1. Question about the organization

1. Where is your organization based?
   (Please indicate city or municipality name)

2. On behalf of which organization are you making a response?
   
   

	Organization:
	Department/branch/section:
	Contact
	Address:

3. Which roles best describe your organization?
   (If more than one, grade your response, with 1 for closest ties)

	Local government
	University/college
	Private consultancy
	Non Governmental Organization
	Community base
	Federal Agency
	Others:

2. Access to the Internet

We want to know if people of your organization have access to Internet or the tools to communicate electronically. This will help us to identify how organizations can access digital information services.

1. What access to the Internet is available for the members/staff?
   (please tick appropriate options)

	None
	Permanent connection, in office from each desk
	Permanent connection, on communal computer
	Modem, from some desks
	Modem, on communal computer
	Individually from their homes
	Don’t Know
	Others:

2. Which of these services can members/staff use?
   (please tick one option for each service)

	E-mail
	World Wide Web (Internet)
	On-line file transfer programs
	Don’t Know
	Others:

3. What browser does your organization use to access the WWW, and what version (if known)?

	Microsoft Internet Explorer:
	Netscape:
	Mosaic:
	Don’t Know
	Others:

4. Does your organization feel that the Internet (external e-mail, Web etc.) is useful to its activities?

	Yes
	No
	Don’t know
	Additional Comments:

3. Accessing digital datasets and spatial data sets of Vieques in relation to human, economic or environmental dimensions.

We want to know if your organization makes use of digital data and spatial data of Vieques related to human, economic or environmental dimensions, and how your organization obtains this data. Even if you do not obtain information in digital format at present, please go through this section.

1. Does your organization make use or are planning to use data of Vieques related to:
   (Please select all that applies)

	Yes we use	We Plan to use
Agriculture and food		
Atmosphere and Climate		
Economics indicators		
Biodiversity and Protected Areas		
Coastal, Marine, and Inland Waters		
Population, Health, and Human Development		
Urban Data		
Property Parcel Data		
Do not use any of this data
Others:		

2. Does your organization make use or are planning to use spatial data of Vieques like:
   (Please select all that applies)

	Yes we use	We Plan to use
Topography		
Cadastral maps		
Administrative boundaries		
Vegetation maps		
Soil maps		
Geology maps		
Population maps		
Tourism maps		
Aerial photos		
Satellites images		
Do not use spatial data
Others:		

3. What other data are you likely to want to use?

4. What type of source would you like use to access the data listed in question 3.1 and question 3.2:
   (Please select all that applies)
   
   

	Download from Web Page
	Download from Web Page using file transfers protocol (ftp)
	E-mail attachment
	CD-Rom
	Others:

5. What prevents your organization from using digital data more?
   (tick those that apply)

	Lack of hardware/software
	Lack of Information Technology advice
	Lack of interoperability/heterogeneity
	Lack of quality
	Data we want are not available
	Too difficult to convert
	Lack of need
	Worried about copyright
	Cost
	Do not use any source of data
	Didn't know they were available
	Others:

6. For what aspects of its work does your organisation currently use digital data?

7. How would you like to use digital data in your organisation, in the future?

8. What is your opinion on this statement?

	Strongly Agree	Agree	Neither agree or disagree	Disagree	Strongly disagree
Being able to access digital datasets in a digital format would be helpful to support projects for the sustainable development of Vieques.

4. Use of spatial technologies and survey

We want to know if your organization is involved in the use of spatial technologies.

Geospatial technologies are the tools used to acquire, store, analyze, and distribute data that are referenced to the earth by a real-world coordinate system, as well as the sciences that study these issues. Specific technologies include geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing, Global Positioning System (GPS) and land survey applications.

1. Is the organization/ institution involved in the use of spatial technologies, like:
   (Please select all that applies)

	Geographic Information Systems (GIS )
	Digital Image Processing
	Global Positioning Systems (GPS)
	Land surveying
	Do not use any spatial technology
	Others:

2. Have you use any of this technologies with information related to Vieques
   (Please select all that applies)

	Yes with GIS
	Yes with Digital Image Processing
	Yes collect information of Vieques using GPS
	Yes collect information of Vieques using survey
	Do not use any spatial technology
	Others:

5. Study or research related to Vieques

We want to know if your organization have conducted, is currently conducting or is planning to conduct any research or projects related to the municipality of Vieques. This information will help identify data sets and information that could be share between organizations.

1. Is your organization have conducted, is currently conducting or is planning to conduct a study or research related to Vieques environment?

	Yes we have conducted (in the past)
	Yes we are currently conducting
	No, but we are planning to
	No at all

2. What is the title of the project or research?

	Do not have a title yet

3. Can you give a brief description of the project or research?

4. Was there any new data created and/or digitized for this project?

	Yes
	No

5. If yes, would you be willing to share this data with other organizations/ institutions conducting research or projects related to Vieques?

	Yes
	No

6. Please describe any newly created/digitized data sets used:

7. Please state the software used?

8. Please check which category(s) you think this work falls under:

	Botany/Ecology
	Education
	Geology
	Land Use/Agriculture
	Water-related
	Zoology
	Do not use spatial data
	Others:

6. Contact Information

We may be following this questionnaire with further interviews. Please indicate here if you would be willing to participate in this further exercise:

	Yes
	Name
	Organization
	Department/Section
	Position
	Address
	Telephone
	E-mail: