Strategy Implementation & Stakeholder Engagement

This is a plain text version of the Chapter 10 summary of the "Digital Ireland – Connecting our People, Securing our Future" report. Read the full report.

To ensure we deliver on our overall ambition to strengthen our position as a digital leader, we will put a sharper focus on delivery and impact across all areas of the Strategy.

Regular, robust progress tracking will form a central part of delivery mechanisms. This will focus on outcomes and the impact of work programmes and will reflect a whole-of-government approach to ensure coherence and consistency across Government.

Implementation will be driven from the centre of Government, reporting to the Cabinet Committee on the Economy, Trade and Competitiveness. This work will be supported by the Senior Officials Group on Digital Issues, chaired by the Department of the Taoiseach to enhance coherence across the system. This reflects the priority that the Government places on accelerating progress across our digital agenda.

Progress reporting will be open and transparent, and we will prioritise flexibility and agility, with regular reviews of the Strategy and deliverables over the lifetime of the Strategy, to ensure we remain on track to achieve our goals, and our vision.

We will review our domestic digital regulatory structures to ensure they are fit-for purpose in this evolving regulatory landscape. We will also strengthen coordination of digital policy files across Government, to maximise domestic coherence and cross-sectoral impact analysis on the development of policy positions on digital regulation to enable Ireland to influence and shape critical global digital issues.

Strengthening and maximising the impact of stakeholder engagement will be a central part of our approach. We will build on existing stakeholder engagement fora and structures to deepen our existing partnerships, and to foster new partnerships to enhance delivery and impact across all areas of our digital ambitions. Regular, collaborative stakeholder engagement across a wide representative spectrum will involve engaging with industry, digital regulators, and wider stakeholders.

Such an approach will enable a rich, diverse, expert and inclusive range of views, feedback and input, which is essential to ensure our approach to delivering on our digital ambitions remains on track.