A collaborative approach was used to develop the surveys, which was
distributed across participating schools
CONSULTATION APPROACH
Alignment Meetings
Bimonthly and additional calls (as necessary) were held with the WorkVentures
team across 12 months to develop detailed planning, risk management and execution
of a co-designed approach to school consultation and the impact measurement of
laptop donations. These calls were critical in providing direction and alignment across
Survey 1 and Survey 2, highlighting additional data sources to support understanding
of digital inclusion and in the testing of interim findings.
School Engagement
178 donated laptops were distributed across 6 participating schools in 5 different
states. Recipient schools were chosen at the discretion of the Australian Business
and Community Network (ABCN), with each maintaining student populations of
relatively lower socio-educational backgrounds. Communications with these schools
were managed by a representative from KPMG’s Corporate Citizenship team. This
included communications surrounding the two student surveys, correspondence with
a school principal and facilitation of an in-person interview with a recipient student.
DATA LIMITATIONS
Given the scope of this program of work, the survey dataset contains certain
limitations. These include;
•
Students selected to receive a laptop donation were chosen at the discretion of
recipient schools.
•
There is limited, no, or non available data obtained by Australian schools that
can robustly indicate what percentage of students at any given school are digitally
excluded. Due to the small number of participants in this study, extrapolation
of findings over a larger population cannot be made to ascertain the level of
nation-wide digital exclusion among school aged students.
•
71 responses were received for Survey 2 which does not reflect the entire
population of 134 responses within Survey 1.