ICT as Platform for Change

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.
Lesson Motivation

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 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

1. EDSA (People Power Revolution). The People Power

Revolution lasted from 1983 to 1986. During a radio
broadcast of Radyo Veritas, Cardinal Sin encouraged the
Filipinos to help end the regime of then President
Ferdinand Marcos. A major protest took place along EDSA
from February 22 to 25, 1986 involving two million
Filipinos from different sectors. These included civilians,
political parties,
the military, and religious groups. The radio broadcast
helped change the course of history. Without it, Filipinos
would not have been 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 of then 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. 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 protests that
mainly tookplace 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 (PDAF). 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
promoters 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 oranizations to help people track relatives
during calamities.
Change.org
Change.org is dubbed as the “world's platorm 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.
Change.org's mission is 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 injustice,
abuse of human rights, 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 matter
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.