Giving stakeholders the chance to have their say, a recent workshop on ‘data and information – the key to success’ was organised by EMRA on Monday the 15th of February.

Around 30 attendees from a variety of sectors the workshop provided a forum to exchange experiences and discuss different approaches to data management in Dublin Bay. Christina Kelly described the benefits of developing an integrated approach to environmental management and monitoring, Katie Goodwin and Gavin McArdle launched the DublinDashboard Dublin Bay data module, Beatrice Kelly described forthcoming Heritage viewer for the Dublin Bay area, Pauline Riordan described the Dublinked open data platform, and Trevor Alcorn described the Irish Spatial data exchange and the www.data.gov.ie open data portal.

This was followed by a discussion on strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities in relation to data in Dublin Bay and a discussion of a draft Strategic Management Framework for Dublin Bay which EMRA is producing. EMRA would like to thank all the speakers for their excellent presentations and all the attendees for their valuable feedback.