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Empowerment Technology: Quarter 2

This document discusses how information and communication technologies (ICT) have served as a platform for social change and advocacy in the Philippines. It provides examples of how radio, text messaging, social media, and other digital tools helped enable major protests and demonstrations that shaped history, including the People Power Revolutions and Million People March. Students are then asked to conceptualize their own social campaign on an issue in their community using an online petition platform like Change.org.

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Empowerment Technology: Quarter 2

This document discusses how information and communication technologies (ICT) have served as a platform for social change and advocacy in the Philippines. It provides examples of how radio, text messaging, social media, and other digital tools helped enable major protests and demonstrations that shaped history, including the People Power Revolutions and Million People March. Students are then asked to conceptualize their own social campaign on an issue in their community using an online petition platform like Change.org.

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Empowerment Technology

Quarter 2
Week 5-6

ICT as Platform for Change


 ICT as a medium for advocacy
 Power of social media
 Digital citizenship

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 your thoughts and share them in class.

Lesson Discussion

"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

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 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 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 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.
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 the 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 it. During the past time 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 matters to you. If it is, sign the petition by filling up the
information on the right side of the screen.
5. Alternatively, you can check out petitions of your friends on Facebook, then click on those petitions to read
about it and sign it.

Skill Exploration
Inception of a Social Campaign
With your members. Conceptualize your social campaign.

1. What are the things that your group thinks that could be better in your school or community? List down five
things. You may also interview members of the community (through chat, text or call) or use the data your
individual members have gathered from lesson 1's Skill Exploration.
2. Choose two of the five things you have listed that you think is of highest priority and demands immediate action
of change.
3. Create a write-up about these problems similar using Change.org.
4. Send the link of your Change.org campaign to my assigned account.

Your Turn to Shine (Individual activity)

Name instances in the past where social media has kept you informed about the latest news around the country.

Printed: Write your answer on a yellow pad paper and submit it on the next releasing of modules.
Digital: You may use MS Word or you may write your answer on a yellow pad paper take a picture of it and send
it to my assigned account via messenger.

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