David believes society is now moving so fast with regards to technology, that if we don’t get on that train and get involved, we’re going to be left behind. The National Broadband Plan is in motion, trying to get everybody on-line and now selected towns all over Ireland are being piped with incredibly fast broadband. But what’s the point if people aren’t using it? Or don’t even know what to do with it?

This landmark series for RTÉ One will examine how this Island on the edge of Europe is answering these questions. While spending time with David Puttnam, Micheál O’Muircheartaigh – whose new best friend is his laptop, with teachers, elderly groups, students, families and small businesses, we get to closely examine the challenges and success stories that are driving this discussion.

Each of the four episodes handles a major theme; from the efforts being made to bring the huge non-liner community into the digital world, to the use of new technology in our education system, and from the changes it brings to daily family life to the impact of the introduction of high speed broadband to David Puttnam’s home town of Skibbereen and how it has become a blueprint for rural regeneration that can be shared with other towns around Ireland and abroad.

A Wildfire Films production for RTÉ One, made with the BAI Sound & Vision Fund.