DunLaoghaireTown.ie

Digital Cooperative

Strength in numbers

The opening sentence of the executive summary of the KPMG Dún Laoghaire Town Study notes that “Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council recognises the importance of Dún Laoghaire Town as an economic hub and the county town. It is crucial that Dún Laoghaire town is sufficiently prepared to respond to the changing economic environment.”

The key stakeholders in our town centre, need to respond to the opportunity ahead by pooling our resources on one key strategic area, that of delivering and growing the communications and tech enablement of the partner organisations through a central social enterprise. This form of town centre collaboration and stakeholder upskilling is an objective in a number of government strategies and national and EU competitions and awards such as the .IE Digital Town Awards.

There are a number of stakeholder organisations in Dun Laoghaire Town centre that have the most to gain from a vibrant Dun Laoghaire, and in many ways have the most to offer in the achieving of this vibrancy. By pooling our resources and cross collaborating these organisations can target creating a partnership which can aim to be an ambitious counterpart to provide a progressive town centre counterpart to Living Streets and the Harbour developments.

This collaboration, a digital cooperative, is facilitated by the social enterprise the Dargan Institute clg, who have managed the digital assets of the town directly since 2019 and indirectly since 2016. In addition to the online awareness raising of the stakeholders goals this cooperative will help provide strength in numbers by bringing together the strengths of the members of the Coop which include:

Different businesses in the town Promote the buy local DLBA message to the membership of the Eblana Club

Members
Promote the membership opportunity of the Eblana Club

Use the web presence of DunLaoghaireTown.ie
to augment the activities of the town’s stakeholders.

Supporting our mutual goals

The objective of our coop is to create meaningful collaboration at multiple levels with the goal of driving footfall and encouraging the economic growth in our town. The members of the digital cooperative agree to reshare as appropriate each other’s content (and again where appropriate that of third parties (such as that of DLR County Council) content), to deliver campaigns that support the goals of each other’s organisations and other content that supports the goals of this digital cooperative.