Centre of Excellence
On 21 June in the Alexander Hotel, Dublin, the Dept. of the Taoiseach and winners of this year’s Irish Central eGovernment Award, along with international eDemocracy expert, Dr Julia Glidden from Sheffield City Council, present a picture of how eGovernment at a local and national level, is impacting on our political decision makers. Gary Kearney from safefood also presents one of the most exciting and innovative technology projects within the food and research sector.

Programme and speakers

Agenda includes case study presentations from

• Peter Ryan, Assistant Secretary, Dept. of the Taoiseach and winners of the 2006 Irish Central eGovernment Award for eCabinet, presents a case study and shares insights into how they achieved such an integrated online resource serving Irish Ministers and Civil Servants
  
  
•   Dr Julia Glidden, Sheffield City Council e-Democracy Advisor, shares their experience of eDemocracy in action. Dr Glidden has been directly involved in the implementation of the UK’s 2002 and 2003 e-voting pilots and recent National e-Democracy Project.
  
  
  
• Dr Gary A. Kearney, the Laboratory Liaison Manager with safefood offers an insight into his experiences in introducing the LIMS project which is paving the way to a far faster means of identifying real or potential food risks and outbreaks in Ireland. This important project for the first time facilitates Irish laboratories electronically log and transmit their food analysis results and so speed up data access, processing, and the reporting of routine and outbreak findings. This project involved securing and managing cross-agency, national and cross boarder co-operation.

Photos from the Centre of Excellence Seminar held on June 21 at Alexander Hotel

Maeve Kneafsey from Elucidate making a Presentation to Frank Daly from Revenue

Barney Whelan from An Post, Gary Kearney (a Speaker) from Safefood

Deirdre Cosgrove from Safefood, Maeve Kneafsey from Elucidate, Sean Connolly from Revenue

John Bellew, Deirdre Cullen, John Twomey all from Dept of Communication Marine & Natural Resources

Ann Graves from HETAC, James Maguire from ROI, Deirdre Cosgrove from Safefood

Valerie McIlwee from Dept of Communications Marine & Natural Resources, Kathleen Guinan from Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown County Council, Tony Flynn from Department of Communications Marine & Natural Resources