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HP today announced that it is supporting "Your Country, Your Call", an initiative to encourage innovative proposals which can help foster economic renewal in Ireland. HP is a key contributor providing financial and in-kind services, including innovation expertise, to enable the initiative to gather ideas from Ireland and around the world.

"Your Country, Your Call" aims to find two transformational proposals that will enable the Irish economy to grow, employment to be created and prosperity to flourish. With a prize fund of EUR200,000 and Mary McAleese, President of Ireland, as its Patron, the initiative spans a broad range of categories from sports and arts to communications and technology.

Speaking about the announcement, Martin Murphy, Managing Director, HP Ireland and member of the Your Country Your Call Steering Group, said "Your Country, Your Call is a collaborative initiative designed to foster future economic success for Ireland. HP is delighted to support this exciting new project. We are proud to have been involved from conception of what started out as a conversation among a small group of people and has evolved to this great competition. We believe that this is an inspiring and timely initiative, and we are proud to contribute, providing company support and association"

The competition was launched on 17th February 2010 and is open to anyone with an idea for Irish development. Full entry details are available at http://www.yourcountryyourcall.com.

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we entered the competition your country your call..!!
written by PETE FOX, March 23, 2010

i have to agree with you .. the competition started with great enthusiam to help the irish people and the irish economy get back on its feet.. some good ideas and some points of view..!! we had our own idea removed through spam etc and re-entered with idea 3429.. basically we do have the job creation business to employ 1 million irish.. we are so far out in the wings that we have no chance of being seen and as you pointed out the most supported will not create any jobs and not solve economic problems.great drug awareness blog and forum and helping many sufferers. similar to the venus project idea.. great mass organisational support from the members of the movement .. no interest in the competition just a membership and awareness drive that probably netted 10,000 new members from ireland.. so the competition might be remembered for doing just that and being very effective at it.. just a thought have a look at my ideas if you get a chance..?? thanks pete fox

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