"Reclaiming our Past is the key to our Future" (Prof Mary Rose Grenville)

VOXLABS® VISION STATEMENT:
To tap into our rich Heritage stream to access its core values that were preserved in our culture and handed down through the ages to us all, values that were protected at great cost - despite an Irish spirit that was once stricken through colonisation and suppression for the centuries- yet preserved so that these values can now be passed onto the generations that follow - not alone for people in Ireland, but for peoples throughout the world in a renewed spirit of cultural exchange, as the world finally moves beyond materialism as an end goal in itself and instead embrace our respective Cultural treasures.

Our Model's Vision for tomorrow is born of an extraordinary and cherished Irish Past, with its deep traditions and religious convictions - a vision derived from being fortunate enough to have the experience of being born and brought up in rural Ireland, on the land, in an Ireland with its fabulously rich cultural heritage. Most evident from the monasteries left behind by its its wonderful Missionaries (Caring for others - its Nurses/ Doctors, Lawyers, Teachers & Religious) of yesteryear, in famous books like the Book of Kells. and in a culture preserved and brought to life again by its Diaspora in two Famines, by its Great Irish Writers, and more recently in Music & Dance -some of the very many landmarks left behind to be seen and cherished wherever you travel today.This is our gift from the past to today, one that no doubt holds the key to our future.

That door to cultural diversity was opened to us by Emigrants and Immigrants leaving and returning in their 100,000's along the tracks & paths laid by our forefathers, the routes that our Missionaries and then Diaspora first took. Tomorrow we will trade with their Homeshores like Philipinnes & Asia, India, Mexico & Latin America, Africa and of course with USA & Canada  as well as UK and right across Europe - where Migrants and Irish Diaspora alike will be the glue logic in making the connections necessary for inter-community dialogue, appreciation, growing respect and then two-way trading, for the benefit of all; this time working together across borders and cultures in co-created enterprises and collaboration. This will be aided and abetted by the lasting benefits from contributions made to the world in recent decades through Outsourced & Offshoring in Ireland - as well as through our global Retailers, global Investors & global Charity workers, as they increasingly spread throughout the world today - and today being carried on today under paramaters of VoxLabs Mission Statement.  

These values are nowhere more evident than can be seen in that famous work, the Book of Kells, dating from c.800AD in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - and which has long been shared with the World; or visible in a past that can be seen from the Ceide Fields dating back to 3500BC, or ancient Newgrange burial grounds that stretch back to days of Egyptian Pyramids. In a blaze of more recent creativity, our recent cultural phenomenon has been reignited and brought to the furthest reaches of the world in form of Music & Dance of U2/ Bono, the wonder of Moya Doherty's Riverdance & Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance, the traditional music of Chieftans; and of course by our many Irish stars of screen, stage and stadium including the enterprise of Michael O'Leary's Ryanair and retired DutyFree Shopper king and philantrophist Chuck Feeney; in our former President, the great orator & also elder of Africa Mary Robinson; in former Free Trade chief Peter Sutherland and the late brilliant writer John O'Donohue - to name but a few. This latent mix, this cross combination inspired the creation of next generation thinking, among them the fruits of VoxLabs® as rooted in 1991, fuelled as it was only by the initial belief that 'from small acorns, great oak trees grow'; focused on MSME's as it is and our IPR protected Dispenser system; which grew year upon year into a full blown vision that went on to embrace the whole idea of creating an independent next generation Communitarian Co-op Model for all - one driven in a spirit of partnership with Ireland & its Missionary Culture Corridors - one that could be shared by and for MSME's, Cooperatives, Diversity Employers, Consulates, Colleges and Social Causes and Movements the world over, shared benefits for everyone involved.

Vox Franchise® then will next lead us to embrace the whole idea of using that independent Communitarian Co-op Model, born as it was of what it meant to have grown up 'on the land' and been educated in Rural Ireland, among a farming and religious community, and families that inspired us to do better through providing us with an education they never had; to understand that our past had no-hierarchies as my late mother always cherished; that cooperatives were the true toolbox for building our communities, as my late father always firmly believed; and of course that when you are fortune enough to be born on the land, it never leaves you, it teaches you everything you need to survive. We learned that Culture was more important than Currency in the world. And our Teachers showed us how language was the door to both preservation and understanding of what it means to be Irish, and how to embrace every other Culture - Culture being that which makes us all unique. We learned how genealogy, our family tree, teaches us so much about who we are, where we come from and what values were handed on to us, often unseen - so that in turn we can see our future pathway as individuals and as a people; and to appreciate the sheer over-riding value of books in finding our way. With all its inherited values from the great Irish & Celtic heritage that gave such profound sanctuary so freely to the world for hundreds of years - whether as missionaries led by Doctors & Nurses, Lawyers, Teachers, Religious or simply as enterprising diaspora people who just cared enough to do, who took the risks that are the measure of life itself. It was all about people then, and VoxLabs returned to those precious values again today to point one way into the future for all of us, together.

The evidence of that past is preserved around the world in many far away places - such as the Missions of the Far East, and Africa, in the street names of San Francisco, among the fruitpickers stretching from California to Florida along the Mexican Border, and which south of that border is memorialised every September as the San Patricios and as town names in Mexico - but especially in the many Monasteries left behind by our monks, as so well recounted in the annals of Thomas Cahill with his bestseller book: "How the Irish Saved Civilisation", among them recalling the treasure trove of books preserved by those monks after the fall of the Roman Empire, including the Book of Kells. Atop all of that, Ireland produced a host of Great Writers that won Nobel Prizes for Literature down through the years - from William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett to the great Poet of today, Seamus Heaney. All this rich and famous heritage was cherished and handed down to us through the centuries in the written word of our Gaelic language, but also by the great storytellers, in our music and by word of mouth rather than the monuments with which our UK neighbours are familiar with today. Today at VoxLabs, in a world amidst a rapid but great  transformation lies immense opportunity, one we can continue to discover from within ourselves, helped by that great understanding which we have inherited from that past to enable us to play a Social Marketplace - leading us to recreate a new future for not just our own people but also that of disadvantaged people worldwide whose journey we appreciate and often shared - through once again reclaiming the non-hierarchical and cooperative values of our past and together with our fellow World E-Citizens implement these lessons in a spirit of compassion and enlightened self-interest for all people of the world in a true cultural exchange. That VoxLabs Vision for Ireland. Thats where VoxLabs begins its Journey into the New World.