SPEAKERS
Helen McQuillan
Dublin Institute of Technology
Helen McQuillan is a postdoctoral researcher in Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) researching digital inclusion, young people and new media, and gender and ICT. She is a member of the EU KIDS online research network. Helen has been involved in digital inclusion research and practice for almost ten years. She is a member of the e-inclusion advisory group for the government Information Society Policy Unit and research advisor to DIT’s Digital Communities programme and Limerick City Community ICT steering group. She was a senior research consultant for the Information Society Commission, Ireland, and researched and co-authored ‘eInclusion: expanding the Information Society in Ireland’ (2003). From 2003 – 2006, she was research manager for England’s €800 million local government e-government programme, and was a strategic advisor on community engagement and e-inclusion. Previously, she was research manager with Ennis Information Age Town, a flagship information society initiative in Ireland.