Social Media for Development, Part 2
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Social Media for Development
Day 1: August 7, 2013National Computer Institute
Ruben Canlas Jr
Based on materials originally developed by Emmanuel Lallana, PhD
for UN AP-CICT
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2. Social Media are Transforming Society
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Social media are transforming us in the way we live and work:
• Communication
• Education
• Urban planning and management
• Politics and lawmaking
• Religion
• Citizen engagement (stronger civil society)
• Etc
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But there are also perceived issues and drawbacks
• Productivity loss
• Addiction to social media
• Privacy
• Fraud: Identity Theft
• Catfishing
• The Digital Divide
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Video: Sugata Mitra
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Peer to peer teaching (Student-driven)
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Khan Academy + YouTube: self-paced learning with social media
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Ubiquitous DPWH
The people are watching
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How to do a Tourism campaign
The people are participating
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The people are debating
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Using social media to get teachers for
public schools
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/273477/pinoyabroad/news/teach-for-the-philippines-looking-for-fil-am-teachers-for-pinoy-kids
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Private effort to help schools
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Stats:
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Stats:
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Stats:
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We tend to brand as “counterproductive” anything that’s not familiar to us
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Social media and urban
management
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Sonny Angara is said to
have won Senate because
of effective use of social media
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Social media savvy
officials
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Social media for lawmaking
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http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/crowdsourcing-icelands-constitution/
Iceland succeeded in
crowdsourced lawmaking...
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130405/11283422600/icelandic-politicians-ignore-crowdsourced-constitution-pirate-party-rejoices.shtml
It failed to pass the new constitution,
but succeeded in electing a party that promised
digital rights
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Hontiveros supporters used social media to pit her against Nancy Binay...
It backfired.
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Comments from my FB friends (non-Binay supporters)
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Civil Society
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Civil Society
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Caveat: Study was based on time alone. They asked respondents how much time they spend on social media and interpreted that as counterproductive
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Exercise: Internet Hunt
• Search for crowdfunding
• Search for Open IDEO
• What are they?
• How could they help solve social problems like poverty, education, food security, etc?
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