Mr. James Whelton:

In respect of volunteers, I am happy to discuss things further afterwards. There is a lack of skilled IT professionals in certain areas who can volunteer. People with technical skills and programmers would often come to the cities which again relates to the global issue of depopulation. While starting with a small number of technical volunteers, one of the core beliefs is getting kids to teach other kids. Once a kid gets to a sufficient level of knowledge and ability, he or she will teach the other kids in his or her club, which will create an ever-growing cycle.

We are seeing this in Cork where there are 14 year olds teaching 12 year olds. It has become a great system and frees up the time of volunteers to help other bases to set up. It is an issue we have noted. We are trying to address areas that do not have volunteers or which have a large amounts of volunteers. As we are getting ready to move into Africa to start teaching in developing economies, we have been examining the delivering of content and help on Skype, etc., and looking at the work of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The children have a programme. As their economies develop, they will have a technological boom from which they will have the skills to benefit. We are considering how to deliver content and provide for teaching in remote areas to spawn similar clubs there. I will also be happy to speak with Senators afterwards.