DHHIG Survey
1 10 2008(Note: See comments for corrections on this Vlog and text.)
All..
Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing In Government, Inc (DHHIG) did a video communication survey and published results. Very interesting.
DHHIG is a national non-profit organization which is an employee support group focusing on communication needs. The survey is done to gather information on the impact of video phones on federal employees or the impact of not using video phones.
They survey had 332 responded to the survey requests – 93% of total 357 participants. It is interesting to note the largest participants were from:
- dept of Ed – 53,
- dept of Health and Human Services – 25,
- dept of Interior – 23,
- dept of Navy – 28,
- SSA – 26,
- dept of Treasury – 40
Out of 357, 32% had video conference equipment, and whooping 65% did not. Reason why not? Same old song in most state governments, too – denied due to security/Network issues – 38%, and due to funding concerns – 10%. Interesting is this "do not need video conference equipment" 15%. "Other" – 32%.
Survey also shows 40% use vp-200, ancient D-Link 22%, webcamera – 15% and others 18%.
Equally interesting is functionality of Video conference; meaning use video equipment: 32% most of the time, 27% all the time, 29% sometimes; 6% for rarely, and 5% never.
Strongly suggest you all go over these links. It will give you a valuable insights for sure as it did for me.
The following link explains what is DHHIG.
The following link is a brief summary video results.
Brief Summary of video results
This link is 85 pages long…
Expanded Survey Results 85 pages
eyes open & thumbs up,
Ed B
Ed,
thanks for sharing the results of the DHHIG survey. We need a similar one for deaf employees in state government throughout the USA. I would say that nearly all of the Rehabilitation Counselors for the Deaf in CA have video communication capability. I don’t know about other CA state agencies that have deaf employees, if they have such capability. Sheila
I work for CDC under HHS. The contractor for CDC is clueless at my branch. I have a videophone in my office, but it is not working. I have reported three times. Sigh!!
Ed-
As one of the author for this DHHIG survey, I wish to make a couple of corrections…
1) The largest participant is Department of Defense (53), not Department of Education which have 13. This was noted in the survey report.
2) The “functionality” of the video-conferencing equipment means “How well does your videophone work?”, not “How often do you use your videophone?” We at DHHIG were trying to determine if deaf & hard of hearing Federal workers’ videophone equipment are working properly or not.
We would appreciate very much if you could make these corrections in your vlog as well as your webpage.
Additionally, if you have any questions about the survey results or want to provide feedback/suggestions about this initiative, please send an email to VPSummit@dhhig.org.
–VPSummit Team Member
Author of VP Survey,
Hey, thanks for the corrections. I wasn’t sure of the language, and glad you could clarify that. Your comment and this comment will reach everyone that viewed the vlog.
Again, thanks. One question. Has this survey produced results?
eyes open & thumbs up,
Ed