This Section outlines the three components of the National Guidelines for Technology:
A Preferred Standards
B Functional Specifications
C Operating Guidelines
It also describes:
as agreed during the workshop consultation process.
The key output of the workshops - in fulfilment of the overall objectives of the project – was the agreement by the workshop participants of preferred standards. These decisions emerged after discussion of the input briefing papers, auditing of current practices in the States/Territories and detailed discussion of the business and technical issues involved.
In some areas, for example Computer Managed Learning Systems, there are only proprietary products available. In accordance with the standards policy agreed previously, no standards were therefore defined. It was thought to be advantageous to define Functional Specifications, which cannot be stated simply by reference to a formal technical standards document.
The consultation papers contain the detailed justifications of the project outcomes.
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