The Role of ICT in 

EDSA (People Power Revolution)



"I acknowledge that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that i would in turn empower the people."
- Corazon Aquino
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) plays an important role in our world today, and even in the past.And it played as a crucial role in EDSA (People Power Revolution) the mobile phone served as the symbol of People Power II Evolution in the Philippines. And it also served as the reason of People Power II's success. But even if it played as a crucial role at that time, people haven't drawn a lot of attention to it. People Power II was arguably the world’s first EDSA-Revolution’s change of government, brought by new form of ICTs (Information and Communications Technology).




February 25, 1986 marked a significant national event that has been engraved in the hearts and minds of every Filipino. This part of Philippine history gives us a strong sense of pride especially that other nations had attempted to emulate what we have shown the world of the true power of democracy.



http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/files/2015/02/veritas3
Radio Veritas, or dzRV, played a vital role in informing the public about events during the EDSA revolution. It became the vehicle for people to gather in 1986, after former Jaime Cardinal Sin made a public call for support through the radio station. Radio Veritas also covered events that government-owned stations didn't cover: a live long distance interview with Aquino during his US exile, his assassination and funeral procession, the campaign of Cory Aquino for the snap elections, and the tally of elections, and the tally of election results. The radio station was inaugurated in 1969, or 17 years before the People Power Revolution.

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