After reviewing over 9,000 proposals submitted from people in 176 countries, the judges of the Your Country Your Call competition have finally decided on the five proposals with the greatest potential to deliver ‘jobs and opportunity for Ireland.’
If
you are unfamiliar with this campaign, it is an open competition
initiated by the President’s husband, Dr. Martin McAleese, to find two
direction-changing innovations for the island of Ireland. Each winning
proposal will receive €100,000 in cash, but the proposal will then be
taken out of the hands of the proposer and developed with governmental
support into a national programme.
We are now down to the five finalists. One central plank of the campaign was to crowd-source ideas that could deliver tangible benefits for Ireland. Interestingly, only one of the proposals shortlisted was among the top fifty most supported on the YourCountryYourCall website. The proposal to ‘Make Ireland a Global Media Hub’ came in as the twentieth most supported, with support from 318 people and a discussion that amounted to 36 comments. The most popular proposal on the other hand received 1,947 expressions of support and 576 comments. The crowd clearly isn’t always right.
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Author: Brendan Hughes
