GPFG: We will deliver 100MBs for all second-level schools by 2012

thebman · 10-10-2009 02:30PM #1

So from the green program for government (revised version).

http://www.greenparty.ie/en/government/renewed_programme_for_government

We will deliver 100MBs for all second-level schools by 2012 and make broadband available to every house in the country by 2012, subject to European Stimulus Funding.

adding more:

Finish Project Kelvin broadband, We will invest in public transport, new broadband infrastructure and more energy
efficient buildings because it makes economic as well as environmental sense

We will support private sector investment and, wherever appropriate, invest in
our own communications infrastructure to ensure that Ireland has the
necessary domestic and international broadband connectivity to compete as a
trading digital economy.

Above bit from PDF available on RTE on greens PFG. I just searched for broadband in it and pasted what I found.

ok found more will past here:

Championing ICT Innovation in the Public and Private Sectors
· We will appoint a Chief Information Officer (CIO) to provide leadership for
the development of information and communications technology (ICT) and
other relevant technologies within and outside Government. The CIO will
report directly to the Taoiseach. The CIO will advise the Government on how
to take a proactive, leading role in championing IT innovation and
development externally as part of the building of the Smart Economy. The
CIO will assist public sector modernisation by driving changes in government
business processes and implementing improvements in how government
communicates with its citizens through ICT. The CIO will take a crossdepartmental
and agency leadership role in driving the e-government
programme

We will provide a ‘One-Stop-Shop’ to provide open access to state-owned
fibre-optic ducting and to ensure fibre is provided from the start in new
housing developments

We will implement a new system for national post and location codes to allow
improvements in e-commerce and other applications.

Thats it, if you see something twice or in wrong order, its probably my fault :P

PogMoThoin · 10-10-2009 06:30PM

What the Greens call "broadband to every home" is really midband which IrelandOffline don't accept as broadband. They've wasted enough money, time for them to leave

Galen · 11-10-2009 07:50AM

And they can take that Fianna Fail rabble with them.

Sponge Bob · 11-10-2009 11:46AM

Having checked I only found one new item in the whole thing.

It had been announced that seconday level schools would get 100mbits . This thing confirmed that the project would finish by 2012 ( the first tranche was tendered early this year) . Bar the completion date the entire document is utterly bereft of any vague policy or concrete commitment that was not already in the public domain . The greens spent friday night copying and pasting their 2008 announcements into it.

Even worse , there is no integration whatsoever between Ryans Fibre To The Fishes project and the second level schools around Galway Bay ( about 8 of them) . The muppets are progressing these as two separate projects . In two or three cases the fibre to the fishes scheme passes with 2km of some of these schools.

nothing smart and nothing green about any of it

bealtine · 12-10-2009 08:45AM

"Knowledge Society
We are committing budgetary support for the six priority areas in the Knowledge Society Report:
1.Deploy the new exemplar fibre-optic technologies on state communications infrastructure to further advance its development;
2.Establish an International Content Services Centre in cooperation between the Digital Hub and IDA;
3.The roll-out of Smart Grid technologies such as smart metres and electric vehicles;
4.Progress remote sensory technology such as the Smart Bay project in Galway Bay;
5.Introduce ‘Work Flow’ smart commuting real time transport information systems;
6.Develop Ireland as an international location for Energy Efficient Data Centres and cloud computing."

More copy'n'paste from previous documents and absolutely nothing new there.
At this stage we've heard it all before so how about some real action points and timetables that would allow us to achieve these goals?

rob808 · 12-10-2009 12:28PM

bealtine wrote: »

"Knowledge Society
We are committing budgetary support for the six priority areas in the Knowledge Society Report:
1.Deploy the new exemplar fibre-optic technologies on state communications infrastructure to further advance its development;
2.Establish an International Content Services Centre in cooperation between the Digital Hub and IDA;
3.The roll-out of Smart Grid technologies such as smart metres and electric vehicles;
4.Progress remote sensory technology such as the Smart Bay project in Galway Bay;
5.Introduce ‘Work Flow’ smart commuting real time transport information systems;
6.Develop Ireland as an international location for Energy Efficient Data Centres and cloud computing."

More copy'n'paste from previous documents and absolutely nothing new there.
At this stage we've heard it all before so how about some real action points and timetables that would allow us to achieve these goals?

The problem with that not once did they say fixing our broadband infrastructure that in shambles we have the slowiest broadband in rural areas in the EU broadband over price for what were getting we have no broadband plan the uk will have adsl+2 all over the uk by 2011 we have broadband all over ireland with the max speed 2mb wow why uk going foward we are going backward were are already 3 year behind now were going to be 6 year well done green party and finna fail and of course eircom

GPFG: We will deliver 100MBs for all second-level schools by 2012

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