ICT Policies and Issues

1. ICT Policies and
Issues: Implications to
Teaching and Learning

2. "The future has arrived. Now we
have to ensure that we have a
place in it."
-Department of Information, Communication
And Technology

3. “policy” as a course of action,
adopted and pursued by a
government, party, ruler,
statesman. It is any course of
action adopted as expedient or
advantageous.
ICT POLICY

4. The New ICT
Technologies

5. Includes the use of computers,
which has become indispensable in
modern societies to process data
and save time and effort.
INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY
The New ICT Technologies

6. include telephones (with fax) and
the broadcasting of radio and
television often through satellites.
TELECOMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY
The New ICT Technologies

7. The best known of networking technologies is internet, but
has extended to mobile phone technology, Voice Over
Internet Protocol (VOIP) satellite communications and other
forms of communications are still in their infancy.
NETWORK
TECHNOLOGY
The New ICT Technologies

8. ICT
ROADMAP

9. The ICT for Education (ICT4E) is a program under the DICT
that supports all the efforts of the education sector in
incorporating the use of ICT as well as in determining and
gaining access to the infrastructure (hardware, software,
telecommunications facilities and others) which are
necessary to use and deploy learning technologies at all
levels of education.
ICT ROADMAP

10. 1. ICT in education Masterplan for all levels,
including a National Roadmap for faculty
Development in ICT in Education.
ICT ROADMAP
2. Content and application development through
the Open Content in Education Initiative (OCEI)
which converts DepEd materials into interactive
multi-media content.

11. 3. PhedNET is a “walled” garden that hosts
educational learning and teaching materials and
applications for use by the Filipino students,
their parents and teachers.
ICT ROADMAP
4. Established Community eLearning Centers
called eskwela for out-of-school youth (OSY)
providing them with ICT-enhanced alternative
education opportunities.

12. 5. eQuality Program for Tertiary education
through partnerships with state universities and
colleges (SUCs) to improve quality of IT education
and the use of ICT in education in the country,
particularly outside of Metro Manila.
ICT ROADMAP

13. 6. Digital Media Arts Program which builds digital
media skills for government using Open Source
technologies.
ICT ROADMAP
7. ICT skills strategic plan which develops an inter-
agency approach to identifying strategic and
policy and program recommendations to address
ICT skills demand-supply type.

14. Some Issues on
ICT and Internet
Policy and
Regulations

15. Access and Civil Liberties are two sets of issues in ICT
Policy which are crucial to the modern society. The
other concern is civil liberties which refer to human
rights and freedom. These include freedom of
expression, the right to privacy, the right to
communicate and intellectual property rights.
GLOBAL ISSUES
Some Issues on ICT and Internet Policy and Regulations

16. Under international human rights convention, all people are
guaranteed the rights for free expression. However, with the
shift from communicating through letter, newspapers and
public meetings to electronic communications and on-line
networking, a need to look into how these new means modifies
the understanding of freedom of expression and censorship.
ISSUE NO 1: Freedom of
Expression and Censorship
Some Issues on ICT and Internet Policy and Regulations

17. Privacy policies are an issue. Most commercial sites have a
privacy policy. When someone uses a site and clicks “I agree”, it
is as if you have turned over private information to any
authority that may access it.
Issue No. 2: Privacy and
Security
Some Issues on ICT and Internet Policy and Regulations

18. The use of electronic communications has enhanced the
development of indirect surveillance, there is no direct contact
between the agent and the subject of surveillance but
evidence of activities can be traced. The new and powerful
form of indirect surveillance is dataveillance.
Issue No. 3: Surveillance and
Data Retention
Some Issues on ICT and Internet Policy and Regulations

19. The accumulated e-waste is due to rapid turnover of
equipment due to rapid improvement of software. While
material waste can be destroyed by crushing, toxic material
brought about by the different equipment requires utmost
management.
Issue No. 4: E-pollutants
from E-waste
Some Issues on ICT and Internet Policy and Regulations

20. Implications to
Teaching and
Learning

21. There are great implications of this lesson to
both the teachers who are teaching and the
learners who are learning. A few of these are as
follows:
Some Issues on ICT and Internet Policy and Regulations

22. Guide the teachers on what they should teach that relate
to ICT, and how to teach it.
Guide the teachers on what they should teach that relate
to ICT, and how to teach it.
For the Teachers and
Teaching
Some Issues on ICT and Internet Policy and Regulations

23. There are rules and regulations that govern the use of
technology.
All the issues and many more shall be part of the teaching
content as each teacher will be encouraged to use
technology in teaching.
For the Teachers and
Teaching
Some Issues on ICT and Internet Policy and Regulations

24. The learners of the 21st Century are even more advanced
than some of the teachers. However, learners still need
guidance on how to use, regulate technology use. As there
are positive and negative effects of technology use,
learners should know the difference.
For the Learners and
Learning
Some Issues on ICT and Internet Policy and Regulations

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