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CyberSmarties wins Best Emerging Business 2017

CyberSmarties wins Best Emerging Business 2017 Sue O’Neill, Chair, SFA, Pat Breen TD, Minister for Employment & Small Business with Emerging New Business winner, Diarmuid Hudner, CyberSmarties.com and Oonagh Mc Cutcheon, Customer Operations Manager, IE Domain Registry, sponsor of the Emerging New Business category

CyberSmarties wins Best Emerging Business 2017

CyberSmarties wins the Best Emerging New Business 2017 at the Small Firms Association’s Small Business Awards.

Having been announced as Best Emerging New Business 2017 by Patricia Callan, SFA Director, Patricia commented “The response to the awards programme serves as a reminder that Irish small companies are resilient, putting their best foot forward and seeking recognition for their efforts”


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CyberSmarties wins

Brendan Woodage, Director of Operations. Diarmuid Hudner, CEO. Wenqian Xu, Director of IT.

The Small Firms Association offer prizes to all finalists including an exhibition stand at the SFA National Small Business Showcase in the RDS in February 2017, a strategic management masterclass weekend, as well as broad-ranging national and local media coverage, valued at €50,000. Finalists also receive five complimentary tickets to the gala prize giving ceremony which will take place in the RDS in March 2017 when the category winners and the overall winner will be announced. 

CyberSmarties, created by local Limerick businessman Diarmuid Hudner, is Irelands first social network for kids. It is a free social network currently rolling out to all primary schools which authenticates each child as a real child and provides kids with their first social networking experience within a locked down, educational and child appropriate environment.

CyberSmarties is similar to existing social networks such as Facebook. Similar to Facebook the site has like, share and commenting functions. The network is aimed at primary school aged children from the ages of 6 – 12. No adults are allowed on the site, however, school teachers act as ‘moderators’, and as a way to verify the identity of children signing up.

CyberSmarties has a proven track record in keeping kids safe online, teaching positive online behavioural habits and uses technology to promote wellbeing and positive mental health. With over 21,700 users and .0014% instances of cyber-bullying, CyberSmarties understands that the way we stop cyber-bullying in the future is to start educating children now in a way they will understand by using the technology children themselves use.

While kids are on CyberSmarties, they can chat with other children in their school, play games, learn coding, watch cartoons and other child suitable videos, read positive child appropriate news across various different reading levels, view their homework and essentially have a safe introduction to social networking within a controlled, locked down, fully monitored and safe environment without the fear of harassment or cyber-bullying.

Supported by The American Ireland Fund, Code.org and much more, CyberSmarties is 100% free and 100% Irish

Check out CyberSmarties here 

Read more on the Small Firms Association here

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