On Friday 19th of April Eoin Costello, project director DigitalHQ, launched our latest book 'The Digital Growth Mindset ' for small businesses at the 5th OECD Digital4SME roundtable in Paris.

Is your community ready for the challenges and opportunities of the next five, ten, or twenty years?

Ireland has achieved remarkable things over the last century, and now we’ve built a stable, resilient economy with achievements in health, quality of life, and life span. 

When I look back over my life (yes, I've reached a point where I do that occasionally) I realise that I've always tried to leverage the positive benefits of technology to make things better in the things that I’ve done.

Today, Wednesday 16th is Ireland’s inaugural ‘Digital First’ Day, a nationwide initiative to tackle the digital divide at all levels of our society and to advance economic and social regional development across the country.

DigitalHQ, a founding member of the Digital Ireland Network has successfully completed the launch of the inaugural ‘Digital First’ Day with support from the Department of Rural & Community Development’s ARISE Strand 1 fund.

Minister for Rural and Community Development, Heather Humphreys, TD today, 5th October, announced a range of flagship events taking place on November 16th as part of Ireland’s inaugural ‘Digital First’ Day.

Digitalisation & Rural Ireland - The Figures - 96% of SMEs are Micro with fewer than 10 employees and by business demography are the largest form of business unit in rural counties (source - Seanad Public Consultation Committee Report on Small and Medium Sized Businesses in Ireland 2019).

Ireland’s first ever ‘Digital First’ Day will take place on November 16th 2022 with the goal of putting the power of digital to work in communities across the country, by creating a national conversation about the benefits of digital growth to people, organisations and communities in towns and villages across Ireland.

The .IE Digital Town Awards took place yesterday with awards for 7 categories to address digital enhancement and adoption in Ireland.

Looking for top talent? Why not move your business to Dun Laoghaire then. There are enough digital and tech people living locally to turn Dun Laoghaire into a digital, technology and creative hub for the region.