Tech Weekly visits Dublin to check out the thriving local startup scene. The tech community has benefited from assistance through development agencies such as Enterprise Ireland that help to foster and fund new tech businesses. Ireland has also benefited from the presence of tech giants such as Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, HP, Dell and others in the country.
But will all this success be put into jeopardy? Ireland has just accepted a €85bn bailout from the International Monetary Fund – will talented developers emigrate as their financial situations worsen? Will the tech giants that were attracted by favourable corporation tax rates leave the country if the government has to raise the rate? It would appear not however, and most entrepreneurs in the programme were upbeat about future prospects.
Charles Arthur and Jemima Kiss tour the city, meeting up with Enterprise Ireland to hear how it helps fund and foster the country's new digital businesses. We also meet Joe Drumgoole of Cloudsplit, who tells us how punishing the cost of failure is in Ireland, and how startups shouldn't be worried – just learn from the mistakes.
Dylan Collins of Jolt discusses Ireland's success as a hub for online gaming, and his role as a mentor for other startups, and Rob Martin of Infacta explains how Ireland's infrastructure such as broadband has been challenging for his business.
Plus we get some interesting projects to pitch us their ideas at a listener meetup.
You can find links to the startups and projects mentioned on the Guardian Technology in Ireland page.
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