Empowerment

Technologies

Quarter 2 – Module 13:

ICT as Platform for Change
What I Need to Know
Learning Competency:

Share anecdotes of how he/she has used

ICTs to be part of a social movement,
change, or cause to illustrate aspects of
digital citizenship. CS_ICT11/12-ICTPT-IIl-15
Advocacy – is a way of expressing views,
opinions, concerns information access and on
establishing to all one’s rights and responsibilities
through any possible means or ways.
Social Media

• Is a collective term for website applications which focus on

community-based input, communication, interaction,
content-sharing and collaboration.
• As of today, social media was known to be the most powerful
platform to use if you want to generate instant and massive
public reactions to whatever concerns or issue that you have.
• However, in using Social Media as a platform for
advocacy, one should also realize that following
protocols and computer etiquettes should be observed
at all time.
• Moreover, you should also understand and appreciate
how ICT influence the history specifically its
significant contribution to what we are enjoying today.
 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 1983 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.
From this happening, radio broadcast
had helped change the course of history.
they’ve use Radyo Veritas to reach out
with other people and to convey
messages and disseminate information
about this even in the recent history.
 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. In the history, it can be traced that
they’ve used text messaging to mobilize people
3. PDAF (Priority Development Assistance
Fund)
It is also known as the 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 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
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.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
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.
It had been also discussed in this lesson that
ICT is a tool for development communication.
 INDIVIDUAL
ACTIVITY
Write your ideas about the
illustration that follows next.
The Two Faces of Social Media

GOOD
 CONCLUSION:
Social Media can help us gain the
knowledge that we need, but depending on it
too much can give us doubt of the
knowledge that we already have.
Thank you!