Empowerment

Technologies
ICT as Platform
for Change

• 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.
• What will be your contribution to
campaign Social Change using your
ICT knowledge?
 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.
 CHANGE.ORG

• Change.org gives access to

more people by allowing the
online community to affix
their digital signatures on a
petition.
 The Mission
Change.org’s mission is
to help people from
around the world create
the change they want to
see.
 CHANGE.ORG
• Sample petitions raised were: economic
problems, criminal injustice, abuse of
human rights, lack of education,
environmental concerns, animal abuse,
human health concerns and world hunger.
 Signing an Online Petition
Activity
1. Visit Change.org
2. Click on Log in on the upper right hand of the
page.
3. Click Sign up or log in with Facebook.
4. You can then start your own petition, but for now,
click on any petition you want under trending
petitions.
5. 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.
6. Share the petition on Facebook to promote it.
Thank You