Information Policy for Hong Kong Schools: The Case of the Missing Chopsticks

Abstract

A project to develop a research instrument to study information policy in schools was conducted. Part of that study, a literature review and a Hong Kong-based study, was completed to benchmark information policy practice in schools in Hong Kong. The authors found that information policy at a macro level was well addressed in the literature as governments addressed a quagmire of intellectual property, intellectual freedom, security, privacy, and administrative issues. Information policy at the micro level-in schools-was lacking. The purpose of this study was to investigate how the micro-level set of information policies is handled in schools. An online questionnaire administered to in-service teachers in Hong Kong provided findings that reinforced the authors' initial feeling that information policy is a topic more talked about than understood. It is worth pursuing comparisons using the instrument with information policy development in other countries.