Online collaboration is the process of connecting users digitally to communicate in an

online space. Online collaboration is usually supplemented using a software system that
lets team members chat using video, audio and text.

Purpose of Online Collaboration

● Online collaboration lets a group of people work together in real-time over the
Internet.
● Those engaged in online collaboration can work together on word processor
documents without needing to be in the same room at the same time.
● Projects can be done much faster.

WEB PORTALS
Web portals are websites that contain information from different sources and place them
in one location in a uniform way.

Team Structures, Dynamics and Responsibilities

ICT DIRECTOR
● Prepare strategic and operational plans for Information Communication
Technology.
● Manage and provide oversight for the information of an ICT system.
● Ensure development, implementation and maintenance of all policies related to
ICT.
● Develop and manage the planning and budgeting for the ICT services.

NETWORK TEAM

● Help the team to plan and prioritize workloads and projects

● Manage the team performance
● Manage day-to-day operational activities
● Be a technical escalation point for the team
● Have excellent communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively
face-to-face.

INFORMATION SYSTEM GROUPS

 ● Provide support for the maintenance and development of the corporate
information system
● Project management and business project change consultancy service
● Supports the delivery of ICT projects aligned to the ICT plan

SYSTEMS AND SERVER TEAM

● Undertake analysis, development, implementation, integration to support core

ICT application
● Participate in the progressive rotation of analyst

DESKTOP AND MEDIA SERVICES TEAM

● Staffing of events
● Video editing and post production
● Product Research for new audio-video technology
● Preparation of files
● Audio and Video editing
 Online Collaboration: Purpose and Tools

Slack

Slack was meant for organizational communication, it has been slowly turning into a
community platform. Many of these communities are categorized by topics which a
group of people may be interested in discussing.

InVision

A tool created specifically for designers, it can turn designs into fully active prototypes
with gestures, transitions and animations. Clients can provide feedback in the
comments, and you can keep them up-to-date with the project’s progress in real time
through actionable to-do lists.

Google Keep

A note-taking service developed by Google. Google Keep is available on the web, and
has mobile apps for the Android and iOS mobile operating systems.

Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides

Productivity apps that let you create different kinds of online documents, work on them
in real time with other people, and store them in your Google Drive online.

Google Meet [previously Google Hangouts]

Anyone with a Google Account can create an online meeting with up to 100 participants.
Businesses, schools, and other organizations can take advantage of advanced features,
including meetings with up to 250 internal or external participants and live streaming to
up to 100,000 viewers within a domain.

iWork

Includes Keynote, a presentation program; the word processing and desktop publishing
application Pages; and the spreadsheet application Numbers.

Trello

Web-based project management application tool which you can share with others in real
time. There's also a nice progress gauge so you can keep an eye on your project's
pipeline, as well as the ability to set appointment reminders.

Yammer
A social network for business, provides a platform for you to communicate and
collaborate privately with your colleagues. Employees sign in and can use the platform
via web, desktop or mobile. You can chat openly or privately, and share documents.

Prezi

A presentation tool that can be used as an alternative to traditional slide-making

programs. Instead of slides, it makes use of one large canvas that allows you to pan
and zoom to various parts of the canvas and emphasize the ideas presented there.

Google Drive

A file storage and synchronization service developed by Google. It allows multiple

people to work on the same office files online in real-time.

Microsoft® Office Online

Uses cloud-based versions of your MS Office.It allows multiple people to work on the
same office files online in real-time.It allows its users to access and use Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, Skype and other Collaboration Tools.

Facebook Groups

It allows users in your group to communicate ideas and to contribute to the content of
the group page.

WordPress

A Website and Blog site creation online platform. It allows multiple users to contribute to
a single blog or website.

Zoom

Users can choose to record sessions, collaborate on projects, and share or annotate on
one another's screens, all with one easy-to-use platform.

Cisco Webex

Keeps your teams connected through messaging, file sharing, whiteboarding and
calling.
 Introduction to Interactive Multimedia

Multimedia or rich media, provides more dynamic elements. Rich media is any form of
content that deviates from normal text and static images and engages with the end user.
Audio clips, music, video, virtual reality, and flash animation all fall into this example.

1. Videos - Through video hosting sites, you can take a video and show it to the entire
world. e.g. YouTube
2. Sounds, Music, or Audio - If videos are too much for you, you can always record
sounds. You can now share your sound bites to the entire world. e.g. SoundCloud,
AudioBoom, Blurberry, & Buzzsprout
3. Online Games - Game developers now create what is called "browser-based
games". You do not need to install these games to your computer as they run in most
updated web browsers. e.g. Slither.io, Neopets, Hero Zero, Dragon Ball Online
Zenkai, Tetris, & TopWar

4. Online Tests - Online survey forms and tests that automatically display the results
when finished. e.g. Online IQ and Personality Tests

5. Courseware - Online courses that simulate the classroom online. e.g. E-Learning
Courses using LMS such as Canvas, Blackboard, Schoology, Moodle & Google
Classroom

6. Podcasts - An episodic series of audio or text files streamed online. e.g. Stuff You
Should Know, TED Talks, The Starters, Quick to Listen, The Holy Post, & Ear
Biscuits

7. Vodcasts - An episodic series of videos streamed online. e.g. YouTube Series such
as TED Ed & Good Mythical Morning

Courseware - online courses that simulates the classroom online

 The Role of ICT (as a Platform for Change) in Recent
History

1. EDSA (People 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 ADSA from January 22 - 25, 1986 involving two million Filipinos from different
sectors.

