ICT as Platform

for Change
ICT Project for
Social Change
Submitted by:Agnes Joy L. Garan
Grade-11 HOPE
Submitted to:Sir Allan Torreon
Empowerment and technologies
Quarter-1 Module-2
 REMEMB
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This presentation is designed for you to be able to examine how
ICT tools and platforms have changed the way people
communicate, and how social change has been brought about
using ICTs. It covers the following topics of ICT as a medium for
advocacy and developmental communication, the social power of
social media, and digital citizenship and the Filipino people.
 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 social
change would not have been successful if it were not for ICT.

ICT played a vital role in the EDSA People Power Revolution as it becomes the eye
opener to the Filipinos to see what is the reality the reign of the dictator and an
authoritarian President, Ferdinand Marcos for 20 years. ICT has been useful and helpful
as it becomes the modern sword of today`s society.
 1.EDSA (People
The People Power Revolution lasted from 1983 to 1986.

Power Revolution)
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
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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
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2011/12/edsa- revolution-dos have been successful without the text brigades.
 3.Million
People March
This is a series of protests 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 (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.

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 4.Yolanda
People Ffinder
Recent storms in Philippine history gave
birth to the People finder database
powered by Google. During the super
typhoon Yyolanda, 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. https://images.app.goo.gl/kZ1XXNvsZU967EAQ7
 ICT as a medium
for Advocacy
Ritu R. Sharma (1997) from the Academy for Educational Development in her book “An
Introduction to Advocacy Training Guide” describes advocacy as a tool for “putting a
problem on the agenda, providing a solution to that problem and building support for
acting on both the problem and the solution”. This definition expresses an
important idea: In a digital and networked age, advocacy is not just about influencing
public policy, but also and first of all about influencing public opinion. Advocacy is a
process of supporting and enabling people to express their views and concerns,
access information and services, defend and promote their rights and
responsibilities.
 Change.or
g
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 were 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
1 O0nline Petition
Visit Change.org. 4
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.

Change.org works this way. If this is your first

2
time to use Change.org, click Sign up or log in
with Facebook. Otherwise, just input your login
5 Share the petition on Facebook to promote it.

details.

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

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 Digital
Citizenship
It refers to the utilization of
information technology (IT) to
engage in society, politics, and
government.
Mossberger, et.al. define digital
citizens as ‘those who use the
internet regularly and effectively’.
Digital
Citizenship
Principles
1. Engage positively.
• Respect the rights of others to participate and
have an opinion.
• Ask before tagging other people or posting
photos.
• Report offensive or illegal content
• Stand up and speak out about cyberbullying
• Do not respond to hurtful or nasty comments
• Speak to your parents or trusted adult about
upsetting online experiences.
• Report threats of violence to the police and
collect evidence to show them.
2. KKKKKKknow your online
world.
• Learn how new skills will help you
explore the online world.
• Recognize online risks and how to
manage them.
• LLlook out for suspicious emails
and scams.
• Uuse secure websites for financial
and retail services.
• Kkeep passwords secret, strong and
unique.
• Kknow how to report bullying
behavior on social media sites.
3. Choose consciously.
• Choose privacy and security
settings carefully and check them
regularly.
• Choose friends wisely online.
• Regularly review your connections
and remove people.
• If you have made a mistake,
apologize, and take down offensive
material as soon as possible.
• Ask for permission before
uploading pictures of your friends.
 9 Elements of
Digital Citizenship
1. Digital Access. This is perhaps one of the most fundamental blocks to being a
digital citizen. However, due to socio-economic status, location, and other
disabilities, some individuals may not have digital access. Digital access is
available in many remote countries via cyber cafés and small coffee shops.
2. Digital Commerce. This is the ability for users to recognize that much of the
economy is regulated online. It also deals with the understanding of the dangers
and benefits of online buying like in Shopee, using credit cards online, online
banking like G-cash etc.
3. Digital Communication. This element deals with understanding the variety
of online communication mediums such as email (Gmail, Yahoo mail), instant
messaging, FB messenger, the variety of apps, etc. There is a standard of
etiquette associated with each medium.
4. Digital Literacy. This deals with the understanding of how to use
various digital services. It is the ability and knowledge needed to learn and
teach using technology tools.
6. Digital Law. This is where enforcement occurs for
illegal downloads, plagiarizing, hacking, creating viruses,
sending spams, identity theft, cyberbullying, etc.
7. Digital Rights and Responsibilities. This is the set of
rights that digital citizens have such as privacy, speech, etc.
8. Digital Health and Wellness. Digital citizens must be
aware of the physical stress placed on their bodies by internet
usage. They must be aware to not become overly
dependent on the internet causing eye strain, headaches,
stress problems, and so on.
9. Digital Security. This simply means that citizens must take
measures to be safe by practicing using difficult
passwords, virus protection, backing up data, etc.
Thank
You