Does the Philippines we know today become what she is without ICT?

Most people would argue that we

are lagged behind when it comes to technological advancements but that does not mean that we have
not used what we have to our benefit.

For a moment, imagine the internet has disappeared and will never be back. What do you think will
happen? List down your thoughts and share them in class.

“You never miss the water until the well runs dry” and maybe, the same saying goes for the Internet.
How many times has your ISP deprived you of your right to access the Internet? How many times have
you been frustrated? But besides not being able to update what you had for dinner last night or
updating your profile picture, there are actually far bigger things this world would have missed without
the internet. In fact, ICT in general has played a key role in our history.

The role of ICT in Recent History

Throughout recent history, the Philippines has been one of a few nations that demonstrates unity for a
call to action or social change. These campaigns for a Social change would have not been successful if it
were not for ICT.

1. EDSA ( People Power Revolution )

- The People Power Revolution lasted from

1983 to 1986. During a radio broadcast of
Radio Veritas, Cardinal Sin encouraged the
Filipinos to help end the regime of then
President Marcos. A major protest took
place along EDSA from February 22 to 25,
1986 involving two million Filipinos from
different sectors. These include civilians,
political parties, and the military and
religious groups. The radio broadcast helped change the course of history. Without it,
Filipinos would have not have moved into action

2. EDSA DOS

- This is also known as the 2001 EDSA Revolution,

happened during January 17 to 21, 2001. It was fueled
after 11 prosecutors then President Joseph Estrada
walked out of the impeachment trial. As results, the
crowd in EDSA grew over the course of a few days
through text brigades. Like the first People Power
Revolution, EDSA Dos would not have been successful
without the text brigades
 3. Million People March

- This is a series of protest that mainly took

place in Luneta Park from August 22 to 26,
2013. There were also several
demonstrations that happened around key
cities in the Philippines and some locations
overseas. It was to condemn the misuse of
the Priority Development Assistance Fund.
Though dubbed as the Million People March,
the number of total attendees was only
around 400,000. Despite that, it was still considered a success and clearly demonstrated
how powerful social media campaigns are. The organizers and promoter of the Million
People March used Facebook and Change. Org as their mediums

4. Yolanda People Finder

- Recent storms in Philippine history gave birth to

the people finder database powered by
Google. During typhoon Yolanda, the People
Finder was a vital tool for people across the
globe to track the situation of their relatives.
This proved to be successful and is now
adapted by more organizations to help
people track relatives during calamities

Change.org

- Change.org is dubbed as the world’s

platform for change where anyone
from the online community can
create a petition and ask others to
sign it. During the past times,
petitions are only done through
signing paper, usually done by a
group asking signatures via travels.
Change.org gives access to more
people by allowing the online community to affix their digital signatures on a petition

- To help people from around the world create the change they want to see. For years,
Change.org hosted several petitions that help solve the following problems: economic
problems, criminal in justice, abuse of human rights, and lack of education, environmental
concerns, animal abuse, human health concerns, and world hunger.
  Signing an Online Petition

1. Visit Change.org

2. Change.org works this way. If this is your first, time to use Change. Org, click Sign up or log in
with Facebook. Otherwise, just input your log- in details.

3. You can then start your own petition, but for now, click on any petition you want under
trending petitions.

4. Read the petition description to see if this petition maters to you. If it is, sign the petition by
filling up the information on the right side of the screen.

5. Share the petition on Facebook to promote it.

Multiple Choice: Write the letter of the correct answer on the space before each number

1. It is an online petition platforms that allows the online community to create or sign petitions

A. Weebly

B. Pinterest

C. Change. Org

D. Better.net

2. In what year did EDSA Dos take place?

A. 2001

B. 2002

C. 2003

D. 2004

3. It was a series of protests that happened during August 22 to 26, 2013 that was caused by
the misuse of the pork barrel

A. Edsa Tres

B. Edsa Dos

C. Million People March

D. Digital Revolution
4. Which radio station did Cardinal Sin use to call on the Filipino people to support the rally
against President Marcos?

A. DZMM

B. Radyo Veritas

C. DZRH

D. ABAM

5. The Yolanda People Finder that was used to locate individuals during and after the storm
was created by

A. GMA 7

B. ABS-CBN

C. Google

D. Microsoft

6. It is dubbed as the world’s platform for change

A. Weebly

B. Pinterest

C. Change.org

D. Better,net

7. The Million People March never reached a million. What was the estimated number of
protesters for this protest?

A. 400k

B. 500k

C. 600k

D. 700k

8. What made EDSA Dos protest successful?

A. Facebook social campaign

B. Text brigades

C. A radio broadcast
 D. None of the above

9. The People Power Revolution protest mainly happened along EDSA from February 22 to 25
of what year?

A. 1983

B. 1985

C. 1986

D. 1988

10. The Million People March was series of protest around key cities in the Philippines and
around the world. Where did the Million People March happen mainly?

A. New people’s park

B. EDSA

C. Mendiola

D. Luneta Park