2. EDSA Dos

This is also known as the 2021 EDSA Revolution. 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

It was to condemn the misuse of the Priority Development Assistance Fund, also known
as PDAF. The organizers and promoters of the Million People March used Facebook
and Change.org as their mediums.

4. 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 not
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. Change.org gives access to
more people by allowing the online community to affix their digital signatures on a
petition. 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.
 Creating a Concept Paper
Concept Paper - a document used to convince a panel of potential funders to help a
product, program, or service become reality.

Five elements of a concept paper:

1. Introduction - includes your group’s mission and vision and a brief introduction
of your project.
2. Purpose - includes the reasons why this project is worth your group and your
sponsor;s time, effort, and money.
3. Description - includes all necessary information about the project. In ICT, it
involves the sites you are going to produce and the purpose of each and how
they work in unison.
4. Support - contains the budget needed for the project. Some concept papers do
not specify any amount requested from the sponsor.
5. Contact Information - includes information on how the group can be contacted.

Simplified ICT Project Process Overview

● Planning - involves the following tasks (but not limited to):
a. Conceptualizing your project;
b. Researching on available data about your topic;
c. Setting deadlines and meetings;
d. Assigning people to various tasks;
e. Finding a web or blog host;
f. Creating a map site for your website;
g. Listing down all applications that you need including web apps;
funding (if applicable).
● Development - involves actual creation of the website(s); the production of images,
infographics, etc.
● Release and Promotion - involves the actual release of the website for public viewing
and promoting it. Promotion typically starts before the actual release.
● Maintenance - involves responding to feedback of your site visitors and continuing to
improve the website.
 Monitoring Site Statistics on Different Platforms

Wordpress
- Once you log in to your WordPress account, you will be on the Reader tab by default.
Simply click on My Sites and from there you will see the statistics for your blog.

Facebook
- When you click on any facebook page that you manage, you will see the Insights tab
located at the top of your page. Clicking on it will give you in depth statistics about your
Facebook page.

The Insights Tab contains the following menus:

● Overview - contains the summary of statistics about your page.

● Promotions - contains paid advertisements you will have made for your Facebook page.
● Followers - contains statistical data of your followers.
● Likes - contains the statistics about the trend of the page likes.
● Reach - contains information about the number of people which was reached by
individual posts.
● Page Views - includes statistical data about your page visitors like total number of views
and views by age or gender, country,city and more.
● Page Previews - shows statistical data on how many times your page preview has been
seen.
● Actions on page - actions done on your page by visitors. This may involve clicking on
certain functions that you put on your page like buttons.
● Posts - contains data showing when (day and time) your site visitors visit your site;
● Events - includes statistical data that involves the events you have created on your
page. If no event is created, no data will be displayed here.
● Videos - statistical data that involves the videos you have added to your page. If no
video is added, no data will be displayed here.
● People - contains statistics about your audience;s demographics (age, location, gender,
language, and country). It also includes demographics about the people you have
reached and engaged with.
Demographics refers to the statistics characterizing human population usually divided by
age, gender, income, location and language.
● Messages - involves statistical data of your conversations with your audience. If no
conversations were made, no data will be shown.
● Orders - shows the number of orders that the page received during a period.
 The Disadvantages of ICT

Cybercrimes are illegal acts done through the use of the Internet.
In 2012, Stephen Nale (Complex.com) posted a list of ten most common Internet
cyber crimes as follows:

1. Phishing/Spoofing – the act of sending multiple emails to multiple users in

hopes of having a number of them clicking on the links or malwares attached to
the email.
2. Blackmail/Extortion – the act of using the Internet to threaten or damage
someone’s reputation to extort money or anything else of value. This can
be avoided if you are aware of what you should post on the Internet.
3. Accessing Stored Communications – or hacking; the act of obtaining
unauthorized access to data from a computer network.
4. Sports Betting – the act of wagering on any sports event over the Internet. In
some countries, gambling (including sports betting) is illegal even if you are doing
it over the Internet.
5. Non-Delivery of Merchandise – the act of devising a scheme wherein a culprit
posts an item or service for sale over the Internet and once the transactions have
been done, does not really give the item or service.
6. Electronic Harassment – the act of anonymously using the Internet to harass,
abuse, threaten, or annoy other people.
7. Child Pornography – the act of using the Internet to show child pornography.
This act is highly punishable by law.
8. Drug Trafficking – the act of selling illegal substances using the Internet.
9. Criminal Copyright Infringement – the act of piracy mainly for financial gain. In
late 2014, the number one pirate website, ThePirateBay, was raided for the
second time due to years of pirating movies, music, games, books, and other
software. These kinds of websites earn money through advertising.
10. Prostitution – the act of using the internet to engage in prostitutions.
 Combating Cyber Crimes
● Network Security. Before a hacker can get through the unauthorized files he or she is
targeting, the hacker has to get through several security measures like firewalls, secure
connections, passwords, anti-malwares, and data encryptions.
● Investigation. URL tracing and logging are used by websites to track your unique IP
addresses. This can be used by investigators to trace hackers. In piracy, trackers are
used to identify IP addresses currently sharing a pirated file.
● Penalties. More and more laws are being created and implemented today. Penalties
include both a fine and imprisonment.