{"id":15334,"date":"2015-04-15T12:32:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T12:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=15334"},"modified":"2015-04-15T12:32:27","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T12:32:27","slug":"jim-friars-chief-executive-of-the-irish-computer-society-talks-about-tech-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=15334","title":{"rendered":"Jim Friars &#8211; Chief Executive of The Irish Computer Society talks about Tech Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Mark Finnegan talks to Jim Friars, Chief Executive of The Irish Computer Society. Jim is talking all things Tech Week.\u00a0Tech Week is the national festival of technology aimed at students, parents, and the public and takes place this year from 26th April \u2013 2nd May 2015.Tech Week provides hands-on opportunities to learn about how computing and related technology are shaping every area of life. The aim is to stimulate thinking around future opportunities for study and careers in technology, through learning in the wider areas of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects.<\/div>\n<div>More information about Tech Week can be found on the website\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.techweek.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4775\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/JimFriars.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('4775','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/JimFriars.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/JimFriars.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=15334-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/JimFriars.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"JimFriars.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 11:39 &#8212; 16.0MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Finnegan talks to Jim Friars, Chief Executive of The Irish Computer Society. Jim is talking all things Tech Week.\u00a0Tech Week is the national festival of technology aimed at students, parents, and the public and takes place this year from 26th April \u2013 2nd May 2015.Tech Week provides hands-on opportunities to learn about how computing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4776\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/JimFriars.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('4776','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/JimFriars.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/JimFriars.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=15334-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/JimFriars.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"JimFriars.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 11:39 &#8212; 16.0MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northside-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15338,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15334\/revisions\/15338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}