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Place Your Bets: Integrated ticketing in Dublin by IBM, over budget by how much?

22/09/2008

Times are tough so we can’t be completely screwed to the wall these days, only partially. Traditionally in Ireland we go over budget by multiples, but I don’t think IBM would get away with that with this one.

However, going over budget by less an 100% in Ireland would probably result in IBM being bullied in the playground, so I’m betting on 100% over budget, plus or minus 10%. What’s your estimate?

ENN: IBM is to develop and implement an infrastructure for an Integrated Ticketing System ITS across all public transport in the greater Dublin area. The tech heavyweight was chosen by the Railway Procurement Agency RPA to develop and roll out an e-payment system to enable commuters to use a single pre-paid smart card for travel on all buses, trains, trams and coaches in the city. The integrated IBM back-office system will provide ticket and smart card management, central reconciliation and settlement services to all public transport providers. The system is part of Ireland’s “Transport 21” project. Work on the project will begin immediately and a phased deployment of the system will start in late 2009. Financial details of the contract were not revealed.

5 laptops stolen from HSE this year

19/09/2008

More uncrypted laptops, this time with health information on them. How many more do Gov.ie need before they put laws in place to require encryption, immediate notification, etc?

Irish Examiner: FIVE laptops have been stolen from the Health Service Executive since the beginning of this year, the Irish Examiner has learned.

Confidential details of patients with lung disease, patients’ surgery, their diagnoses, treatment and other personal details were contained on some of the stolen laptops.

None of the five laptops were encrypted.

Health chiefs are to begin notifying patients and clients over the coming days about missing data on two of the laptops, more than two months after they were stolen. These two laptops were taken together in July this year in a HSE office in Mullingar.

Foot.ie Longlisted for Irish Web Awards

16/09/2008

No kudos deserved, I nominated it myself. It’s been around for a long time, I reckon it’s due something.

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I was longlisted personally for a Netvisionary, but I have no idea why so I reckon that’s about as far as it’ll go! Thanks for the nomination by the way, you strange, strange person!

BBC’s The Box

10/09/2008

BBC News: We have painted and branded a BBC container and bolted on a GPS transmitter so you can follow its progress all year round as it criss-crosses the globe. The Box will hopefully reach the US, Asia, the Middle East , Europe and Africa and when it does BBC correspondents will be there to report on who’s producing goods and who’s consuming them.

My Wordle

10/09/2008

Doscovered via this article, with accompanying Wordles for the RNC and DMC speeches. I love that “like” features, although I can’t quite understand why “spend” is my most popular word on Verbo.se. How shallow am I? Like.

My Wordle

What Your Global Neighbors Are Buying

10/09/2008

Interesting visualisation of spending. I was surprised by the Electronics stat for Ireland, must be just my peer group.

New York Times: How people spend their discretionary income – the cash that goes to clothing, electronics, recreation, household goods, alcohol – depends a lot on where they live. People in Greece spend almost 13 times more money on clothing as they do on electronics. People living in Japan spend more on recreation than they do on clothing, electronics and household goods combined. Americans spend a lot of money on everything.

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