E-Saklolo: A Mobile-based Crowdsourcing Platform for Disaster Risk Management and Emergency Response in the City of Santiago, Isabela Philippines

Abstract

Disasters can be natural, or human made hazard that results to a serious disruption of the functioning community or a society involving widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses and impacts, which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources. Unfortunately, a report showed an estimated $US 23 billion losses due to disaster occurrence in the Philippines. Furthermore, there are an even greater number of little hazard events that do not register on the global or even national news scene but continuously to affect the community. The objective of the study is to present the developed mobile-based and web-based system named E-Saklolo that responds to emergency situations such as medical, fire, rescue, and police within the community with the use of modern ICT solution. The system's goal is also to reduce casualties and mortality from disasters and emergencies. E-Saklolo was deployed in 2019 and was observed that there is an increase in resolved emergency cases, showing the effectiveness of the system in increasing emergency response efficiency. Future development will incorporate dashboards and analytics on the administrator side of the system to display relevant data and information required for reports.