Universal design informs high-usability, accessible eGovernment service Can you build an eGovernment website in about four months to collect millions of euros from the public? Yes you can, and you can make it highly usable and accessible at the same time... and  bilingual too. That was the message from Claire Gilligan, Assistant Director of the Local Government Computer Services Board (LGCSB), at ...
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Senior archivist Catriona Crowe and her colleagues in the National Archives should be feted by Ireland’s many (in fact, too many) web award schemes for the runaway success of the 1911 census project. The digital archive is gaining serious traffic. Start typing “1911 Census” into a Google search box and once the first digit is typed, the scale of ...
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How does eGovernment fare in Ireland after today's publication of the "Bord Snip Nua" report? The word "eGovernment" isn't mentioned in Volume I of the "Report of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes" (to give it its official name). "Internet" doesn’t get a mention in these main findings either. This absence of eGovernment and any major internet-based initiatives may ...
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