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To succeed in this increasingly interdependent world, you need more than linguistic abilities. You need the intercultural knowledge, understanding and leadership skills that come from experiences among many cultures. This is what The Scholar Ship can offer you.
The Scholar Ship. (Thanks to sharona for passing on PostgradIreland’s information on this wonderful project). A [...]

The Commission for Communications Regulation has confirmed that consultants hired to examine the possible introduction of postcodes have withdrawn from the project.
RTÉ News
Hello to non-Irish readers. We don’t have postcodes. In the metropolis of Dublin, we do…well, we have Dublins 1 through 24. Outside the city, you can quite easily send mail [...]

OK, so it’s not really cyberlaw, but it’s law and it mentions the Internet…
So, there’s this guy in New York, and he’s working for the Department of Education. A noble calling, indeed. But it turns out that they aren’t the nicest employers ever. Staff were banned from using ‘the Internet’ (they [...]

The Internet Is Evil
When Student Representation Goes Wrong…
Do you speak Yorkshire? (not a video, but still worth reading. And yes, this is deadly serious).

With thanks to B3ta and boards.ie.

Do you want a position on an ICANN committee? ICANN is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (a non-profit California-registered corporation that ‘regulates’ the Domain Name System, although it’s more complex than that), and one of the bodies that are discussed in my research. When I’ve time, I’ll put together a [...]

From Amnesty International (Irish section):
Every year, throughout the world, more than half a million people are killed by armed violence - that’s one person every minute. Every government around the world is responsible. Their lack of control on the arms trade is fuelling conflict, poverty and human rights abuses - worldwide.
The Control Arms campaign [...]

The Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) publishes quite a lot of data online, and after seeing a brief note in one of the Sundays about the Irish figures (sorry, no link), I went hunting on the ABC site to learn more about the sales of copies of UK newspapers in (Ro)Ireland. So this is [...]

A unique alliance from across the broadcasting, telecoms, technology, new media and advertising sectors is voicing its concerns about the draft Audiovisual Media Services (AMS) Directive that is currently under discussion in Brussels. The UK government has serious concerns about the draft Directive and is currently discussing these with other Member States.
The key movers in [...]

So, a friend (who will remain nameless, to protect the oh-so-innocent) called over earlier this weekend to show off his newly-installed copy of Windows Vista, which of course is due for release in … well, quite a while ago, actually. The new official dates are November 2005 for some editions and January 2006 for [...]

Lawrence Lessig is calling it “the most important and powerful book in the fields that matter most to me in the last ten years”. Amazon is selling it for £20, but there is a free PDF to download (note: this is a large file (>3mb), try individual chapters if this bothers you) simultaneously published [...]