Dominic Byrne is Assistant Head of Information Technology with Fingal County Council and has 20 years of experience in IT. He is responsible for managing the provision of IT services in Fingal and his current interests include Open Data, Open Government, Social Media, and Knowledge Management. He is responsible for Fingal Open Data which was the first Open Government Data website in Ireland. He is also a member of the Dublinked management team and the National Open Data Working Group. In addition, he is a member of the Digital Dublin Forum which is currently working on a Digital Strategy for the Dublin Region.