Procurement
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Who
What
When
Where
How
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Individual Responses
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Adult and Higher Education
- Buy in from Higher Education and Senior Management. Cost effective is not necessarily best practice.
- Researchers and academics listening to Gen-Y before they implement solutions. ir for they actually understand what it actually is.
- How to get the skills out there
- Computer literacy
- Recognition of need for non-central tools / flexibility & freedom in services & software
- understanding the shift in economies
- convincing users of re-distribution of costs
- openness to innovation is required QA guidelines can prohibit this.
- coop and collaborative approach for support especially tech support (infrastructure, programming) Network of support
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School Sector
- Government explore use of open source software in the first instance rather than proprietary tools
- Government mandate guidelines that systems should be able to perform on all platforms proprietary and open source
- mixture of software and hardware eg iphones, laptops, whiteboards
- central procurement should only be done to deliver advantage not control
- it purchases made on pedagogy evidence not convenient ones for IT support, dollars or vendor lock in.
