Proposed association for the Irish digital media industry

I attended an inaugural dinner last Tuesday for a proposed new association to represent those in the interactive digital content / media delivery and consumption space (thanks to Paul Walsh for organising, and to Microsoft / Blacknight for sponsoring). I was happy to meet some new people and to talk to many familiar faces at Jaipur (see Paul Campbell's headshots).

As both an academic and a some-time developer, I was keen to see how third-level institutions and students could benefit from such an organisation, and I was also interested to find out how content providers such as boards.ie could represent their interests to other members, including mobile services and legislators. But I also tried to nail down in some manner what domain this association would target (ignoring the whole "name" issue): was it mobile content, web content, broadcast content, and was there a division or an overlap with other representative groups (IIA, etc.)? I didn't get an exact response from anyone but I think this will evolve in the coming weeks...

More reports from Maryrose Lyons, Paul Campbell, Joe Drumgoole, Dennis Deery, and Paul Walsh himself.