Lesson 12: ICT Project for Social Change

At the end of this lesson, the students should be able to:

1. Plan and conceptualize an ICT project for social change; and
2. identify the platforms that will help in the success of the campaign.

Creating a Concept Paper

Before starting your project, your group should be able to do the necessary paperwork. This allows experts to see if your project is doable over the time frame that was given and if it is significant enough to be made into reality

A concept paper is a document used to convince a panel of potential funders to help a product, program, or service become a reality. This is very important as this concept paper will be the basis whether they approve of your project or not.

There are 5 elements of a concept paper:

1. Introduction-includes your group's mission, vision, and a brief introduction of your project

2. Purpose-includes the reasons why this project is worth your group and sponsor's time, effort, and money.

3. Description- includes all the necessary information about the project. In ICT, it involves the sites you are going to produce and the purpose of each and how they work in unison.

4. Support-contains the budget needed for the project. Some concept papers do not specify any amount requested from the sponsor. 

5. Contact information- includes information on how the group can be contacted.

ICT Project Process Overview

1. Planning- involves:

• Conceptualizing your project
• Researching on available data about your topic
• Setting deadlines and meetings
• Assigning people to various tasks
• Finding a web or blog host
• Creating a site map for your website
• Listing down all applications that you need including web apps
• Funding (if applicable)

You need to make sure that you have different back-up plans in case something does happen.  Thus, creating these plans are included in the planning step.

2. Development- involves actual creation and production of sites, infographics, etc.

3. Release and Promotion- involves the actual release of the website for public view and promoting it. Promotion typically starts before the actual release. You can make use of different platforms to advertise your project, such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. 

4. Maintenance- involves responding to feedback of your site visitors and continuing to improve the website.

You can make use of suggestion forms in your site to know what you should add or remove in your site.

I hope that in this lesson, everyone will learn how to use ICT for social change.