US trade mission for IT firms

BUDDING technology entrepreneurs and small hi-tech and internet businesses in Cork are being offered a chance to show their wares on a trade mission to Chicago next year.

Cork County Council and Bord Gáis Networks have teamed up with IT specialists it@Cork and Barlogue Consultancy Services to offer a €3,000 prize to participate in a council IT trade mission to the US in early 2012.

Entitled Innovation That Matters, the primary focus of the initiative is to promote technology products and services offered by companies in Cork.