Elmer Figuracion, Thelma Palaoag, Dennis Ignacio and Mary Jane Doblon, University of the Cordilleras, Philippines

Resilient public alert and warning tools are essential to save lives and protect property during times of national, regional, and local emergencies. Nowadays, immediate emergency alerts became one of the priority in both national and local government. The Provincial Government of Albay is geared towards becoming the most liveable province of the Philippines, which means that it would be known for good education, good healthcare and good environment where people are healthy, happy, employed and lives to their full potential. To achieve this goal, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation must be anchored well so as to move to its destination of shared socioeconomic advancement. Supporting this vision, this study focuses on the design and development of a mobile based Albay Emergency Reporting and Response Tool (ALERRT). It is a mobile based resilient form of emergency alert notification that aids the concerned citizens of any emergencies, accidents and concerns that require immediate response from the government sector concerned. In order to materialize this project, Featured-driven (FDD) methodology was used. Likewise, opinions from different strata of society were solicited along the areas on social awareness, readiness to respond and willingness to use a mobile application to report an incident or emergencies. With 92.5% of the respondent who is willing to report an incidents or emergencies, this application paved way to a better agency response and levering the people to use IT solutions to become resilient in times of emergencies. It can be used to report on emergencies ranging from fires to typhoon-related incidents, vehicular accidents with asualties, health-related concerns (e.g. unidentified person suffering from heart attack), community related incidents & concerns, and any other occurrences which requires immediate and concrete response from the concerned agencies. Having such resilient form of emergency alert notification like ALERRT is deemed necessary for a disaster prone places like Albay.

Emergency response, Disaster management, Incident report, Incident mapping, Mobile Application