Activity 2:

I am Media Information Literate Individual
GUIDE QUESTIONS:
1. How did social networking help in the Philippine elections?
2.How did the Asia Foundation help the advocacies of some human rights-based organizations?
3.How did USAID and the authors help non- government organizations help in their advocacies and objectives?
ANSWERS:
1.The network helps the people to sign up for the system and to post their observations and comments. 2.The participants are started using their organizational or personal online accounts in promoting their causes and have adopted a strategic approach to conduct human rights advocacy. They use #hashtags to make President Noynoy Aquino aware of the different concerns of advocates.
3.The Asia Foundation has long partnered with the organizations who try to move forward through technology, helping to sponsor in May 2005 the first Philippine Blogging Summit. Five years later, in the rapidly transforming social media landscape, we supported civil society organizations to leverage this technology to reach out to the general public. Human right base organizations underwent a training on “Digital Activism”. This focused on the use of social networking sites (Facebook), Blogging (WordPress), microblogging (Twitter), web tools and applications (Google Documents), live streaming and mobile activism.
USAID, conducted the first series of trainings in June 2010. Out of 37 human rights base organizations, including representatives from the Commission on Human Rights, that participated, 30 created their official Twitter account while 16 have official Facebooks accounts. Monthly monitoring of these social media accounts reveal that they continue to be active with an average of one post per week that is human rights related.