Deep Social Networks and The Digital 4th Way
Deep Social Networks and The Digital 4th Way
Deep Social Networks and The Digital 4th Way
Cordillera, Philippines
November, 2009
Collaborating Institutions and NGOs
November 2009, Cordillera, Philippines:
• Students of Mountain Province State Polytechnic College (MPSPC)
• Student Representatives of MPSPC Tadian Campus
• MPSPC Bontoc Campus Supreme Court Council
• Mountain Province Youth Alliance
• Montañosa Research & Development Center
• Cordillera People’s Alliance (CPA) Mountain Province Chapter
• Ap-apaway Bontoc Campus Student Newspaper
• Episcopal Diocese of Northern Philippines
• Catholic Vicariate of Bontoc Lagawe
• Natonin-Paracelis Student Organization
• Sta. Rita Parish of Bontoc
• Media Center of Mountain Province
Three Major Workshop Goals
1. Provide Skills for Enhancing Networks to
Promote, Protect, and Advance Human Rights,
Cultures and Freedoms of Indigenous Peoples
2. Train Participants on an Open Platform Utilizing
Social Media, Peer to Peer Relationships, Self-
Organizing Groups and Large-Scale
Collaborations
3. Produce a Three Minute Video on a Human
Rights Issue Facing their Community
Youth Empowering Youth
•Why is so important that we as young people work together?
•What kind of role do you want to play in your community?
•When young people are given a voice, we can do anything!
Check out these music videos on Civil Rights and United Youth!
Together Participants Learn…
• To Use Participatory and Social Media
• The Differences between Social Networks and Deep
Social Networks
• To Create a Human Rights Focused Deep Social
Network Connecting Your Communities and NGO’s
• To Use the Network to Spread Human Rights
Awareness and Protect Children in Your Community
• To Communicate with other Indigenous/Minority Youth
Around the World
• The Knowledge and Skills Necessary to Sustain and
Grow Deep Social Networks for Actualizing Change
Expressing Our Cultures
Through Social Media
• Skype
• GoToMeeting
• Google Documents
• MeetMeNow
• Email
• Chat
• Chicky
Tools to Measure DSN’s
• Google Analytics provides a multi-dimensional
analysis of each Deep Social Network for day
to day monitoring, evaluation, and
improvement.
• The Google Analytics world map feature
allows the network creators to view all of the
countries their members come from.
Our Approach to Making Change
• Digital Literacy (IC3) +
• Social and Community Media +
• Deep Social Networks and the Digital 4th Way =
• Contributing To A Just, Sustainable and
Harmonious World
2010 Work Plan Goals (1 of 5)
• Create youth, ethnic minorities and
Indigenous Peoples focal point at the ASEAN
Peoples' Centre
• Create a regional youth digital network that
includes ethnic minorities and Indigenous
young people
2010 Work Plan Goals (2 of 5)
• Support the Task Force on Indigenous Peoples
for ASEAN (TF IP ASEAN)
• Support the sustainability of the ASEAN Child
Rights Forum within SAPA that includes a focus
on ethnic minorities and Indigenous Peoples
• Develop Child Rights training and protection
tools that include ethnic minorities and
Indigenous Peoples issues in partnership with
CPP (Child Protection Partnership)
2010 Work Plan Goals (3 of 5)
• Design, develop, and launch 30 Deep Social
Networks (DSNs) for promoting human rights,
child protection, and democratic participation
• Develop digital technology capacity to include
ethnic minorities and Indigenous People’s
perspectives into the ASEAN advocacy
processes
2010 Work Plan Goals (4 of 5)
• Create a minimum of 10 DSN Technical Assistance
teams for maintaining, deepening and expanding
DSN’s throughout Thailand, Mekong Delta, the
Philippines, and Indonesia
• Support Mountain Province State Polytechnic College
(MPSPC) institutionalize Indigenous development
programming that supports Indigenous Rights, Child
Protection, and Democratic Participation
2010 Work Plan Goals (5 of 5)
• Support the continued funding of ethnic
minorities and Indigenous Peoples issues and
development in South East Asia including the
support of other NGO’s and the Governments
of the the Netherlands and the USA