A united front

Collaboration is playing a key role in Cork’s IT evolution, with businesses and local authorities working together

Ruth Buckley, head of IT for Cork City Council and Ronan Murphy, founder of Smarttech and chair of it@cork. Picture: John Allen

Joined-up thinking is at the heart of Cork’s development as an IT hub. The city and county councils work together alongside business stakeholders to bring Cork forward. For Ronan Murphy, founder of Smarttech and chair of it@cork, this unity is critical to success.

“We’ve got the public sector and it@cork, which is a non-profit, working together. An over-arching document, the Smart Gateway project, has been put together to drive this forward. It’s about ...