and the Digital Fourth Way

FORUM-Asia and SEARCH Social Media TA TeamFour Directions International Four Worlds International Institute

Deep Social Networks

Age Sensitive ContextCountry Median Age Populations Under 14

Cambodia 22.1 32.4%

Laos 19.3 40.8%

Indonesia 27.6 28.1%

Philippines 22.5 35.4%

Thailand 33.3 20.8%

Timor Leste 21.8 34.7%

Vietnam 27.4 24.9%

Mainstream Canada 40.4 16.1%

Inuit Canada 20.0 39.0%

First Nations Canada 25.0 35.9%

Métis Canada 27.0 35.1%

The Digital Future

• There are three billion people under 25 on this planet…

• 61% live in Asia.

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What is a Deep Social Network(DSN)?

• Private or public spaces for engaging each other to work on concerns that really matter.

• Social networks connect our computers…

• Deep Social Networks connect our heads, our hearts, our hands and our collective future.

• Applies a principle-centered, culturally respectful approach for creating positive change, while walking a respectful path.

What is the Digital Fourth Way?

• A culturally respectful, principle-centered digital “community operating system” that transcends assimilation, resignation, and conflict.

• A way for creating and amplifying digital communities, organizations, enterprises, alliances, and nations that heal broken trusts and build unity and common purpose.

Why Create Deep Social Networks?

• Building and Strengthening Relationships

• Producing Results

• Amplifying Communities, Organizations, Networks, Alliances and Nations

• Organizing and Implementing Lasting Change

• Cultural Respect, Growth and Protection

• New Economic Models and Relationships

Our SEARCH Initiative

Developing Deep Social Networks and Participatory Media for Actualizing Human Rights, Child Protection, and Democratic Participation.

Emerging Deep Social Networks

• Four Worlds International Institute

• Digital Youth Council

• Colorful Ethnic Youth

• Rongmei Naga

• Child Rights in Practice

• Ethnic Minorities and Indigenous Peoples in South East Asia

• Aboriginal Leadership Development Initiative (Private)

Design Framework

Cordillera, Philippines

November, 2009

Youth Empowering Youth

Collaborating Institutions and NGOsNovember 2009, Cordillera, Philippines:• Students of Mountain Province State Polytechnic College (MPSPC)• Student Representatives of MPSPC Tadian Campus • MPSPC Bontoc Campus Supreme Court Council• Mountain Province Youth Alliance • Montañosa Research & Development Center• Cordillera People’s Alliance (CPA) Mountain Province Chapter• Ap-apaway Bontoc Campus Student Newspaper• Episcopal Diocese of Northern Philippines• Catholic Vicariate of Bontoc Lagawe• Natonin-Paracelis Student Organization• Sta. Rita Parish of Bontoc• Media Center of Mountain Province

Three Major Workshop Goals

1. Provide Skills for Enhancing Networks to Promote, Protect, and Advance Human Rights, Cultures and Freedoms of Indigenous Peoples

2. Train Participants on an Open Platform Utilizing Social Media, Peer to Peer Relationships, Self-Organizing Groups and Large-Scale Collaborations

3. Produce a Three Minute Video on a Human Rights Issue Facing their Community

Youth Empowering Youth•Why is so important that we as young people work together?

•What kind of role do you want to play in your community?

•When young people are given a voice, we can do anything!

Check out these music videos on Civil Rights and United Youth!

Together Participants Learn…• To Use Participatory and Social Media

• The Differences between Social Networks and Deep Social Networks

• To Create a Human Rights Focused Deep Social Network Connecting Your Communities and NGO’s

• To Use the Network to Spread Human Rights Awareness and Protect Children in Your Community

• To Communicate with other Indigenous/Minority Youth Around the World

• The Knowledge and Skills Necessary to Sustain and Grow Deep Social Networks for Actualizing Change

Expressing Our Cultures Through Social Media

• Express Yourself and Your Cultures!

• Using Photos, Blogs, Videos, Music, and Art

Specific Skills Participants Learn

• To Upload Photos and Videos

• To Use Our Emails Professionally and Effectively

• To Send Friends Links of Interesting Websites

• To Use the Latest Social Networking Platforms

• To Utilize Blogs to Get Your Voices Heard

• To Discover Important Events or NGO’s

• To Stay Informed and Connected

• The Many Different Benefits of Social Networks

Social Media Examples

• Colorful Ethnic Youth Documentary Chiengmai, Thailand

• Tel.A.Vision Created by Mercy Centre HIV Students in Bangkok, Thailand

• Moken Youth, Short Film

• Igorot Video Blog

Examples of DSN’s from Our Workshop

• eSadanga – Sadanga Community Social Network

• UGFO Nation MPSPC Bontoc Campus

• USKILA MPSPC Tadian Campus

• Indigenous People Mover MPSPC BontocCampus

• Information Technology MPSPC BopntonCampus

Tools to Remotely Support DSN’s

• Skype• GoToMeeting • Google Documents• MeetMeNow• Email • Chat• Chicky

This part of the training program works towards maintaining sustainable and balanced Deep Social Networks.

Tools to Measure DSN’s

• Google Analytics provides a multi-dimensional analysis of each Deep Social Network for day to day monitoring, evaluation, and improvement.

• The Google Analytics world map feature allows the network creators to view all of the countries their members come from.

Our Approach to Making Change

• Digital Literacy (IC3) +

• Social and Community Media +

• Deep Social Networks and the Digital 4th Way =

• Contributing To A Just, Sustainable and Harmonious World

2010 Work Plan Goals (1 of 5)

• Create youth, ethnic minorities and Indigenous Peoples focal point at the ASEAN Peoples' Centre

• Create a regional youth digital network that includes ethnic minorities and Indigenous young people

2010 Work Plan Goals (2 of 5)

• Support the Task Force on Indigenous Peoples for ASEAN (TF IP ASEAN)

• Support the sustainability of the ASEAN Child Rights Forum within SAPA that includes a focus on ethnic minorities and Indigenous Peoples

• Develop Child Rights training and protection tools that include ethnic minorities and Indigenous Peoples issues in partnership with CPP (Child Protection Partnership)

2010 Work Plan Goals (3 of 5)

• Design, develop, and launch 30 Deep Social Networks (DSNs) for promoting human rights, child protection, and democratic participation

• Develop digital technology capacity to include ethnic minorities and Indigenous People’s perspectives into the ASEAN advocacy processes

2010 Work Plan Goals (4 of 5)

• Create a minimum of 10 DSN Technical Assistance

teams for maintaining, deepening and expanding

DSN’s throughout Thailand, Mekong Delta, the

Philippines, and Indonesia

• Support Mountain Province State Polytechnic College

(MPSPC) institutionalize Indigenous development

programming that supports Indigenous Rights, Child

Protection, and Democratic Participation

2010 Work Plan Goals (5 of 5)

• Support the continued funding of ethnic minorities and Indigenous Peoples issues and development in South East Asia including the support of other NGO’s and the Governments of the the Netherlands and the USA