ICT POLICIES AND STRATEGIES

In every country there must be a strategies and policies so that it will be a progressive one. Although there are lots of strategy and policy to be made we must be smart so that it can be effective. As what I have research and read on the UNESCO BANGKOK of the different country, majority of the country have the same strategies and policies on how they make there country be progressive. Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia,Hong Kong and Singapore are using ICT as there aid for there progress.
Australia
-focuses on two major areas, strengthening infrastructure and improving school capability. The document outlines the benefits of these two actions and presents initiatives that aim to create concrete results in the focus areas.
New Zealand
- explores the developing use of ICT by both the schools sector and the technical/vocational and teacher education sector against this context of the competing values of local governance on the one hand, and the national aspiration to participate in the international knowledge economy on the other. The experiences of the two sectors have been quite different, mostly because technical/ vocational education and teacher education are both important parts of the tertiary system, which the government also recognized as needing support with respect to the uptake of ICT. For this reason, these two sectors are discussed separately.
Malaysia
- implemented the first computer system in 1966. Since then, the Government
has introduced various initiatives to facilitate the greater adoption and diffusion of
ICT to improve capacities in every field of business, industry, education, and life in
general. These measures include the enhancement of education and training
programmes, provision of an environment conducive to the development of ICT,
provision of incentives for computerization and automation, and creation of venture
capital funds. Currently, Malaysia is in full gear to steer the economy towards a
knowledge-based one. On July 2001, the Deputy Prime Minister announced that
Malaysia’s K-Economy Master Plan was in the final stages of formulation.
Hong Kong
- Digital 21 strategy
Since 1998, the Digital 21 Strategy has set out the Government's vision of developing Hong Kong
into a leading digital city. Its success can be measured by an impressive set of statistics, which
demonstrates Hong Kong's advancement in various areas of ICT over the years.
Reviewed and updated regularly, the Digital 21 Strategy will continue to guide Hong Kong's
development on the ICT front, catering for the evolving needs of the Government, businesses and
the general public and sustaining the strengths of Hong Kong as one of the worlds' most
competitive economies.
Singapore
- one of the worlds premiere business cities, being consistently ranked as one of the worlds most competitive nation ( World Economic Forum 2000). This papers aims

''The five country have different policies and strategies. Some focused on the education of using high technology like computer and some are on business. Their government give full support to their programs implemented that’s why they are progressive.
For me the Philippine is lack of support from the government that’s why we are not progressing. They did look the good for our country.
Our government must give importance of educating people in using hic technology and in business. If they will do it our country will belong as one of the progressive country.''