PLATFOR
Objectives:
Share anecdotes of how people have used ICTs
as part of a social movement, change, or cause
to illustrate aspects of digital citizenship.
Illustrate the Then and
Now of the society in
terms of ICT.
Then & Now
How people used ICTs as a part of social
change or movement?
How ICT becomes a medium for advocacy
and developmental communication?.
ICT as Platform for
Change
• ICT is a tool, medium, and force in
bringing about action and mobilize
change in a population, society, or
culture.
• It is the fastest way to spread, share,
and access information anywhere in
the world.
ICT as Medium for
Advocacy and
Developmental
Communication
What is Advocacy?
Advocacy is a process of
supporting and enabling
people to express, defend, and
promote their rights, concern
and views
ICT is a helpful tool in
human development and
country.
ICT can help in accessing learning
resources for students, announcement
of important information for the
people, and communicating
government services to the people,
The Social Power of
Social Media
• Social media can be an environment
to encourage, communicate, share
stories, get opinions, and exercise the
freedom to say what people want.
Social media can:
1. Promote social change or advance reforms
2. Support social justice or create social
movements.
4. Stop bullying or discrimination.
5. Help during calamities or tragedies.
6. Allow people to have responsibility to engage
as citizens.
Digital Citizenship and the
Filipino People
What are Digital
Citizens?
Digital Citizens are “those who use the Internet
regularly and effectively” as defined by K.
Mossberger, et al.
Digital citizens are generally skillful and
knowledgeable about the use of the Internet
through mobile phones, web ready devices, and
computers to intermingle with the government,
private, and public groups.
1. Liberalism – a political philosophy
founded on the ideas of liberty and
equality
2. Republicanism – ideology of being citizen
and the people are the sovereign power
3. Ascriptive Hierarchy – no one person or
organization is in control over the internet
Elements of Digital
Citizenship
1. Digital Access
Or Internet access is the basic element to becoming a
digital citizenn
Elements of Digital
Citizenship
2. Digital Commerce
Or e-Commerce is increasing and is hre to stay, as
selling and buying of goods online becomes the norm
for shopping for its ease and savings.
Elements of Digital
Citizenship
3. Digital Communication
Has changed the way we relate and communicate
with one another.
Elements of Digital
Citizenship
4. Digital Literacy
Deals with learning and then sharing or teaching
about the technology available online.
Elements of Digital
Citizenship
5. Digital Etiquette
Is appropriated conduct on the internet and is very
challenging, considering that people come from
different backgrounds and cultures.
Elements of Digital
Citizenship
6. Digital Law
Deals with the laws and ethics in society as a whole
Elements of Digital
Citizenship
7. Digital Rights and Responsibilities
Is the right to privacy and speech protection in the
digital world.
Elements of Digital
Citizenship
8. Digital Health and Wellness
The dangers of using the computer and the internet
have manifested and have caused suffering to digital
citizents.
Elements of Digital
Citizenship
9. Digital Security
The dangers of identity and information theft,
hacking of computers for information, and many
threats caused by other digital citizens are very real.
Group Activity:
Using your mobile phones research the
events assigned to your group and write
how social media affects the success of
the said events.
Group 1: EDSA and Cardinal Sin’s call to
action via radio broadcast.
Group 2: EDSA dos and the use of text
messaging to mobilize people.
Group 3: Duterte Administration war
against drugs
How ICT becomes a helpful tool
in human development and
country?
Write and articulate how ICT tools
and platforms have changed the
way people communicate, and
how social change has been
brought about the use of ICTs.
A. Identification.
1. gap between digital citizens and non-
digital citizens.
2. A process of supporting and enabling
people to express, defend, and
promote their rights , concerns and
views.
3. The basic elements to becoming a
digital citizen.
4. Ideology of being citizen and the
people are the sovereign power
5. No one person or organization is in
control over the internet.
B. Write T if the statement is TRUE and
FL if FALSE.
6. Social media can promote social
change or advance reforms.
7. Digital Literacy deals with the
appropriate conduct on the internet.
8. Digital citizens are the ways on how
people use the internet regularly and
effectively
9. ICT helps in the spread of awareness
of important issues that surround our
environment.
10. The right to privacy and speech protection
in the digital world is not possible
C. Write and articulate how ICT tools
and platforms have changed the way
people communicate, and how social
change has been brought about the
use of ICTs.
