Etech Lesson 11 Summary

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LESSON 11: ICT as Platform for Change

-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.

 Campaigns where ICT was involved
  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 the president Ferdinand Marcos.
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  2. EDSA Dos - This is also known as the 2001 EDSA Revolution, happened during January 17-21,2001. It was also fueled after 11 prosecutes of then President Joseph Estrada walked out of the impeachment trial. 
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  3. Million People March - This is a series of protests that mainly took place in Luneta Park from August 22 to 26, 2013.It was to condemn the misuse of the Priority Development Assistance Fund(PDAF). 


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  4. Yolanda People Finder -  Recent storms in the 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 their relatives.
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----------  CHANGE.ORG  ----------
  -Change.org is dubbed as the "world's platform for change" where anyone form 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 signature via travel. Change.org gives access to more people by allowing the online community to affix their digital signatures on a petition. 







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