Group 4's Report

1. 1.  Visit Change.Org 
   2.  Change.org works this way. If this is your first time to use Change.org, click Sign up or log in with Facebook. Otherwise, Just input your log-in details.
   3.  You can then start your own petition, but for now, Click on any petition you want under trending petitions

4.  Read the petition description to see if this petition matters to you. If it is, sign the petition by filling up the information on the right side of the screen

5. Share the petition on Facebook to promote it.

* Alternatively, you can check out petitions of your friends on facebook, then click on those petitions to read about it and sign it

• “world’s platform for change”– 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 petition
• change.org’s mission is to help people from around the world create the change they want to see
• for years, 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.

• ICT as a medium for advocacy
• Power of social media
• Digital citizenship

At the end of this lesson, the students should be able to:

1. understand the importance of ICT as a platform for social change;
2. understand the events that ICT helped realize; and
3. use prior ICT knowledge in planning a campaign using online resources

“You never miss the water until the well runs dry” and maybe, the same saying goes for the Internet. How many times has your ISP deprived you of your right to access the Internet? How many times have you been frustrated? But besides not being able to update what you had for dinner last night or updating your profile picture, there are actually far bigger things this world would have missed without the Internet. In fact, ICT in general has played a key role in our history.

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. These campaigns for social change would not have been successful if it were not for ICT.

1. EDSA (People Power Revolution). The People Power Revolution lasted from 1983 to 1986. During a radio broadcast of Radyo Veritas, Cardinal Sins encouraged the Filipinos to help end the regime of then President Ferdinand Marcos. A major protest took place along EDSA from February 22 to 25, 1986 involving two million Filipinos from different sectors. These included civilians, political parties, the military, and religious groups. The radio broadcast helped change the course of  history. Without it, Filipinos would not have been moved into action.
2. EDSA Dos. This is also known as the 2001 EDSA  Revolution, happened during January 17 to 21, 2001. It was fueled after 11 prosecutors of them 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. This is a series of protests that mainly took place in Luneta Park from August 22 to 26, 2013. There were also several demonstrations that happened around key cities in the Philippines and some locations overseas. It was to condemn the misuse of the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF). Though dubbed as the Million People March, the number of total attendees was only around 400,000. Despite that, it was still considered a success and clearly demonstrated how powerful social media campaigns are. The organizers and promoters of the Million People March used Facebook and Change.org as their mediums.
4. Yolanda People Finder. Recent storms in 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. This proved to be successful and is now adapted by more organizations to help people track relatives during calamities.