Social Media for Development, Part 2

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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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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