrand” to market Irish Tourism & Food


D6541 An opportunity for Ireland to become a Global Media Hub

D8134 Establishing an intellectual property (IP) based financial securities market in Ireland


D9686 Installation of Solar PV Electricity Generation on existing windfarms

D10140 The Data Island Strategy



And the ones that didnt make it but were close

Semi finalists
24th June 2010


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Ireland as an Online Gaming Jurisdiction
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Ireland - the world's first fully regulated jurisdiction for interactive online gaming and gambling
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An International Healthcare Services Centre (IHSC)
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Develop Ireland as a Cloud Computing Centre of Excellence - to be leveraged accordingly
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Global Academic Research Hub and Incubation Institute into Green Energy and Climate Change Control
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Green Ireland - a new brand for developing Irish Food and Tourism
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Academic Pathway - attract international students to Ireland
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Make Ireland a Global Media Hub
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Meitheal na hEireann
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ISSC Dublin
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Apple Media Center - Mobile Device Research & Media
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Establishing an Intellectual Property (IP) backed financial securities market in Ireland
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District of Communications and Knowledge - The DOCK has landed

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WAREHOUSE IRELAND
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Water Cycle Sustainability and the Reuse of Water in Dublin
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HSE-i : The Ideas Factory
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Installation of solar PV electricty generation on existing windfarm sites
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A New Bio-Energy Market for Ireland
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YEATS INSTITUTE OF LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
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The Data Island - Green Mega Data Centres and Analytics Innovation Hubs
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Exporting International Tertiary Education

[jmcc]

It is rather unusual that one of those proposals is the bones of that "Gateway Ireland" thing of which the proposer was/is project manager. ( Welcome to Gateway Ireland )

Regards...jmcc

[Mushroom]

A total crock of sh1te - which is exactly what one would expect from a half-baked idea like 'Your Country your Call' If Sean Citizen had come up with a 'brainwave' like this ludicrous scheme, he would have been laughed off the stage, but once Ireland's version of the Bourbons got their talons into it, this scheme was immediately treated with ill-deserved respect by the fawning media.

The thing that really pees me off is that the McAleeses are going to take money off the taxpayer, courtesy of the hapless Batt O'Keeffe, to fund their latest venture into Hello Magazine style governance. At least in Dragon's Den, the entrepeneurs stump up their own money - but when the McAleeses get involved, it's our money that they spend. Respect your betters, peasants of Ireland.

"The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation said yesterday it had not provided money to fund the competition but a spokeswoman said formal arrangements were being put in place to allow a payment to be made. Earlier this year, Your Country, Your Call asked the Department for €300,000 in funding for the initiative."


PS I see that Maccer and hubby are heading off on yet another junket at our expense - to Russia this time. I wonder if there's any chance that they might suffer the same fate as the Romanovs in Ekaterinburg? Fingers crossed.

[oceanclub]

As pointed out, vacuous nonsense. But then the purpose of this exercise is to reassure us plebs and give La McAleese and hubby some headlines.

For example, one of the ideas is a media hub. Did anyone ask the permagrinning Ryan as he got his photo taken at the launch, how we expect to do this when, after he's been Minister of Communications for 3 years, Ireland has the slowest broadband in the developed world bar Mexico, a country in the middle of a vicious narco war?

Cargo cultish nonsense. It seems that as long as we slap a logo or branding on something, well, we don't actually have to _do_ anything.

P.

[Twin Towers]

Actually a poster on property pin made the most brilliant proposal of marketing Ireland as a centre of excellence in how to completely ************************ everything up.

Housing
Banking
Healthcare
Childcare
Industry
Immigration
Welfare
Roads
Law and Order
Water
Energy
Waste
Planning
Communications
Employment Law
Defence

Charge others to come study and learn from us how not to do it.

[CookieMonster]

As pointed out, vacuous nonsense. But then the purpose of this exercise is to reassure us plebs and give La McAleese and hubby some headlines.

For example, one of the ideas is a media hub. Did anyone ask the permagrinning Ryan as he got his photo taken at the launch, how we expect to do this when, after he's been Minister of Communications for 3 years, Ireland has the slowest broadband in the developed world bar Mexico, a country in the middle of a vicious narco war?

Cargo cultish nonsense. It seems that as long as we slap a logo or branding on something, well, we don't actually have to _do_ anything.

P.

There weren't nearly enough buzz words in that. You didn't "incubate" anything, nor did you foster, grow, or promote. There wasn't a greenhouse of ideas there at all.

[oceanclub]

There weren't nearly enough buzz words in that. You didn't "incubate" anything, nor did you foster, grow, or promote. There wasn't a greenhouse of ideas there at all.

I full intend to proactively leverage my synergies by running them up a flagpole ASAP.

P.

[stripey cat]

So the winning "ideas" are to establish Ireland as a “global media hub” and a “data island” .


'Media hub' and 'data island' take prize - The Irish Times - Fri, Sep 17, 2010

Screen writer and digital media consultant Neil Leyden made the global media hub proposal.
He said it would involve creating an Irish Content Industry Association and a media park to attract global content industries.

What does that actually mean? Does anyone know?

The data island strategy proposed by Cianán Clancy and Colm MacFhlannachadha involves developing green “mega data centres” and an international innovation area.

Right so Ted.

[DCon]

So the winning "ideas" are to establish Ireland as a “global media hub” and a “data island” .


'Media hub' and 'data island' take prize - The Irish Times - Fri, Sep 17, 2010



What does that actually mean? Does anyone know?



Right so Ted.

Might one need electricity for a "data island"?

Might electricity be rather expensive in Ireland?

[firefly123]

Might one need electricity for a "data island"?

Might electricity be rather expensive in Ireland?

Well thats where we employ 100,000 unemployed people to peddle bicycles with dynamos on them. These jobs will be "high end" and enable us to "synergise" inovation and job creation in one event.