E-Participation: Incident Mapping Portal for Local Government Units

The paper promotes the use of ICT for an E-Participation prototype for the Local Government Unit specifically in the Barangay level. E-Participation provides officials and the community interaction to produce information concerning policies and decision making through technological tools. The study incorporates the different types of E-participation namely E-informing, E-Consulting, E-Involving, E-Collaborating and E-Empowerment. The main feature of the system will focus on the application of Incident Mapping. Through this, citizens will be allowed to point areas in the community through a digital map that requires attention from the barangay officials. Social media integration is also included to allow the community receives notifications for every update done by the officials to the website. The paper will focus on the acceptability of the proposed system for Barangay 343 Zone 44 Sampaloc, Manila towards the implementation of the E-Participation Barangay Portal prototype. The system was accessed by the community having a total of 154 respondents using statistical sampling method such as clustering, stratified and fishball sampling. The result of the survey obtained from the respondents in the acceptability of the system shows that it is Highly Acceptable gaining an overall mean of 4.51. This study provides insight into potential improvement for transparencies, communication plan and services. Furthermore, the said innovation may encourage more users to improve fact-based decision making for Local Government Unit. Conducting e-participation in longitudinal research to better understand the different factors affecting the sustainability of active participation is therefore recommended.