ICT as Platform for Change - A Study of Social Movements

NT TECHNOLOGI ES ICT AS PLATFORM FOR CHANGE 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 have not been succe...

NT TECHNOLOGI ES ICT AS PLATFORM FOR CHANGE 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 have not been successful were not for ICT. 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. A major protest took place along EDSA from February 22 to 25, 1986 involving two million Filipinos from EDSA (People Power Revolution). 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 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 then 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 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 demonstration 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). Million People March 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 campaign are. The organizers and promoters 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 Change.org Change.org is dubbed as the “world platform for change” where anyone from the online community can create a petition and ask other to sign it. During past times, petitions are only done through signing a paper, usually done by a group asking for Change.org Change.org give access to more people by allowing the online community to affix their digital signatures on a petition. Change.org 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 concern, animal abuse, human health concern, and world hunger.