Community Based- System for Disaster Management

International Journal of Humanities and Social Science

Vol. 1 No. 7 [Special Issue –June 2011]

Taking Community-Based System to Malaysian Communities for Disaster Management
Binyamin Ajayi1 Department of Information Systems Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology International Islamic University, Malaysia E-mail: [e-mail], Phone [phone] Bakhtiyar Badi Department of Information Systems Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology International Islamic University, Malaysia E-mail: [e-mail], Phone: [phone] Mustafa Al-ani Department of Information Systems Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology International Islamic University, Malaysia E-mail: [e-mail], Phone: [phone] Abdul Rahman Dahlan Department of Information Systems Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology International Islamic University, Malaysia E-mail: [e-mail], Phone: [phone] Abstract
This study explores the efforts, Malaysia, is putting in place, using the pervasiveness of ICT in managing disasters; both naturally and man-made. These efforts had given birth to various agencies and initiatives from prediction/mitigation to control and management but yet the loss of lives and properties during such incidents, which are bound to happen, has been a call for concern. In fact records of such disasters kept growing when one curiously views recent flooding in Malaysia. A collaborative system initiative is expected to co-exist within the government agencies on disaster management where expertise, resources and information sharing will be enabled on a real time basis. The community through the institution of the mosque was brought on board into such system as they are seen to be the closest to the populace. These steps will no doubt make the perpetual efforts of government agencies to yield the required results. We thus opined that training these communities, which is expected to

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