Common goals of ICT policies
A synthesis of goals often mentioned by countries in their national policies on the use of ICT in education is presented below. It has been excerpted from the paper "Asia and the Pacific into the Twenty-First Century".
- Increasing the benefits from information technology
- Helping people and organisations to adapt to new circumstances and providing tools and models to respond rationally to challenges posed by ICT
- Providing information and communication facilities, services and management at a reasonable or reduced cost
- Improving the quality of services and products
- Encouraging innovations in technology development, use of technology and general work flows
- Promoting information sharing, transparency, and accountability and reducing bureaucracy within and between organisations, and towards the public at large
- Identifying priority areas for ICT development (areas that will have the greatest positive impact on programmes, services, and customers)
- Providing citizens with a chance to access information; they may further specify the quality of that access in terms of media, retrieval performance, and so on
- Attaining a specified minimum level of information technology resources for educational institutions and government agencies
- Supporting the concept of lifelong learning
- Providing individuals and organisations with a minimum level of ICT knowledge, and the ability to keep it up to date
- Helping to understand information technology, its development and its cross-disciplinary impact