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Planning
—— and Conceptualizing
Social Advocacy for
Developing
an ICT Project
Learning Competency:
Identify a local or regional cause or
issue for Social Change related to
specific professional tracks that can
be addressed or tackled using an ICT
Project for Social Change
(CS_ICT11/12-ICTPT-Iim-p16)
OBJECTIVES:
1. understand how to plan and
conceptualized an ICT Project;
2. understand what concept paper is;
3. understand the steps on how to create
a concept paper;and
4. create his/her own concept paper on
proposed ICT Project.
Planning and Conceptualizing
Social Advocacy Developing
an ICT Project
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ICT serves as the steppingstone for the economic,
social, industrial growth and development of the
first world countries around the globe. Thus, ICT
is generally seen as an advantageous instrument
to provide better and cheaper ways of
communication and promote changes that to
enables the generation of new knowledge and
equipping the people with the relevant skills
needed. Hence, ICT projects undergoes deep
research, inquiry and studies before implemented
that is why planning and conceptualizing are vital
for any projects.
Activity
Directions: Find the words that corresponds to its
meaning.
1. It includes the mission and vision and brief
title overview of a project or concept paper.
2. It includes the reasons why the project is
worth the time, effort and money in creation of
introduction the concept paper.
3. It includes all the necessary information
description about the project or a concept paper.
4. It includes the budget needed for the
contact project or concept paper.
5. It includes the information on how the
support project or concept paper creator can be reach.
6. It serves a lot in terms of getting the
purpose audience interest and gives a fully overview of
a project or concept paper.
Introduction 1. It includes the mission and vision and
brief overview of a project or concept paper.
Purpose 2. It includes the reasons why the project
is worth the time, effort and money in
creation of the concept paper.
Description 3. It includes all the necessary information
about the project or a concept paper.
Support 4. It includes the budget needed for the
project or concept paper.
Contact 5. It includes the information on how the
project or concept paper creator can be
reach.
Title 6. It serves a lot in terms of getting the
audience interest and gives a fully overview
of a project or concept paper.
Analysis
Directions: Answer the following questions on a separate paper.
1. Do you think a Concept Paper is a good source of information
for people to be enlighten their minds in giving possible
solution/s to an existing problemto relevant societal issues in
your locality or region? Explain your answer.

2. As part of your community, school, and neighborhood, how

do you think a student like you can bring impact to specific
local or regional issue to be resolved?
 Always start with the ends in mind.
Generate your own ideas about content
and identify various opportunities
based on your target audience. Have a
clear plan of actions, responsibilities,
work requirements, timeframe and
budget if needed. Set a SMART goal to
target
Abstraction:

Planning and Conceptualizing the Content

 Specific
(What do you want to do or want to achieve?)
Set a real goal that is direct, detailed and meaningful. Make
sure that your goals are focused and can identify a concrete
outcome. Your goal will be at risk or vague without the
specifics of the goal, because knowing what you wanted to
achieve is knowing the leverage to success.
 Measurable
(When will you know when you reach it? What are the
signs of your success?)
–Make sure that you goal is trackable and quantifiable.
Defining your own definition of “success” will aid you to
estimate your current achievement level on reaching your
specific goals.
 Attainable
(Is it possible for you to reach your goal?)
Work towards a goal that is challenging but possible and
doable. Check if you have the tools or resources that
will help you to achieve and attain your goals.
 Realistic
(Are your current skills enough to reach your goal?)
Knowing yourself is the key to your success. Be honest
with yourself and know your capabilities and the things
that you cannot do. Be realistic toward your
goals as well as on your capacity to do.
 Time-Bound
(When exactly do you plan to accomplish it?)
Give yourself a deadline. Every goal should have a
target date to finish. Having deadlines motivates
oneself to do more efficiently and helps you to be
focused in reaching your goals.
 Concept Paper
• Concept papers are summaries of projects or issues
that contemplate interests, experience and expertise
that commonly serves as a purpose of delivering an in-
depth discussion of a certain topic that a person has a
strong position on.
• The terms "concept paper”, “proposal" or “abstract”
are often used interchangeably as they can be used for
the same function.
• Concept paper can also be used as a mainstream
educational tool to develop and to create solution to a
certain problem or issue.
• Concept paper provides guidance for the
implementation of a project, concept paper carries
and gives good practices, viewpoint, advocacy, belief
and values or other correlated issues that needs and
promotes action to be taken in the future.

