Engaging the flood volunteers through mobile and web based neogeography platforms for efficient aid and relief coordination

Abstract

The recent flood disaster that hits certain areas in Malaysia has given massive loss to the affected victims and huge damaged to certain areas. Nevertheless, the instant aid and relief supplies and supports from various sources including individuals have reduce the flood victims’ burden at some extent. However, there is an ar-gument that arises on the effectiveness of the aid and relief coordination and distribution to the affected area. This paper proposed the use of mobile and Web based Neogeography platforms to collectively centralize the aid and relief activities data among volunteers (that draw from NGOs, ad-hoc volunteer teams and individual volunteers) so that it could be shared to other volunteer teams and authority to plan for aid and relief disaster recovery activities. The proposed platforms are anticipated able to assist the authorities for effectively coor-dinating the aid and relief actions that involving various parties.