My implementation of the Social Media for Development course developed by Emmanuel Lallana, PhD for the UN AP-CICT.

1. Social Media for
Development
Day 1:August 7, 2013
National Computer Institute
Ruben Canlas Jr
Based on materials originally developed by
Emmanuel Lallana, PhD
for UN AP-CICT
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2. 2. Social Media are
Transforming Society
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3. 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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4. 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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5. Video: Sugata Mitra
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6. Peer to peer
teaching
(Student-
driven)
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7. Khan Academy + YouTube: self-
paced learning with social media
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8. Ubiquitous DPWH
The people are watching
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9. How to do a Tourism campaign
The people are participating
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10. The people are debating
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11. 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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12. Private effort to help schools
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13. Stats:
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16. We tend to brand as “counterproductive”
anything that’s not familiar to us
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20. Social media
and urban
management
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21. Sonny
Angara is
said to
have won
Senate
because
of
effective
use of
social
media
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22. Social
media
savvy
officials
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23. Social media for lawmaking
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25. http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/crowdsourcing-icelands-constitution/
Iceland
succeeded in
crowdsourced
lawmaking...
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26. 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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27. Hontiveros supporters used social media to
pit her against Nancy Binay...
It backfired.
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28. Comments from
my FB friends
(non-Binay
supporters)
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29. Civil Society
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30. Civil Society
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31. 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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43. 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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