• Concept paper can range from (2) two to (3) three

pages for a small research project to up to 20 pages
for immense research projects.
• For the formatting of concept paper it is
suggested to be the following:
a) the font style should be formal such as Times
New Roman, Garamond, Baskerville or similar
Serif typefaces.;
b) the line and paragraph spacing should be in
double space;and
c) the font size should be at 12 points.
Key Points on making your Concept Paper
1. Rise with a concept topic or idea that you are genuinely
interested.
2. Write down the questions associated the topic or idea you
have chosen.
3. Create a possible solution from each of the questions that
you have developed.
4. Classify what kind of data you need that will answer your
questions and identity how will gather the information
needed.
5. Identify how you will analyze, interpret, and present the
overall data you gathered.
Elements of a Concept Paper for Social
Advocacy
1. Title Page
2. Introduction
3. Purpose
4. Description
5. Support
6. Contact Information
 Title Page
The title of your concept paper will serve a lot in terms
of getting the audience interest, so make sure to have
a short but a catchy and interesting title of your
chosen topic. The title of your project or concept
paper should also give a fully overview of what the
concept paper is all about and what are the things you
are resounding out about. In creating your title make
sure stick to the main point of the chosen topic and
use relevant, easy-to_x0002_understand word and
avoid being wordy. Title page usually in the form of
 Introduction
This element of concept paper serves as the most
important part of your concept paper. You must keep on
pursuing an adding value to convince the reader about
your project’s mission and vision. This part of your
concept paper should detail your mission or goal and
the vision or dream you have in taking up this concept
paper. You need to elaborate and identity it by providing
them the urge of solving an existing problem and to
provide meaningful insights of your project.
 Introduction
Your introduction should also contain the
following:
a) the clear problem you wanted to solve;
b) why did you like to investigate under this study.
c) how your research or concept paper would be helpful for
others; and
d) what are the clear evidence that your study is beneficial and
necessary to be discussed.
Lastly, what making your introduction critical is that making it
you need to make a clear and good
impression to the possible readers.
 Purpose
This element of concept paper includes the reasons
why your chosen project or advocacy campaign is
worth all the time effort and money. You need to make a
strong atmosphere of purpose. Your purpose should not
only be to prove your right, but it is more about on how
you can help other people in the purpose of your
chosen concept paper. Remember your main purpose
here is to bring something good and create an impact
for a change.
 Description
This element of concept paper includes all the
necessary information, data and details about your
project. This element talks about the steps and
procedure on how you will do things properly. It also
expounds the methods and plans on how you will
answer the problems of the concept and in revealing
the efficacy of your solution to the problems.
 Description
This element also involves ways on how you will
process your concept into a clear technique of
the production of concrete solution in harmonious
purpose that will lead to the creation of a successful
project or advocacy.
 Support
This element of concept paper contains your budget
needed for the project. Every project needed funds to
be published and materialized their certain cause, thus
support from a sponsor/s necessary to be consider.
Remember that support does not only means monetary
things, but it can also be as moral support from your
friends, relative and among others, depending on the
topic or cause who have chosen.
 Contact Information
The element of concept paper that includes
information on how the you can be contacted.
These includes the following (but not limited to):
a) name/s of the creator/s,
b) address,
c) phone or telephone number,
d) email address, and
e) website.
Generalization
Directions: Answer the following questions on a 1 whole sheet
of paper.
1. In your perspective, give one specific local or regional issue
that can be solved using Social Advocacy as ICT Project such
as in creation of a Concept Paper?
2. Do you think a Concept Paper is a good source of information
for people to be enlighten their minds in giving possible
solution/s to an existing problemto relevant societal issues in
your locality or region? Explain your answer.
3. As part of your community, school, and neighborhood, how
do you think a student like you can bring impact to specific
local or regional issue to be resolved?
BE READY!
QUIZ TIME!
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