Development of Activity Management System to Watch over Children

In Japan, in recent years, the number of incidents in which children become victims has increased. Watching over children activities conducted by local residents are important measures for child-related crime prevention. However, the aging of local residents causes a serious shortfall in human resources for watching over children activities. Against such a backdrop, in this study, a system that integrates Web-Geographic Information Systems (Web-GIS) and a system for managing watching over children activities by local residents was designed and developed. The system can manage watching over children activities by local residents on a daily basis. In addition, the system enables local residents to discover and reduce the blank areas for watching over children activities. Thus, the system can contribute to the realization of safety school routes for children and child-related crime prevention. Administrators should be staffs of public organizations, and users are classified into two type; local residents who are always participate in child-related crime prevention activity and general local residents. The system has two functions for the users and three functions for the administrators in the frontend. In the backend, in order to operate the above five functions, four processes are performed. In regard to future research tasks, the system will be operated and evaluated in Wako City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan to identify the improvement strategies.