Policies and Studies of Different Countries 

New Zealand

 The strategy recognizes that to focus on technical skills alone is to limit the vision of IT in education. Rather, the focus must be on extending and deepening educational experiences (and on sharing those experiences) to work towards further developing an innovative and thriving society.The insights for future IT developments are informed high-quality leadership is essential. Bringing about improvements, and embedding those improvements into day-to-day practices, takes time. When approaching IT, teachers are sometimes oriented towards skill development. To transform their practice, teachers must have ready access to technology and be active, confident technology users with a desire to learn. They need to become researchers of their own practice.Teachers are most open to change when they have collegial support. The greatest benefits for teaching and learning appear to occur when teams of people work together, learn from each other, and have access to sustained support as they integrate IT into their teaching

They still developing leadership skills. They also focusing on long term goals and solution. also they are ensuring the newly qualified teachers have the knowledge to use IT effectively in their teaching and learning process. Their vision is to develop knowledge, understanding, skills and attitude. To participate fully in the society. To achieve in global economy. And to have strong sense of identity and culture.
Singapore
One of the world's premier business cities. It is also one of the most competitive nations. They use the information technology to prepare students with such skill, it would thus be important to equip schools and teachers with the necessary infrastructure. Their government sees technology as a key enabler in making student-centered learning and assessment a reality, helping to reach the goal of ability-driven education and the government's vision of thinking schools, learning nation.

Hongkong
The strategy outlines HongKong's aims to harness the power of IT to turn schools into dynamic and innovative learning institutions, where students can become more motivated, inquisitive, creative and independent lifelong learners.Key components of the strategy are teacher enablement, focus on curriculum and software, hardware provision and the extension of infrastructure. Teachers will be trained at four different levels to become effective facilitators, guiding the students to play a more active role in learning. The government will provide schools with a threshold level of hardware, technical support and an appropriate network infrastructure for collaboration and communication between the educational sectors and the community. IT facilities will be progressively increased and the provision of educational software will be more structured.

Malaysia
IT as a tool to revolutionist learning, to produce richer curricula, enhanced pedagogy's, more effective organizational structures in schools, stronger links between schools and society and the empowerment of learners. The concept of IT in education, as seen by the Ministry of Education, includes three main policies for IT in education.

• IT for all students, meaning that IT is used as an enabler to reduce the digital gap between the schools
  

• The role and function of IT in education as a teaching and learning tool, as part of a subject, and as a subject in its own right

• Using IT to increase productivity, efficiency and effectiveness of the management system

In order to support the IT master plan they create a new generation of Malaysia who are knowledgeable in new technology.

Australia
Australia is a pioneer in using IT for educational purposes. Their goals are the following 

• increasing the benefits from information technology 
• Helping people and organizations to adapt to new circumstances and providing tools and models to respond rationally to challenges posed by IT
• 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 organizations, and towards the public at large
• Identifying priority areas for IT development (areas that will have the greatest positive impact on programmed, 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 organizations with a minimum level of IT knowledge, and the ability to keep it up to date
• Helping to understand information technology, its development and its cross-disciplinary impact 

Philippines

As I observe in the Philippines, the IT is not compulsory to the students to take it up as a subject. Aside from that the some of the teachers are not well informed or don't have the knowledge on the IT.  For me, we should include it to our curriculum so that the students can really take it up.

references:

http://www.unescobkk.org/education/ict/themes/policy/guidelines/common-goals-of-ict-policies/

http://www.unescobkk.org/education/ict/themes/policy/guidelines/general-ict-policy-elements/

http://www.unescobkk.org/education/ict/themes/policy/regional-country-overviews/new-zealand/

http://www.unescobkk.org/education/ict/themes/policy/regional-country-overviews/Malaysia/

http://www.unescobkk.org/education/ict/themes/policy/regional-country-overviews/Singapore/