Your Country, Your Call Winners Announced
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Congratulations to the two winners of Your Country, Your Call, Neil Leyden and father and son duo Colm Mac Fhlannachadha and Cianán Clancy. The two proposals will now go into a development phase and each will be supported by an advisory group and a development fund.
Neil Leyden's global media hub proposal was the first winner to be announced. The proposal sets out to create an Irish Content Industry Association which would then drive the development of a cultural and creative quarter. A media park would be established to attract global content industries. Employment in the region of 45,000 jobs is envisaged by the proposal.
The data island strategy proposed by Cianán Clancy and Colm MacFhlannachadha involves developing green “mega data centres” and developing an international innovation area. The plan aims to place Ireland in a world leading position in areas such as cloud computing, secure information storage and online gaming development. It is believed that the strategy could generate at least 4,000 new jobs.
These ideas are highly innovative and ones that Ireland needs to pursue to remain competitive on the international stage, and to differentiate ourselves with specific advantages in this field. We look forward to seeing them move to the next stage!
