Empowerment Technologies

2. ICT as Platform for
Change
Lesson 3

3. 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.

4. Create a website about
social change
• With your team, you have to research and create a
blog about the different roles of ICT of the different
major events that happened in the Philippines.
• EDSA (People Power Revolution)
• EDSA Dos
• Million People March
• Yolanda People Finder

5. EDSA
(People Power Revolution)
• Lasted from 1983 to 1986
• Cardinal Sin encouraged Filipinos to help end the regime of
the President Ferdinand Marcos.

6. EDSA
(People Power Revolution)
• Two million Filipinos were involved on February 22 to 25,
1986.
• The radio broadcast helped change the course of history.
• Without it, Filipinos would not have moved into action.

7. EDSA Dos
• A.k.a 2001 EDSA Revolution
• Happened on January 17 to 21, 2001
• It was fueled after 11 prosecutors of the President Joseph
Estrada walked out of the impeachment trials

8. EDSA Dos
• As a result, the crowd in EDSA grew over the course of a few
days through text brigades.
• Like People Power Revolution, Edsa Dos would not have
been successful without the text brigades.

9. Yolanda People Finder
• Recent storms in Philippines history gave birth to the People finder
database powered by Google.
• During the typhoon, 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 track relatives during the calamities.

10. Change.org

11. Change.org
• Dubbed as the “World’s platform for change” where anyone from the
online community can create a petition and ask others to sign in.
• During the past times, petitions are only done through signing a
paper, usually done by a group asking for signatures via travel.

12. Change.org
•Change.org’s main mission is to help
people from around the world create
the change they want to see.

13. Performance Task 4.1
Take the Challenge!
• Create a blog post about how social media has helped families,
social workers, and the government in discerning information during
calamities.
• Differentiate it from the past where information is only provided by
the media (TV, radio, and print).