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Ms. Mary Jeane Mirano
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 Understanding Culture Society and Politics
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FEBRUARY WEEK 13-14

TOPIC ICT as Platform for Change

SCOPE ICT as Medium for Advocacy and Development Communication

The Role of ICT in Recent History

     Throughout recent history, the Philippines have been one of a few nations that demonstrate unity for a call to action or social
change. These campaigns for social change would have not been successful if it were not for ICT.
1. EDSA (PEOPLE POWER REVOLUTION). The people power revolution lasted from 1083 to 1986. During a
radio broadcast of Radio Veritas, Cardinal Sin encouraged the Filipinos to help end the regime of then President
Ferdinand Marcos. A major protest took place along the EDSA from February 22 to 25, 1986 involving two million
Filipinos from different sectors. These included civilians, political parties, the military and religious groups.
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 of the President Joseph Estrada walked out of the impeachment trial. As a result, the
crowd in EDSA grew over the course of a few days through text brigades. 
3. Million People March. This is a series pf 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 location
overseas. The organizers and promoters of the Million People March used Facebook and Change.org as their,
mediums.
4. Yolanda People Finder. Recent storms in Philippines 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 is dubbed as the “world’s platform for change” where anyone from the online community can create a petition and ask
others to sign in it. During the past times petitions are only done through signing a paper, usually done by a group asking for
signatures via travel. Change.org gives access to more people by allowing the online community to affix their digital signatures on
petition.
Signing an Online Petition
1. VisitChange.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 tending petitions.
4. Read the petitions description to see if this petition matters 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.
     Alternatively, you can check out petitions of your friends on Facebook, and then click on those petitions to read about it and sign
it.
 ICT Project for Social Change
Before starting your project, your group should be able to do the necessary paperwork. This allows experts to see if your project is
doable over the time frame that was given and if it is significant enough to be made into reality.
Five elements of a concept paper
 Introduction-includes tour group’s mission and vision and a brief introduction of your project.
 Purpose-includes the reasons why this project is worth your group and your sponsor’s time, effort and money.
 Description-includes all the necessary information about the project. In ICT, it involves the sites you are going to produce
and the purpose of each and how they work in unison.
 Support-contains the budget needed for the project. Some concept papers do not specify any amount requested from the
sponsor.
 Contact information- includes information on how the group be contacted.
Simplified ICT Project Process Overview
1. Planning-Involves the following task (but not limited to):
2. Conceptualizing your project.
3. Researching on available data about your topic
4. Setting deadlines and meetings
5. Assigning people to various tasks
6. Finding a web or blog host
7. Creating a site map for tour website
8. Listing down all applications, that you need including web apps
9. Funding (If applicable)
2. Development-involves the actual creation of the website(s), involves the production of images, infographics, etc.
3. Release and Promotion-involves the actual release of the website for public view and promoting it. Promotion typically starts
before the actual release.

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Ms. Mary Jeane Mirano
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4. Maintenance-involves responding to feedback of your site visitors and continuing to improve your website.
ICT Project Publication and Statistics
Monitoring Site Statistics on Different Platforms
1. WordPress
Once you log in to your WordPress account, you are on the Reader tab by default. Simply click on My Sites and from there you will
see the statistics for your blog.
2. Facebook
 In your Facebook page, a summary of the statistics will appear on the right side of your cover photo: Hovering your mouse pointer
over “Post Reach” will give you more insights on which recent post reached the most people: Clicking on the Insights tab will give
more in-depth statistics:
1. Overview– contains the summary of statistics about your page
Definition of terms on your Facebook statistics:
Reach: Organic – your posts seen through the page’s wall, shares by users, and the news feed
Reach: Paid – your posts seen through paid ads
Post Clicks – number of clicks done to your posts
Likes, Comments, and Shares – actual interaction done by your audience either through liking the post, commenting on it, or sharing
it on their walls.
1. Likes– contains the statistics about the trend of page likes
2. Reach– contains information about the number of people who was reached by your post
3. Visits– contains data of the number of times your page tabs (like the Timeline) are visited
4. Post– contains data showing when (day and time) you site visitors visit your site
5. People– contains statistics about your audience’s demographics (age, location, gender, language, and country). It is
also includes demographics about the people you have reached and engaged with.
Demographics refers to the statistics characterizing human population usually divided by age, gender, income, location, and
language.

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Ms. Mary Jeane Mirano
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