Acceptance of Mobile Application on Disaster Preparedness: Towards Decision Intelligence in Disaster Management

The goal of disaster management encompasses the implementation of strategies to minimize the hostile impact of disasters. With the recent technological advancements, the use of mobile applications and artificial intelligence (AI) are seen to play a pivotal role in disaster mitigation, preparation, response, and recovery. Thus, this paper proposes an architecture for smart disaster management for a developing country, the Philippines. On the other side, this paper evaluates the acceptance of the developed mobile application for disaster preparedness simulation. This study involved disaster management personnel in non-government organizations. Initial acceptance results of the survey and focus group discussion show high acceptance of the mobile application for disaster preparedness and found it useful and engaging. This study confirms the potential of system architecture on disaster preparedness, which can be useful in developing decision intelligence in disaster management. This is one of the few studies that attempts to demonstrate a smart disaster management architecture in a developing country to aid policy development and generated practices.