Title
Malasakit 1.0: A participatory online platform for crowdsourcing disaster risk reduction strategies in the philippines.
Abstract
We describe Malasakit 1.0 (meaning "sincere care" in Filipino), a customiz able participatory assessment platform that collects and streamlines quantitative and qualitative analyses and insights of disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies. While supervised classification approaches offer opportunity to understand qualitative textual suggestions, those methods break down in areas like the Philippines, home to 187 languages and nuances in varying socioeconomic contexts. Instead, Malasakit uses dimensionality reduction and peer-to-peer evaluation on qualitative textual suggestions to identify locally appropriate DRR strategies. We present results from 12 field tests conducted in eight distinct geographic locations in the Philippines. 998 participants provided 7,157 evaluations on flood and typhoon preparedness and 2,481 peer-to-peer ratings on 896 textual suggestions for how local government could improve DRR strategies. Results suggest that female participants are more confident than males in their community's ability to recover from a major typhoon. High-rated textual suggestions focus on issuing immediate early warnings and cleaning drainages to reduce flooding. Malasakit can be accessed at tiny.cc/malasakit.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2017
IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference Proceedings
collaborative filtering,development assessment,participatory assessment,principal component analysis
Field
DocType
ISSN
Data science,Typhoon,Crowdsourcing,Local government,Computer science,Citizen journalism,Disaster risk reduction,Preparedness,Flood myth,Socioeconomic status
Conference
2377-6919
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
7
Authors
11
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Brandie Nonnecke1113.26
Shrestha Mohanty211.05
Andrew Lee301.35
Jonathan Lee4232.89
Sequoia Beckman500.68
Justin Mi600.68
S. Krishnan739136.25
Rachel Edita Roxas8116.34
Nathaniel Oco955.24
Camille Crittenden1031.71
Ken Goldberg113785369.80