2017 Volume 15 Issue 2 Pages 187-195
The success and failure of initial responses to disaster is extremely important to mitigate the damages. A disaster-information-sharing is essential to choose and carry out appropriate responses when time and resources are severely limited. So, it is necessary to develop an information-collecting-and-sharing system and a social system where information is mutually exchanged.
This study developed a system for local communities to collaborate in collecting and sharing information. The system can realize the continuity between normal and disaster, interactivity of information, immediacy, and cross-sectoral operation. Also, the system was utilized in a variety of cases where situations and subjects were different, and the result was analyzed. As the result, knowledge was obtained on the requirements and the necessary frameworks for local communities to utilize the information-sharing system. Other systems similar to this study have been developed, and the advancement of technology is expected to spread more sophisticated systems in the future. This study conducted a practice with technologies which can be spread at this time and organized knowledge to implement the same type of system in the community, which are the features of this study.
