Well the NZ election is in its final hours with the votes being counted and whoever wins there will be misguided ICT policies for schools.
On the challangers side (Labour - Nanny State and spending for the medal) who are very unlikely to win we have the laptops for students pledge that would give all lower desile school students (eventually) a laptop. Lots of money, lots of infrastructure and no real planning behind it.
For the defending champ (National - Business FTW but accounts kept in check) who are currently leading quite heavily there is the national schools network. This has promise building a national loop network between all schools over the new fibre links (when they eventually show up). The main issue here is that all schools will be tied into central services and these will be run by the same 'geniuses' that are hell bent on pushing their preffered suppliers agandas. This may well lead to NZ schools being a jointly owned subsiderary of Google and to a limited extent Apple. These are also the same people who built a network between dozens of schools that was brought down by a looped back cable.
Whoever wins there will be changes and they both have good and bad aspects but I predict it turning into a total sham as usual with three of four people making decisions that suite them and their supplier friends to the expence of everyone else.
Which toilet ICT will be flushed down is now up to the general public, may they choose wisely and may the suffering be breif.
