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NetAktibismo: Online and Offline

NetAktibismo: Online and Offline. ICTs and Social Transformation in the Philippines. A.G. Alegre/Foundation for Media Alternatives Asia Internet Rights Conference/Seoul 8-10 November. Roadmap. Context : Strategic ICT Agenda and Role of Civil Society/Social Movements

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NetAktibismo: Online and Offline

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  1. NetAktibismo: Online and Offline ICTs and Social Transformation in the Philippines A.G. Alegre/Foundation for Media Alternatives Asia Internet Rights Conference/Seoul 8-10 November

  2. Roadmap • Context: Strategic ICT Agenda and Role of Civil Society/Social Movements • Social Movements Weave the Web: ICTs for Social Transformation in the Philippines – 3 cases • NetActivism in the ouster of Estrada • CSO Community Site Building • Civil Society Engagement in ICT Policy • Initial Learnings: Implications for Social Activists AGAlegre/FMA 2001

  3. Context Philippines in Transition • Painful transition from dictatorship to full democracy: EDSA1/2 & beyond • Economic stagnation and persistence of poverty & underdevelopment • Role of civil society organizations & social movements AGAlegre/FMA 2001

  4. Context ICTs for Empowerment & Development • CSOs between “the hope and the hype” • Digital Inclusion: connnectivity, capacity, content • CSOs & social movements as “info-mediaries” AGAlegre/FMA 2001

  5. NetAktibismo: 3 Cases ICT initiatives for Social Transformation • NetAktibismo in the ouster of President Erap Estrada • CSO Community Website Building • (Civil Society Engagement in ICT Policy Development) AGAlegre/FMA 2001

  6. NetAktibismo 1 NetAktibismo in ouster of Erap • Context: corruption and economic plunder cases culmination of political leadership crisis leading to broad campaign: R I O • CSOs and social movements at the forefront of awareness-raising, organizing and mobilization • “EDSA II” ousted Erap on 20 Jan 2001 after 18 months in power AGAlegre/FMA 2001

  7. NetAktibismo 1 ICT-based Interventions • E-Mail/Mailing Lists • WWWeb-based: websites • Offline mobilizations by online activists • SMS/Cell Phone activism AGAlegre/FMA 2001

  8. NetAktibismo 1 E-Mail & Mailing Lists • More than 60 mailing lists: E-Groups • E-lagda (110,000), KOMPIL2, neveragain.NET, oust-erapnow… • Main information dissemination tool: • Impeachment summaries and transcripts - compiled by KOMPIL or “lifted” from news sites (Inquirer, Business Day) • Wire service reports and news clippings • Posting of schedules of events (meetings, rallies) • Transmission of documents and photos (contents of the “second envelope”) • Interactive: discussion & debate AGAlegre/FMA 2001

  9. NetAktibismo 1 World Wide Web-Based: Sites • Websites: news & info sites, portals, Erap joke & parody sites, etc. • More than 200 anti-Erap sites emerged • From basic text-based sitesto multi-media sites (e.g. gifs & jpegs, streaming media) • INQ7.net reached 2M hits/day (majority ofhits come from abroad) AGAlegre/FMA 2001

  10. NetAktibismo 1 Offline Mobilizations by Online Activists • Online-Offline nexus > the case of E-Lagda(e-signature) list (110,000 members) • petitions & letter-writing campaigns sent/faxed to Malacanang, embassies abroad, foreign governments, Cabinet members • Delegations in rallies: internet-themed props, posters, T-shirts (Erap as “virus”, “Delete!”, etc.) • Mobilization of Overseas Filipinos: petitions, letters, embassy pickets AGAlegre/FMA 2001

  11. NetAktibismo 1 Cell Phones: SMS > Text Activism • New & powerful medium of social protest & mobilization: Short Message Systems/”Texting” • Short announcements (e.g. mass mob, meetings) • Alerts: troop movements, monitoring of meetings of Erap camp, (+ rumors) • Political jokes • Text campaigns (texting OP, senators, etc.) • Interface with the Web • At height of People Power II revolt: 160 million text messages a day! AGAlegre/FMA 2001

  12. NetAktibismo 1 ERAP ENTANGLED IN THE WEB AGAlegre/FMA 2001

  13. NetAktibismo 1: Learnings & Challenges • Affirmed ICTs are enabling tools for social change • E-mail is “weapon of choice”/killer app; + Text • from social protest to promoting citizenship, nation-building But: depends on who uses it, for what purpose • Lack of accessfuels creativity • Low PC/internet diffusion > Texting • Interphase between traditional-new-nextgen media • Net/Text activism mobilizes new constituencies • White collar workers/professional-managerial class • Youth: “generation text”, internet/cable TV generation • Overseas Filipinos: 7 million AGAlegre/FMA 2001

  14. NetAktibismo 1: Learnings & Challenges • Need to retool traditional constituencies • search for new modes of social organizing for new times • Need to renew ICT as Community Builder • Linking individual empowerment to social empowerment • C over I in ICT • Need to extend gains of the political revolt (middle class-based) to a longer lasting social “revolution” AGAlegre/FMA 2001

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