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ICT As Platform For Change

The document discusses how ICT has played a key role in social change and advocacy in the Philippines' history, citing examples such as the People Power Revolution where radio broadcasts encouraged Filipinos to protest, the EDSA Dos revolution where text brigades spread information, and more recent protests that utilized social media and online petitions to organize large numbers of people. It emphasizes how these social movements would not have been as successful without the use of information and communication technologies to coordinate and spread information.

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ICT As Platform For Change

The document discusses how ICT has played a key role in social change and advocacy in the Philippines' history, citing examples such as the People Power Revolution where radio broadcasts encouraged Filipinos to protest, the EDSA Dos revolution where text brigades spread information, and more recent protests that utilized social media and online petitions to organize large numbers of people. It emphasizes how these social movements would not have been as successful without the use of information and communication technologies to coordinate and spread information.

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ICT AS PLATFORM

• ICT as medium
for advocacy
• Power of social

FOR CHANGE media


• Digital
Citizenship

Lesson 11
THINK ABOUT THIS

For a moment, imagine the Internet


has disappeared and will never be
back. What do you think will
happen?
“You never miss the water
DO YOU AGREE? until the well runs dry.”

• How many times has your


ISP deprived your right to
access the internet?

• ICT has played a KEY


ROLE in our history
THE ROLE OF ICT IN
RECENT HISTORY
The Philippines has been one of a few nations that demonstrate
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)
• Lasted from 1983 – 1986
• During a RADIO BROADCAST (Radyo
Veritas), Cardinal Sin encouraged
Filipinos to help end the regime of
Pres. Marcos
• Major protest at EDSA (Feb. 22-25,
1986) – 2 million Filipinos
• Without the RADIO BROADCAST
Filipinos would not have been moved
into action.
2. EDSA DOS
• 2001 EDSA Revolution (January 17-21,
2001)
• Fueled after 11 prosecutors of the
President Joseph Estrada walked out
of the impeachment trial
• The crowd in EDSA grew over the
course of a few days through TEXT
BRIGADES
3. MILLION PEOPLE MARCH
• Series of protests in Luneta Park
(August 22-26, 2013)
• To condemn the misuse of the Priority
Development Assistance Fund (PDAF)
• Number of attendees was only around
400,000
• Organizers and promoters of the
Million People March used Facebook
and Change.org as mediums
4. YOLANDA PEOPLE FINDER
• Recent storms gave birth to the People finder database powered by
Google
• Yolanda: People Finder was a vital tool to track the situation of their
relatives
CHANGE.ORG
• “world’s platform for change”
• One can create a petition and ask others to sign
it
• Allows online community to affix their digital
signatures on a petition

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