LESSON 11

ICT as Platform for

Change
• ICT as a medium for advocacy
• Power of social media
• Digital citizenship
At the end of this lesson, the students should be
able to:

1. understand the importance of ICT as a platform for

social change;

2. understand the events that ICT helped realize; and

3. use prior ICT knowledge in planning a campaign

using online resources.
ICT: An Avenue to Social Change
ICT has helped improved communication
when Filipinos needed it the most. Radyo
Veritas helped in the success of the People
Power Revolution. Text brigades helped in the
success of EDSA Dos. Social media sites like
Facebook helped in the success of the Million
People March. Finally, technologies like the
People finder helped bring comfort to families
looking for their loved ones during calamities
like Yolanda.
 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 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 a
petition.
 The Mission
Change.org’s mission is
to help people from
around the world create
the change they want to
see.
 Signing an Online Petition
1. Visit Change.org.
2. Click on Log in on the upper right hand of the
page.
3. Click Sign up or log in with Facebook.
4. You can then start your own petition, but for now,
click on any petition you want under trending
petitions.
5. Read the petition 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.
6. Share the petition on Facebook to promote it.