Businesses across Galway and the region are giving their support to SeaFest 2017, with festival activities extending from Galway Harbour to The Latin Quarter and Salthill. SeaFest 2017 is Ireland’s national maritime festival and will include a variety of marine-themed activities and attractions to celebrate the sea from 30 June to 2 July 2017.For the […]
The WDC made its submission on Ireland 2040 – Our Plan: National Planning Framework yesterday. The Issues and Choices paper covered a wide range of topics from national planning challenges to sustainability, health, infrastructure and the role of cities and towns. A key element of the paper considered the future in a “business as […]
The Western Development Commission (WDC) has published its latest Policy Briefing WDC Policy Briefing No.7 e-Working in the Western Region: A Review of the Evidence, which is now available for download at the following link here. e-Work is a method of working using information and communication technology in which the work is not bound to […]
More e-Working possible with the National Broadband Plan One in four broadband users in rural Ireland use the internet at home in relation to their work. That is according to a new WDC Policy Briefing e-Working in the Western Region – A Review of the Evidence, published today. e-Working means using information and communication technology […]
Western Development Commission FREED project Invitation to Tender,€30,000 available to support Energy Innovations The Western Development Commission (WDC) are a partner in the FREED Project, established to support the development of innovation in energy technologies currently unavailable within the Northern Periphery & Artic regions, which runs until the end of 2018. This will be […]
On 31 January, the WDC was invited to give a presentation to officials of the Department of Social Protection working across the Western Region. The objective was to give an overview of the WDC’s analysis of data across a range of socio-economic issues. Analysing regional data provides information on the areas for which we are […]
2017 – Contract Signing and Build Commencement 2017 is the year when contracts are to be awarded to one or two telecommunications companies to rollout a high speed broadband network as part of the much awaited National Broadband Plan. For those companies and citizens across regional and rural Ireland trying to operate with very basic […]
Happy New Year to all our WDC Insights blog readers! As we start into 2017 this is a good time to reflect on what we’ve done over the last 12 months. 2016 was a busy year for the Western Development Commission’s Policy Analysis team and this infographic summarises some of our key work throughout the […]
For the year end the WDC policy analysis team has produced an infographic of the Western Region highlighting key statistics and important elements that contribute to the economy and life of the region. We have included population and population changes for our seven counties (on a handy little map reminding you of where we are) […]
Feeling overwhelmed by all the data and analytics from your social media and website? How can you tell who’s genuinely interested and who’s just browsing? How do you know if your online promotion and paid posts/tweets are effective? The Western Development Commission (WDC), through ‘a creative momentum project’, is organising a free seminar in Castlebar […]
Last week the WDC published two new WDC Insights publications. They were both based on our analysis of the CSO’s Business Demography 2014 data which measures active enterprises in the business economy.[1] The publications were: WDC Insights: Enterprise Profile of the Western Region WDC Insights: Enterprise in Western Counties In a previous blog, I outlined […]
Sligo’s Reddin Designs, Roscommon-based Black Hole Studio, Happy Marketing & Media from Castlebar and Letterkenny’s DNK Media Productions were among ten creative companies from Ireland, Sweden, Iceland and Finland supported to attend the Digital DNA @ The Planetarium conference last week in Armagh. ‘Digital DNA was an excellent event with a strong focus on innovation […]
