October 2009
10 posts
The South Dublin County Time Machine Launches
Last evening, as part of the innovation dublin festival, South Dublin Innovates in conjunction with the South Dublin Libraries launched the South Dublin County Time Machine (also known as the historical mapping project). Our previous blog entry refers.
You can now access this on-line project which uses the innovation of modern GIS technology with both out of copyright and licensed mapping, to...
Dragons spotted in South Dublin!
As part of the Innovation Dublin week, South Dublin Innovates proudly presented a take on the popular Dragon’s Den TV series except this time the contestants were children from local schools who pitched ideas for the development of their local communities.
The ‘dragons’ for the day consisted of;
the Mayor of South Dublin County, Mick Duff,
SDCC County Manager, Joe Horan,
...
Borrow a Person / Not a book :: South Dublin...
Fields of Gold
“Fields of Gold”, the...
WatchAfter yesterdays blog about how South Dublin County Council use innovative technologies and techniques to assist the citizenry with issues and concerns - we thought that you might like to see and hear from our customer care team in action. With this in mind we have just uploaded a short video where you’ll hear some of our customer care team explain to the viewer how the customer care...
Connecting you to Customer Care
Innovative customer care is important in order to be able to deal with concerns and issues which South Dublin County’s citizenry have. For some time now, South Dublin County Council have been logging and tracking customer care issues throughout the organisation to ensure that they get dealt with in as orderly and effective a manner as is possible. Issues or concerns can be presented to our...
Open Source Hub
South Dublin County Council use fit for purpose best in class solutions to assist us discharge our services to the citizen of the county. No matter what project we embark on we will ask ourselves two questions; (a) is there an open source solution which could help us, and (b) is such a solution appropriate to the needs of the project. Beyond open source - the council also utilise free on-line...
South Dublin County's Time Machine Innovation
We blogged here recently about the innovations which South Dublin County Council are utilising to enable the citizen to partake in shaping South Dublin County online. Such innovations are great for shaping the future of our county but South Dublin County is full of history and heritage.
The guys in our county library local studies section together with the folk from our Information Systems...
Innovative Places :: RUA RED
RUA RED, South Dublin Arts Centre: celebrating innovation in the arts
Rua Red will be celebrating Innovation Week by showcasing our top creative websites and screening digital media films created by Irish artists. Tours of the building will be available on Friday 16th October and Saturday 17th October.
The digital media labs will be available to hire with a special 10% discount throughout the...
Digital Treasure Hunt
Join in the Digital Treasure Hunt in Tallaght – an interactive quiz using your mobile phone and your wits. Solve the clues and visit areas of interest in Tallaght. – all within walking distance.
Follow the event on www.southdublininnovates.ie for information on the starting locations and details of how to get involved. Clues are delivered to your mobile phone by SMS or by a GPS application....