Skills shortages are a growing problem and Bigger, Better, Faster (Saturday, 9.30 a.m., RTE1) looks at how employers are creating new ways of providing job-related training and personal development opportunities for their workers.
Dot.what (Monday, 8.30 p.m., RTE1) meets business people, communities and individuals in Ennis, Ireland's Information Age town, to assess how the project has changed the way they do business and live their lives.
Panorama - Cyber Attack! (Monday, 10.00 p.m., BBC1) says the Internet once heralded as the brave new world is, in fact, a dangerous place. It investigates "script kiddies" who create viruses and "crackers" who break into computers for criminal gain. The programme shows how a Russian teenager stole 300,000 credit cards and held a company ransom in the first major case of computer blackmail. And in San Francisco, members of anarchic hacker group, Cult of the Dead Cow, demonstrate how it can hack into your computer.
Deciphering telephone bills can be a daunting task and Streetwise (Thursday, 8,00 p.m., RTE1) meets one confused consumer attempting to make sense of mobile phone charges.
Have car designers managed to come up with the perfect family product? According to Clarkson's Car Years - Family Car 2000 (Thursday, 9.00 p.m., BBC2), it must be "cheap, economical, fast, fun to drive, small, handy, safe and spacious, and what's more it absolutely cannot cost more than £15,000". Demanding spec.
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