Digital Citizenship Reviewer

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### Digital Citizenship Principles These principles highlight the rights and responsibilities of individuals in the digital age. 1. **It is a principle of Digital Citizenship respect the rights of others to participate and have an opinion.** 2. **It is an element of Digital Citizenship which focus on the ability for users to recognize that much of the economy is regulated online.** ### The Role of ICT in Recent History Throughout recent history, the Philippines has been one of the few nations that demonstrates unity for a call to action or social change. These campaigns for social change would have not been successful if it were not for ICT. 1. **EDSA (PEOPLE POWER REVOLUTION):** A major protest that took place along EDSA from February 22 to 25, 1986 involving 2 million Filipinos from different sectors. Cardinal Sin encouraged the Filipinos to help and the regime of the former President Ferdinand Marcos through Radyo Veritas which helped to change the course of history. 2. **EDSA Dos:** This is also known as 2001 EDSA Revolution happened during Jan 17-21, 2001. It was fueled after 11 prosecutors in then President Joseph Estrada walked out of the impeachment trial. As a result, the people in EDSA grew over the course of a few days through text messages. 3. **MILLION PEOPLE MARCH:** This is a series of protests that mainly took place in Luneta park from August 22 to 26, 2013. There were several demonstrations that happened around the key cities in the Philippines, and some locations overseas. It was to condemn the misuse of the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF). Though dubbed as the Million People March, the number of total attendees was only around 400,000. 4. **SUPER TYPHOON YOLANDA:** Rescue storms in the Philippines gave birth to the People Finder data base powered by Google. During Typhoon Yolanda, the People Finder was a vital tool for people across the globe to trace the situation of their relatives. This proved to be successful and is now adapted by more organizations to help people. ### Digital Citizenship Refers to the utilization of information technology (IT) in order to engage in society, politics, and government. K. Mossberger, et al. define digital citizens as "those who use the Internet regularly and effectively." #### Digital Citizenship Principles 1. **Engage Positively** * respect the rights of others to participate and have an opinion * ask before tagging other people for posting photos * report offensive or illegal content * stand up to bullies and about cyberbullying — protect your friends * don't respond to hurtful or nasty comments — block and report cyberbullying * speak to your parents or trusted adult about upsetting online experiences * report threats of violence to the police (collect the evidence to show them). 2. **Know your online world** * learn how new tools will help you explore the online world * recognize online risks and how to manage them * look out for suspicious email and scams * use secure websites for financial and retail services * create passwords strong, private and unique * know how to report bullying behaviour on social media sites. 3. **Choose consciously** * choose privacy and security settings carefully and check them regularly * choose friends wisely online — not everybody online is who they claim to be, regularly * review your connections and remove people * if you have made a mistake apologize and take down offensive material as soon as possible * ask for permission before uploading pictures of your friends. ### ICT as Medium for Advocacy #### CHANGE.ORG * dubbed as the "world's platform for change" where anyone from online community can create a petition and ask others to sign it. * gives access to more people by allowing the online community to affix their digital signatures on a petition. * its mission is to help people from around the world created the change they want * hosted several petitions that help solve the following problems: economic problems, criminal injustice, abuse of human rights, lack of education, environmental concerns, animal abuse, human health concerns, and world hunger. ### Fake News Fake news is a type of journalism or propaganda that consists of deliberate misinformation or hoaxes spread via traditional print and broadcast news media or online social media. Research on current events or issue in the Philippines on which have been the center of controversy and may have been tagged as "Fake News". #### A conspiracy brought to you by Big Pharma According to this theory, pharmaceutical giants that have made a fortune off of drugs are hiding simple, effective coronavirus treatments so that they can profit from the sale of future vaccine. The anti-vaccine movement piggybacks on the delayed treatment conspiracy.