Dublin City Council’s plans to deliver free city Wi-Fi have been dashed by an EU ruling that the project is in breach of state aid rules.
The Sinn Fein Dublin MEP Mary Lou McDonald is reported as saying that ‘the decision is another example of EU policy making negatively impacting on member states national interests’ Clearly the decision is something of a blow!
Connecting Bristol presented our own work in this area to a range of Dublin City councillors and officers some time ago. The Dublin Institute of Technology arranged the exchange and it is good to see that other Dublin programmes appear to be progressing well. For example, the ICING project, which is looking at the real time reporting of street repairs and problems using accessible technologies.
