Mission, Vision and Development

1KA's mission comprises of the following components:

• ensuring the excellence of the online survey service;
• building on the professional field of survey methodology;
• supporting the needs of web surveying in the academic sector;
• care for the Slovenian language.

Our vision of organizational development:

• the online survey tool 1KA should become a part of publicly funded infrastructure;
• the online survey tool 1KA should remain freely available to all users in the public sector (particularly in research, academic and educational institutions) and non-governmental non-profit sector;
• the online survey tool 1KA should remain open-source;
• use for commercial purposes is directed to paid survey and consulting services and to support of its own installation (still free and open-source). Companies interested in development or offering such support are invited to participate.

Our vision of methodological development: following our vision, the following functionalities are being built*, planned** or envisioned*** for the development of the 1KA tool:

• systematic testing and improvement of the usability of KEY functionality (UX) *;
• creating custom interfaces for standardized forms and voting *;
• the use of language resources and technologies in the creation of questions *;
• development of advanced functionalities (complex statistical tables) based on the R programming language *;
• automatic control and verification of the quality of completed questionnaires *;
• identification of low-quality respondents in real-time *;
• creating a questionnaire creation application *;
• extension to support continuous research **;
• creation of a mobile application for collecting answers **;
• Web interface adjustments for newer devices (tablets, mobile, WebTV) **;
• an intelligent interface that guides the development of the questionnaire **;
• an intelligent interface that guides the process of responding **;
• comprehensive support for mixed-mode surveys (personal, mail, phone, web) **;
• question and questionnaire bank ***; 
• support for online panels ***;
• expansion of language support (Croatian / Serbian) ***.

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