Chapter 11 ICT Project For Social Change

This document provides information on planning an ICT project for social change, including a sample concept paper. It discusses the importance of creating a concept paper to convince funders to support a proposed project. The concept paper should include an introduction, purpose, description, support/budget, and contact information. It then gives an example concept paper for an "Education on Wheels" project that brings mobile classrooms to underserved children. The document also outlines the different stages of an ICT project - planning, development, release/promotion, and maintenance. Finally, it lists 12 different types of social media behaviors.

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Chapter 11: ICT Project for Social Change

Planning a Social Campaign:

Before starting a project or campaign, you should be able to do the necessary paperwork better known
as a Concept Paper.
• This allows experts to see if your project is doable over the time frame that was given and if it is significant
enough to be made into reality.

Concept Paper - It is a document used to convince a panel of potential funders to help a product, program,
or service become a reality

Five Elements of a Concept Paper:

1. Introduction - This includes your mission and vision and a brief introduction of your project /
campaign.
2. Purpose - This includes the reason why the project I campaign is worth your sponsor's time, effort
and money.
3. Description - This includes all the necessary information about the project. It involves the
website/s or page you are going to produce and the purpose of each and how they work in unison.
4. Support - This contains the budget needed for the project, though some concept papers do not
specify any amount requested from the sponsor.
5. Contact Information - This includes information on how the group can be contacted.

Your Project / Campaign must meet the SMART Criteria

S Specific
M Measurable
A Attainable
R Realistic
T Time-Bound
Sample Concept Paper

Project Name: Education on Wheels

Introduction: Education On Wheels is a project with the motto to literate out of school children also
children attending the government schools but dwelling in slums. We bring teachers to the door steps of
these educationally deprived children.

Introduction

Aim
 Our main aim is to literate the children who are deprived of education living below poverty line
in slum areas.
 To confer the education at the doorstep of deprived children.
 To raise the literacy ratio of an area
 To introduce modem & informal education to deprived children.
 To introduce modern study aids, materials to the children going corporation schools.
 To confer values & morels among slum children.

Motive
 The main motive of this project is to literate the children who are deprive of education, dwelling
in slum areas.
 The project is worth sponsoring for it will enable out-of-school youth develop their skills and
intellect. This will also help less fortunate families to have children participate in the free lectures,
seminars and trainings to be conducted by the proponents and invited speakers.

Description
 The project will gather children (out of school youth) & conduct the class inside the bus. The
project will be happening in 5 different barangays in Panabo City every Saturdays of March 2018
from 8:00 am to 12:00noon.
 Attendees will be given free snacks. Leaflets I books will also be available during the discussion
proper.
 Topics to be included on the seminar will be: English, Math, Science, Media and Information
Literacy. Computer Literacy. Cyberspace and Digital Security and Others.
 The project will also launch a website (educationonwheels.org) and a Facebook page at
@educationonwheels

Support and Contact

The estimated budget needed for the project is ranging from 75,000 to 100,000. This includes the fare,
snacks, papers and other related fees.

Contact Information
The proponents can be contacted on the following:
o Phone : 0909-123-4987
o Email : [email protected]
o FB : @educationonwheels

ICT Project Process

Planning
This involves the following tasks:
 Conceptualizing your project
 Researching on available data about your topic
 Setting deadlines and meetings
 Assigning people to various tasks
 Finding a web or blog host
 Creating a site map for your website
 Listing down all applications that you need including web apps
 Funding (if applicable}
Development
It involves the actual creation of the website(s) I page, this involves the production of images,
infographics and etc.
Release and Promotion
It involves that actual release of the website / page for public view and promotion. Promotion
typically starts before the actual release.

Maintenance
It involves responding to feedback of your website I page visitors and continuing to improve the
website/page.

12 Different Behaviors in Social Media

1. The Ultras - check feeds dozens of times a day. Happily, admit their obsession. (14o/o of Facebook
users spend at least 2 hours a day on the network)
2. The Deniers - social media do not control their lives, but gets anxious when unable to access
networks. (20% of Facebook users would feel anxious or isolated if they had to deactivate their
accounts.
3. The Virgins - taking first tentative steps in social media (19% of British people don't use any social
networks
4. The Peacocks - popularity contest, high numbers of followers, fans, likes and retweets. (1 out of
10 Twitter users want more followers than friends.)
5. The Lurkers - hiding in the shadows of cyberspace. Watches what others are saying, but rarely (if
ever) participate themselves. (45°/o of Facebook users described themselves as "observers")
6. The Ranters - mock and mid in face-to-face conversations. Highly opinionated online.
7. The Changelings - adopt completely new personality online so no one knows their real identities.
8. The Ghosts - create anonymous profiles, for fear of giving out personal information to strangers.
9. The Informers - seek admiration by being the first to share the latest trends with audiences.
10. The Approval Seekers - constantly check feeds and timelines after posting. Worry until people
respond.
11. The Quizzers - asking questions allow them to start conversations.
12. The Dippers - access their pages infrequently, often going days, of even weeks without posting.