Introduction

Information Technology along side Scientific and Technological

innovations has been developing in a way which practically controls wealth

and power of a nation. These technological innovations are actually

achieved with the aim of human welfare. In fact 80% of the rural

community people of third world countries do not get any fruit of these

innovations achieved at the expense of billion of dollars. To the tune of only

20% of the people living in and around urban areas are utilizing the benefits

of such developments. Modern information technology has transformed

into a source of development raw materials, wealth and power of a nation

are directed for the well-being of humanity. The modern and the new

information technologies side by side with scientific and technological

innovations have greatly influenced the chronological development of mode

of information resource centers and technology development (Faruque et al.,

2014).

According to Lado et al., (2017) computerized barangay information

system is appropriate for use of barangay employees, who have access to

profile of barangay residents for the direct reports. Moreover, departmental

organizational staffs which have a business need for this information for

their business unit can also benefit. This is responsible for an effective and

efficient approach for barangay employees and residents. It well help them

accomplish task faster and would also eliminate the need of a large staff. It

will provide profile-based information for residents.

According to Rambaldi et al., (1998) resource mapping allows

community members to identify, locate, and classify resource occurrence,

distribution, use, tenure, and access. Critical locations such as areas known

for illegal fishing, pollution, and siltation, among others are identified and

mapped. The resource map is an essential input for planning and

monitoring and evaluation purposes.

Malita, as the scope of this project is the capital municipality of

the Province of Davao Occidental, Philippines. According to the 2015

Philippine Census, M alit a h a s a P o p ula tio n

of 117,746 people. The

municipality is the main economic center of Davao Occidental province,

agriculture and fishery are the main industries of the municipality. The

current system being used by municipal personnel in gathering data of

household, population and commodities is the survey process in which they

need to transport in different barangays of Malita and then manually

evaluate.

Thus, the developers proposed Web-Based Barangay Information

System that will automate the management of barangay household,

commodities, population, and establish geotagging of products and goods

for barangays. It will utilize Google Map Application Programming Interface

(API) to locate the commodities available per barangay.

Objectives of the Study

Generally, the system aimed to establish a Web-Based Information

System of the barangays in Malita, Davao Occidental.

Specifically, it aimed to:

1. Automate the management of barangay household, commodities

and population;

2. Populate barangay data to be viewed in municipal webpage in

order to monitor the increase and decrease of households,

commodities and population for an immediate action; and

3. Establish geotagging of commodities for barangays which will

utilize Google Map Application Programming Interface (API) for

Malita, Davao Occidental, to locate the commodities in each

barangay.

Significance of the Study

The study was designed for the Municipality of Malita, Davao

Occidental. The implementation of this study is useful for appending

benefits of the users. The administrator was regarded as an important user

who can access the entire system and monitor the data being saved.

Through the portal, municipality was updated and more aware of barangay

situations in terms of household, commodities and population. They can

also organize programs that can help the barangays. Furthermore, it

provided information assistance for community growth and development.

The barangay personnel could efficiently implement the benefits to their

constituents. Through this study, the community will efficiently receive any

local government benefits that could give alternative solutions to the

problems of community to maintain productivity.

Scope and Limitation of the Study

This system was designed for the Municipality of Malita, Davao

Occidental and its barangays. It was limited to access by the administrator,

municipal personnel and barangay personnel. The study covers only the

household, commodities, population and geotagging. The household

contains the resident’s profile. In addition, the system can count the total

households and population. The system populates barangay data to be

viewed in municipal webpage in order to monitor the increase and decrease

of households, commodities and population for an immediate solution, and

using the barangay coordinates which to be manage by the administrator

and the commodity information from the barangay was used to utilize the

geotagging of commodities.