The Armagh Monaghan Digital Corridor Board has recently completed a five year strategy for the Digital Corridor ICT development. The vision is to develop the Armagh Moanghan Digital Corridor into a cluster of technology industries that will become a growing and major contributor to the local economy and enhance the community in the Armagh and Monaghan region. An integral part fo delivering this vision will be having the dedicated resource of a Porject Manager to drive forward this concept. The proposed project is to consolidate the existing Project Managers position for a further 2 year period to facilitate delivery of the Armagh Monaghan Digital Corridor strategy recommendation. Achievements: The Armagh Monaghan Digital Corridor’s three year strategy to drive the region’s ICT economy was a resounding success through attracting 1000 jobs to the region. Bernard Conlon who was the Business Development Manager for the project commented that the strategy implementation had achieved its key objective of further establishing technology industries within the area which would become a growing and major contributor to the local economy. AMDC is a cross-border business corridor linking thecounties of Armagh and Monaghan, through business centres known as a:tek and m:tek, located in Armagh and Monaghan respectively. These dynamic centres have some of the most advanced accommodation designed for technology businesses in Ireland.“The project has proven to very successful in the flow of companies setting up business at the a: tek and m:tek both from within and beyond the ICT sector” said Bernard. “It is an endorsement of the work and committement that has been shown by everyone involved at the Digital Corridor, that companies such as Imagine, Viatrace and HCL are prepared to invest in the region and in our facilities in such numbers.” With programmes such as the High Performance Computing resource (HPC) and the remoteworking facility we are enabling and supporting the circumstances and environment in Armagh & Monaghan in which companies can thrive. The corridor’s HPC was a pilot programme run in conjunction with Queen’s University’s NI Technology Centre and it enabled companies to utilize the resource to gain competitive advantage within manufacturing technology. Its remote working facility provided effective work, life balance initiatives for employees of blue chip companies based in Belfast and Dublin.The Armagh Monaghan Digital Corridor has some of the most advanced accommodation designed for technology businesses in Ireland and its broadband 100MB link is now live providing both a:tek and m:tek based companies with superior access to the internet and cheaper leased-line rates to the republic and m:tek will no longer have to pay high rates for data connections to the UK.