Public Sector Remix IT Vendor Capability


This survey seeks to identify vendors with capabilities to offer free software desktop supply, implementation, training and support services. 

The public sector in New Zealand is following other public agencies around the world in looking for ways to reduce the cost of desktop computing.  A desktop based on free open source software offers agencies the benefits of Software Freedom — choice, flexibility, independence, and control. The Public Sector Remix project seeks to demonstrate the viability of free software for core desktop functionality and for services such as document management, mail and calendar. A number of central, regional and local government agencies are working together to run trials using free software for common desktop tasks.

This survey is designed to find out what free software desktop resources and services New Zealand companies can provide, what free software projects these companies participate in, and their track records of providing desktop support services to small, medium and large public sector organisations. The survey's purpose is to gather evidence of market capability. No service procurement will take place.

The New Zealand Open Source Society and the School of Information Management are facilitating the Public Sector Remix project on behalf of participating agencies. The results of this research into market capability will be shared with these agencies and may be presented at conferences such as GOVIS or published as articles in professional or industry journals. Only aggregate data will be used in any presentations or publications that result from this research; no individuals or organisations will be named. Participation is voluntary and you are implying consent to participate by completing and submitting this online survey. The survey has received ethical approval from the School of Information Management Human Ethics Committee.

It should take you up to 45 minutes to complete the survey. Some questions may also require you to gather information from your colleagues before you can answer the questions in full. The data will be stored in a password-protected file for up to two years, after which it will be deleted. Any versions of the data created for further analysis by others will have all identifying information removed. If you have any questions about the survey,  please contact Brenda Chawner, brenda.chawner@vuw.ac.nz. For more information about the Public Sector Remix project, please contact John Rankin, john.rankin@affinity.co.nz.


There are 30 questions in this survey.
  A note on privacy
This survey is anonymous.
The record kept of your survey responses does not contain any identifying information about you unless a specific question in the survey has asked for this. If you have responded to a survey that used an identifying token to allow you to access the survey, you can rest assured that the identifying token is not kept with your responses. It is managed in a separate database, and will only be updated to indicate that you have (or haven't) completed this survey. There is no way of matching identification tokens with survey responses in this survey.		  

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