Digital Agenda Funding

Project Status: Completed

Project Leader: Colm Mc Colgan

EU Programme: INTERREG III A

Project Budget: €531,720

Start Date: Sep, 1998

Finish Date: Jun, 2000

The aim of the project is to:

Improve the capacity of the region’s current job creating sectors to survive the “Digital Age”

Specific objectives are to:

Create high technology ventures and sustainable jobs within the region
Develop a system of regional innovation to stimulate the growth of an indigenous knowledge based sector.
Improve the attraction of the region as a location for information technology based inward investment.

Donegal, Ireland
ERNACT Network(Lead Partner)

Derry & Strabane, United Kingdom
Derry City & Strabane District Council(Partner)

Donegal, Ireland
Donegal County Council(Partner)

Limavady, United Kingdom

Limavady Borough Council (Partner)

The overall aim of the Digital Economy Project in the Northwest Ireland region was:
To exploit the economies of scale achievable by working on a cross border axis to improve the capacity of the North West Ireland area to embrace the digital economy and to attract and create sustainable high technology ventures and jobs.

The project would focus on (and the money would be spent on) enabling six sectors in the four council areas (local authorities, health boards, 3rd level education, tourism, retail, SME's) to face up to the challenges posed to them by the Internet and electronic business. In effect, it is an initiative to give the North West a competitive edge in attracting high technology inward investment (I.e., the North West as a centre of excellence for Information Technology).