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• Team


  The set of people grouped together to attain the same goals. Each member of the team is given tasks suited to their abilities and expertise.
• Team structure


  Subdividing the team into smaller ones to distribute workloads equally
• Characteristics of a team

  • Common values
  • Mutual trust
  • Collaboration
  • Supplementary skills
  • Good communication
• Types of team structure


  • Project team
  • Production team
  • Technical team
  • Quality Control team
• Roles of team members in creating ICT content

  • Action-oriented role: Shaper, Implementer, Completer / finisher
  • People-oriented role: Coordinator, Team worker, Resource investigator
  • Thought-oriented role: Monitor - evaluator, Specialist, Plants (sensitives)
• Advocacy


  A public activity by an individual or group that promotes and seeks to address a societal matter
• Developmental Communication


  An approach that includes the exchange of information processes which promotes social development
• Developmental Communication encourages members of the community to recognize, inform, and suggest matters involving social issues
• Recognized Universal Advocacies

  • Advocacy against Poverty
  • Advocacy against Environmental Issues
  • Advocacy against Social Stratification
  • Advocacy against Gender Inequality
  • Advocacy on Mental Health Awareness
  • Advocacy against Corruption
  • Advocacy against Violence
• ICT as an Advocacy and Communication Platform


  Various forms of ICT providing awareness to the citizens
• ICT Advocacy Communication Tools

  • Social Media Networks - Allows advocates to post their thoughts and build networks online.
  • Blog Sites - Allows advocates to publish detailed content about their agendas and purpose.
  • Video Hosting Platforms - Used to broadcast campaign digitally. Allows advocacy groups to tackle their plans remotely.
  • Printed Media - Enables advocacy groups to carry out messages to people on-hand. Various forms of ICT providing awareness to the citizens.
• Social media


  Interactive websites which allow the creation of content and building of virtual network
• The Power of Social Media in the Society

  • HISTORY: Records and keeps the memories of individuals and society
  • CONNECTIVITY: Binds the gaps and differences of nations and develops ways to establish unions
  • ENTERTAINMENT: Provides leisure and amusement that arouses the interests and excitement of people
  • PRODUCTIVITY: Offers tools that simplify and support a wide range of tasks in different fields
  • INFLUENCE: Emanates control and affects people's lives through its contents and functions
  • EDUCATION: Facilitates learning through a selection of resources for different areas
  • INSPIRATION: Gives motivations and insights through its stories and people
  • EXPRESSION: Allows demonstration of thoughts and emotions through its platforms
• Digital Citizen


  An individual utilizing information and communication technology through acquired knowledge and skills
• Nine Elements of Digital Citizenship

  • Access
  • Commerce
  • Communication
  • Literacy
  • Etiquette
  • Law
  • Rights and Responsibilities
  • Health and Wellness
  • Security
• Nine Ps of Digital Citizenship

  • Passwords account/s security
  • Private Information legal identify protection
  • Personal Information network-sharing selection
  • Photographs awareness of AI locating features
  • Property respecting intellectual property
  • Permission indentifies license and attribution
  • Protection avoidance of cyber threats
  • Professionalism exhibiting netiquette
  • Personal Brand building a decent online image
• How Advocacy Works

  1. Organize

  2. Educate

  3. Research

  4. Inform

  5. Encourage

  6. Train

  7. Lobby

  8. Actions
• Organize


  ICT helps systemize and complete information and data related to an advocacy
• Educate


  ICT delivers academic contents provided by the advocates about their chosen societal matters
• Research


  ICT aids gathering and analysis of survey data that may be helpful for the campaign
• Inform


  ICT paves the way of awareness across different generat, nationalities, and places
• Encourage


  ICT stimulates and motivates people because of the ease that technology can offer in call-to-actions activities
• Train


  ICT supplies instructional documents with the various sources available for the advocacy
• Lobby


  ICT makes it possible for ordinary citizens message to reach the authorities of the government to persuade for a certain thought
• Actions


  ICT pushes people to make a move for the common good through its networks and users
• Access

  Pertains to the availability of electronic tools and make equal use of online resources.
• Commerce 


  Refers to digital selling and buying products and services and develop effective trading skills.
• Communication 


  Exhibits the appropriate way of self-expression and providing feedback and authentic information.
• Literacy


  Demonstrates learning the use of technology and application of skills.
• Etiquette


  Manifest proper online behavior and positively handle challenging contents and comments.
• Law


  Abiding legal rules and restrictions in the online community.
• Rights and Responsibilities 


  Obtain the liberty and accountability with one’s actions across online platforms.
• Health and Wellness


  Maintaining well-being physically and psychologically to avoid harm and danger.
• Security


  Precautions on system malware and viruses and cybercrimes such as frauds and scams.
• Advocacy against Poverty


  Is one of the major problems in the society making it the root of other global issues.
• Advocacy against Environmental Issues 


  Climate change, pollution, and waste production are some of the environmental concerns experienced globally, making it one of the pressing issues the human kind has today.
• Advocacy against Social Stratification


  Class and caste systems affected by socioeconomic factors have caused life difficulty to those who are on the lowest rank.
• Advocacy against Gender Inequality 


  A campaign that acknowledges all gender preferences to live equally and receive equivalent opportunities and resources.
• Advocacy on Mental Health Awareness 


  Promotes realizations on the well-being of individuals and overcomes the stigma on mental illnesses.
• Advocacy against Corruption 


  A campaign that calls the transparency on the decisions and actions of the government.