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Dublin City Development Board // Review 2006 – 2008 | 16 creative workers and creative industries. The aim of the event was to engage influential national and local circles in Dublin with strategic thinking in relation to an inclusive, creative city, and to shape the agenda in the upcoming policy debate. Meetings were held with Dublin Employment PACT regarding their involvement in the Digital Inclusion project. Responsibility for the roll out of the project has been transferred to the dublin.ie team. Objective 3 ■■ Dublin City to be recognised as a Fairtrade City Outcome Dublin City was awarded Fair Trade status in 20th February 2008. Achieving this status resulted from the following actions. 2005 ◆◆ Dublin City Council agreed a resolution to pursue Fair Trade status on 7th November. 2006 ◆◆ Fair Trade adopted was adopted as a project by Community and Enterprise Section, Dublin City Council ◆◆ ◆◆ A steering committee was established in March 2006. Trinity College Dublin was selected as the Dublin flag ship business. 2007 ◆◆ An audit of Fair Trade goods available in the City was completed. A list of retailers that stocked Fair Trade goods was published. ◆◆ ◆◆ Dublin City’s Fairtrade website – www.dublincityfairtrade.ie – was launched First fair trade fortnight was held ◆◆ First Fairtrade Newsletter was published
Dublin City Development Board // Review 2006 – 2008 | 17 ◆◆ Fair trade was promoted in schools. A Fairtrade Information Pack was issued to all secondary schools in the Dublin City area. 14 Schools have been accredited with Fair trade status 2008 ◆◆ 25 Feb to 9th March 2008 – Fairtrade Fortnight Objective 4 ■■ ■■ To foster a culture of entrepreneurship in Dublin City. To develop a more integrated approach to supporting entrepreneurship in Dublin City Outcome Dublin City Enterprise Week 17th – 22nd November 2008. Acknowledging that Entrepreneurship and growing businesses are fast becoming more and more important for Dublin City in this new challenging economic era, Dublin City Council’s Economic Development Unit, in partnership with Dublin City Enterprise Board, organised the City’s first Enterprise week to coincide with Global Enterprise week. Events took place around the City to provide information and supports for those wishing to start or to grow their own business. Over twenty organisations participated and offered entrepreneur and enterprise services across a wide range of categories from company registration issues, tax, raising finance, training, mentoring, networking to representation services and exporting. There were also a number of networking opportunities at different times during the week where people had the opportunity to listen to different entrepreneurs and develop contacts. One of the central planks of the Enterprise week was the “Big Debate” chaired by respected broadcaster Mr. John Bowman. The event was billed as a “debate about the issues for business in Dublin City” and included Irish entrepreneurs, Mr. Jay Bourke (Cafe Bar Deli) and Mr. Martin Murray (Interactive Return); business media, Mr. Brian Carey (Sunday Times) and Mr. Marc Coleman (Newstalk) and business lobby group representative, Mark Fielding from ISME, Bank of Ireland representative, Mr. Damian Young; Global Entrepreneurship Monitor author, Ms. Paula Fitzsimons and Chairperson of Dublin City Enterprise Board, Mr. Pat Lynch. Objective 5 ■■ ■■ To examine the availability of enterprise space within Dublin City To research whether lack of suitable space is a barrier to SMEs and others locating or wanting to locate their business in the City Outcome The specific objectives set were as follows: ■■ To identify and map current enterprise units ■■ To identify target groups space needs ■■ To identify gaps in space provision ■■ To identify issues in relation to the cost of accessing space in the City and beyond the M50 ■■ To identify issues impacting on business locating within the city ■■ To identify predominant trends in developing and acquiring enterprise space ■■ To identify development trends in other city jurisdictions ■■ To identify issues relation to Planning and City Development Plan ■■ To make recommendations and identify what actions can be taken on foot of research
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