Open Standards NZ Co-signers

The undersigned have all agreed that the New Zealand government should create a level playing field for software by mandating that all software procurement, particularly of commercial-off-the-shelf software, only considers software complying with open standards that are vendor-neutral, royalty-free and unencumbered by patents.

Where no relevant open standard exists, the government should undertake to develop suitable open standards, building on those already available elsewhere.

The goal is for software suppliers to the NZ government to compete to meet government-specified open standards rather than competing to set their own proprietary standard as is currently common practise.

# Name Organisation Comment Submitted
81 Stephen Harlow 28 Feb 2017 11:22
82 Lachlan Wimsett 11 Dec 2016 18:17
83 David Nind 21 Nov 2016 22:24
84 Steven Ellis In order for any Govt to maintain or reduce their IT costs it is critical that Open Standards are adopted or you continue to be locked into expensive proprietary approaches that carry a high end of life cost. 21 Nov 2016 13:08
85 Monica Corbett Whattam 11 Nov 2016 18:06
86 Brent Wood 9 Nov 2016 11:54
87 Danny Adair 2 Nov 2016 15:26
88 Robert Fromont 15 Aug 2016 04:58
89 Richard Law 4 Aug 2016 17:32
90 Michael Fincham 3 Aug 2016 13:47
91 Evan Fraser 3 Aug 2016 12:40
92 Fran Firman 14 Jul 2016 09:49
93 Chris Linwood 11 Jul 2016 15:18
94 Morgan Avery 23 Jun 2016 13:58
95 Alan Falloon 9 Jun 2016 16:55
96 Mike Cowie 8 Jun 2016 20:44
97 Eion Robb 8 Jun 2016 20:43
98 Robert Collins In ICT the ability to use Free/Libre/Open source is a big competitive edge, as demonstrated by many web companies revolutionising the world today. For NZ to reap those benefits, it is essential that suppliers are able to compete on a level playing field rather than being forced to work with private "standards" which are designed to advantage their owner, rather than being a commons. Case studies that come to mind: - the UK experience - The Australian tax office submission headaches - Cost if e.g. voter registration forms were microsoft office templates 3 Mar 2016 10:35
99 Blake Burgess 2 Mar 2016 19:53
100 Shaun McGirr Need success stories to capture attention of policy makers: agency A adopted a certain open standard and look at the good it did! 9 Dec 2015 09:52
101 Jim Cheetham 16 Nov 2015 09:03
102 Donald Johnston I have experienced problems in the past with my children's school requiring assignments to be submitted in Microsoft Office format which is a non-standard format. Parents should not have any need to purchase proprietary office software when there is very good free alternative software (e.g. Libre Office) which is completely standards compliant. 15 Nov 2015 22:03
103 Nicholas Phillips Alternatively, as a very minimum, include cost of migrating data away from any tendered solution in the assessed cost of implementation of that solution. 5 Sep 2015 11:43
104 Pikiora Wylie 16 Aug 2015 21:05
105 Imogen Grace 10 Aug 2015 12:21
106 Elena Kondrateva 6 Aug 2015 23:46
107 David Stewart 5 Aug 2015 06:20
108 Robin de Haan The New Zealand Government should commit to open standards and not be prepared to trade them away. 31 Jul 2015 21:40
109 Abhishek Reddy 31 Jul 2015 18:36
110 Jan Larres 29 Jul 2015 08:51
111 Adrian Croucher 27 Jul 2015 16:57
112 donald callum robertson 27 Jul 2015 09:40
113 Nigel Bovey 26 Jul 2015 20:58
114 Richard Dougherty 25 Jul 2015 23:05
115 Roderick Francis David Aldridge As a user of the Linux operating system I have had problems communicating with some government electronic services. I have had to resort to mail. 23 Jul 2015 17:46
116 Richard Hector 23 Jul 2015 11:06
117 Harry Chapman Open standards are the way to ensure all citizens of New Zealand are able to open the files that the Government creates. We can do better! 23 Jul 2015 07:58
118 Francois Marier 22 Jul 2015 23:54
119 Reed Wade 22 Jul 2015 23:32
120 Yuri de Groot 22 Jul 2015 21:41