ICT as a Platform

of Change
Week 12 -
 Question:
Imagine that the Internet will be gone
forever and will never be back, how
would you react?
 Question:
What do you think will happen?
/maybe you will feel devastated
As the saying goes
You never miss the water until
the well runs dry
O Beside of your worries and complains
of what you were about to miss,
there were actually bigger things
that our world would miss without
the internet. In fact, ICT has played
a key role in our history.
 ICT as medium for
ADVOCACY
O ADVOCACY - THE ACT OR PROCESS
OF SUPPORTING A CAUSE OR
PROPOSAL

O THE ACT OR PROCESS OF

ADVOCATING SOMETHING
 ADVOCACY
O In democracy is about getting what
you want out of the government

O In a democracy, which is a
collection of voices, it is everyones
job to use their voice to remind the
government about what people
want.
- Matthew Kaplan
 Roles of ICT in Recent
History
O 1.EDSA (PEOPLE POWER
REVOLUTION).
 Roles of ICT in Recent
History
O 1.EDSA (PEOPLE POWER REVOLUTION).
O 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.
 Roles of ICT in Recent
History
O 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.
 Roles of ICT in Recent
History
O 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.
 Roles of ICT in Recent
History
O 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.
 Recent events
O #EDSA31
O EDSA2017
 Change.org
O The worlds platform for change
O 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
O The worlds platform for change
O 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.
 Activity:
1. Recall stories of how you have used ICTs to
be part of a social movement, change, or
cause to illustrate aspects of digital
citizenship. Examples of such are
participation in a trade fair, participation
in school agro-plant fair, organizing
technology and science fairs, participation
in community works such as community
clean-ups, and voluntary work such as
cooking or housebuilding during natural
calamities.
 Activity:
2. Write a journal or a blog entry.
You may also opt to create an online
photo narrative or a photo album if
there is no access to the internet to
share your stories/experiences.
 Activity:
3. If the you have no social change or
cause involvement, any social event
(birthday, a reunion, a celebration) where
the you used ICTs to contribute creatively
such as cooking for the christmas
holidays, taking photos of the food
the student prepared and posting it
on fb, a meme, or a video clip, may be
used for this class sharing.
 Activity:
Guide Questions
1. What advocacy in your professional track
have you supported? In what way did you
support it? Did you use any digital tool to do so?
2. How was the ICT experience? Was it positive
or negative?
3. How did ICT change the way people
communicated? Compare and contrast how
things would have been done had there been no
ICTs used and had ICTs been used.
O
Assessment