The document discusses the role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as a platform for social advocacy and change, highlighting its effectiveness in historical movements like the EDSA revolution and modern protests such as the Million People March. It emphasizes the importance of digital citizenship and online platforms like Change.org for facilitating petitions and societal engagement. Students are encouraged to understand ICT's impact and become proactive digital citizens while utilizing online tools for advocacy.

1. LESSON 13
A Slide Presentation for Empowerment Technologies
Students

2. ICT as a
Platform for
Change
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3. Topics:
✔ICT as a medium for advocacy
✔Power of social media
✔Digital citizenship
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4. Objectives:
At the end of this lesson, the students should
be able to:
1. Identify issues wherein ICTs used for a social
movement;
2. Analyze the importance of ICT as a vital tool for
change. 4

5. What is Advocacy
is a way of expressing views,
opinions, concerns information
access and on establishing to all
one’s rights and responsibilities
through any possible means or
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6. What is Advocacy
is a way of expressing views,
opinions, concerns information
access and on establishing to all
one’s rights and responsibilities
through any possible means or
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7. The Role of ICT
in Recent History

8. EDSA (People Power
Revolution)
* During a radio broadcast of
Radyo Veritas in 1986,
Cardinal Sin encouraged the
Filipinos to help end the
regime of then president
Ferdinand Marcos.
* A major protest took pace
along EDSA from February
22-25, 1986 – involving two
million Filipinos from 8
source:

9. EDSA Dos (2001 EDSA
Revolution)
* EDSA Dos happened
during January 17–21,
2001. It fueled when
eleven prosecutors
walked out during the
impeachment of then
President Joseph
Estrada.
* This revolution would
not have been successful 9
source:

10. Million People March
* This is a series of protests
that mainly took place in
Luneta Park from August 22-
26, 2013 – to condemn the
misuse of the Priority
Development Assistance Fund
(PDAF).
* The organizers and
promoters of the Million
People March used Facebook 10
source: https://images.gmanews.tv/

11. Yolanda People Finder
* Recent storms in Philippine
history gave birth to the People
Finder Database powered by
Google.
* During typhoon Yolanda
(Haiyan), the People Finder was a
vital tool for people across the
globe to locate the situation of
their relatives.
* It is now adapted by most 11
source: https://www.climate.gov/

12. Digital Citizenship

13. What is Digital Citizenship?
 A digital citizen is a person using information
technology in order to engage in society, politics,
education, and government.
 Digital citizenship is how we should act when we are
using digital tools, interacting with others online, and
what should be taught to help the next generation be
better stewards of this technology.
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14. “
Don’t push
people where
you want to be;
meet them
where they are.”
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Meghan Keaney
Anderson
VP in Marketing,
Hubspot

15. CHANGE.ORG

16. What is 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 times, 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 16

17. The Mission
Change.org’s mission is to help
people from around the world
create the change they want
to see.
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18. Signing an
Online Petition in
Change.org

19. 1. Visit Change.org
Open your
browser and type
“http://change.or
g” on the address
bar.
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20. 2. Sign up / Log in
If it is your
first time to
use
Change.org,
click Sign up
or Log in with
Facebook or
Google
account.
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21. 3. Select a Topic to Support
Select a topic
to create a
kind of issue
you will be
petitioning or…
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22. 4. Browse Existing
Petitions
…because you
are new, just
simply click
browse to look
for existing
petitions you
may be
interested to
support to.
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23. 5. Read the Petition
Read the
petition
description to
see if this
petition
matters to
you. If it does,
sign the
petition.
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24. 6. Share the Petition
You may also
share the
petition on
Facebook or
any social
networking
sites to
promote it.
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25. Lesson Summary
* ICT has helped improved communication when
Filipinos needed it the most.
* Radyo Veritas helped in the success of EDSA People
Power Revolution.
* Text brigade helped in the success of EDSA Dos.
* Social Media sites (Facebook, Twitter) helped in the
success of Million People March.
* Technology like People Finder helped bring comfort
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26. Lesson Summary
* Change.org is an online petition platform that
allows the online community to create or sign a
petition.
* Making use of online technologies can be a big
help when promoting a campaign, especially for
online community.
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27. Credits:
Special thanks to all the people who made and released
these awesome resources for free:
✔ Presentation template provided by Slide Carnival
✔ Photographs by:
Unsplash | GMA News | OfficialGazette.gov.ph |
Climate.gov | moonmon1310.wordpress |
Change.org
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