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 Blake Burgess 2 Mar 2016 19:53
82 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
83 Jim Cheetham 16 Nov 2015 09:03
84 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
85 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
86 Pikiora Wylie 16 Aug 2015 21:05
87 Imogen Grace 10 Aug 2015 12:21
88 Elena Kondrateva 6 Aug 2015 23:46
89 David Stewart 5 Aug 2015 06:20
90 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
91 Abhishek Reddy 31 Jul 2015 18:36
92 Jan Larres 29 Jul 2015 08:51
93 Adrian Croucher 27 Jul 2015 16:57
94 donald callum robertson 27 Jul 2015 09:40
95 Nigel Bovey 26 Jul 2015 20:58
96 Richard Dougherty 25 Jul 2015 23:05
97 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
98 Richard Hector 23 Jul 2015 11:06
99 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
100 Francois Marier 22 Jul 2015 23:54
101 Reed Wade 22 Jul 2015 23:32
102 Yuri de Groot 22 Jul 2015 21:41
103 Tabitha Roder 22 Jul 2015 20:09
104 Dave Horn 22 Jul 2015 17:33
105 Terry Woods 22 Jul 2015 16:45
106 Sam Bonner 22 Jul 2015 16:45
107 Eliot Blennerhassett this is long overdue 22 Jul 2015 12:36
108 David Barnett 22 Jul 2015 12:32
109 Hilary Oliver 22 Jul 2015 11:11