A Research on

Pagadian City Disaster Risk Reduction Plan: A New Relief Operation Management System

In partial fulfillment for the

Requirements in
MSIT 204: Management Information System

Presented by:
ROSITO D. ORQUESTA

May 4, 2019
Introduction

Every country in the world experiences the drastic effects of climate change every day.
Greenhouses are more than 50 percent since 1990 and global warming is causing long-lasting
changes to the climate system that threaten irreversible consequences. On the record, hundreds of
billions of dollars is the current average loss from disasters and require an investment of at least
$6 billion on management alone -United Nations Development Plan (UNDP, 2019).

It is undoubtedly that climate change as one of the most fundamental challenges ever to
confront humanity has its adverse impacts as seen and may intensify exponentially over time if
nothing is done to reduce further emissions of greenhouse gases. Decisively dealing now with
climate change is the key to ensuring sustainable development, poverty eradication and
safeguarding economic growth (PAGASA, 2019). In 1992, the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was adopted as the basis for a global response to the
problem. The Philippines signed the UNFCCC on 12 June 1992 and ratified the international
treaty on 2 August 1994. Presently, the Convention enjoys near-universal membership, with 194
Country Parties.

June 16, 2011, the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Center release and
signed a framework to address the needs of Risk Reduction Management and Planning for every
local and regional center since disaster risks are inevitable. One of the goals in this framework is
to substantially reduce the loss of life and damage to social, economic and environmental assets,
through mitigating the potential impacts of existing disasters and climate risks(NDRRMC,
2011).

This research paper is aligned into the 13th Goal of the Sustainable Development Goals
(SDG) of UNDP which is the Climate Action. In this context, this research will address the lack
of climate action in the Philippines by developing a well-organized management system to
minimize the possibility of compromising food safety during and after a disaster hit the city of
Pagadian as part of the CDRRMC Risk Reduction Management Plan.
Statement of the Problem

Part of the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Framework is to prepare for
Disaster Response and Disaster Recovery and Rehabilitation. Pagadian City as one of the areas
from Zamboanga del Sur which often times experiences although moderate natural and manmade
disaster has been experiencing difficulty on distributing relief goods especially of food supplies
to affected areas that leads to a higher incidence of food spoilage. This scenario raises the
question “What causes the difficulty of distributing relief goods in CDRRMC Pagadian City base
on the needs of the people from the affected areas and with proper releasing of food reliefs
without taking the risk of spoilage and increasing the risk of malnutrition, high incidence of food
poisoning that could result to a higher mortality rate?”

The main objective of the study is to develop a well-organized management system for
the CDRRMO of Pagadian City in relief operation.

First, to test the acceptance of the CDRRMC to use a new system for relief operation this
will seek to answer the following questions as basis for the development of the proposed system:

1. What is the correlation between Perceive Usefulness (PU) and Perceive Ease of Use
(PEU) towards using a new relief operation management system?
2. What is the level of acceptance in using a new relief operation management system in
terms of generation:
a. Baby Boomers (55-75 years old)
b. Gen X (40-54 years old)
c. Gen Y.1 and Y.2 (25-29;30-39)
d. Gen Z (4-24 years old)

Significance of the Study

As a matter of preserving human lives, this study can be beneficial to not only the city of
Pagadian but with other cities and municipalities. This can be a new paradigm on how to
properly manage and distribute relief goods during and after a disaster. The goal of this research
is to address the call for disaster risk reduction and preparedness as a plan by the NDRRMC in-
line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the United Nation. This is significant in
reducing the prominent increase in health problems and mortality rate of human lives during and
after the disaster hit a community.

Scope and Limitation

This research aims to provide a computer-aided system for managing the inventory and
distribution of relief goods during and after devastating events of any natural and man-made
calamities around Pagadian City, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines. This study will take action
from the City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Center (CDRRMC) of Pagadian City only.
The system will serve as a Management System which will cover the planning of how the
delivery of supplies will be acquired and distributed to the affected area in the community
according to the needs of the victims.

The system will accept any information in a form of text message from the people in the
area either from the victims, concern observers and responders for possible supply requests. In
response the proposed system will send short message service (SMS) to the residents of Pagadian
City for relief donations and will also send electronic mail to Government and NGO offices for
additional relief support with specific details on the needs.

This tool will also monitor the state of donated food supplies to mitigate the problem of
having a prominent increase in health problems and mortality rate due to spoilage and expiration.

The proposed system is limited to PC (Personal Computer) Application only and will be
developed in Windows platform thus this will not be runnable in any smartphones or tablets, it
could be run on a Mac, Ubuntu or Linux with additional libraries and tweaks on the operating
system. The system will always require having e-load for sending SMS to the residents of
Pagadian City and internet connection to link to other linkages and agencies for the complete
operation of the system.

Definition of Terms

Perceived Usefulness (PU)

- the indicator from Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) developed by (Davis F. D.,
1989) to measure respondents acceptance on a technology presented.
Perceived Ease of Use (PEU)
- the indicator from Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) developed by (Davis F. D.,
1989) to measure the respondents acceptance on a technology presented, oftentimes this becomes
the basis of the Perceived Usefulness of the technology as it triggers the behavior of the
respondents towards the usability of the technology in terms of design and interfaces.

Literature Review

This will present the literature of the same synthesis of the art. This research will assess
the needs to implement new system in relief operation in CDRRMC Pagadian City. In this
review of related literature, the researcher tries to look on possible reasons that support the ideas;
this will gather information from previous research in the same synthesis of the art.

On May 23-27, 1994 the World Conference was held in Yokohama Japan and formulated
the Yokohama Strategy for Disaster Reduction which objective is to save human lives and
protecting property. Included in the Strategy are the following actions; E. Identification and
Networking of existing centers of excellence so as to enhance disaster prevention, reduction and
mitigation activities; G. Involvement and active participation of the people in disaster reduction,
prevention and preparedness, leading to improved risk management; O. Making available the
existing technology for broader application to disaster reduction; and recommended the
committee to; C. Develop risk assessment programs and emergency plans that will focus its
efforts on disaster preparedness, response, and mitigation, and to design projects for sub-regional
and international cooperation, as appropriate; (IDNDR, 1994).

The World Conference was held again on January 2005 in Hyogo, Japan to further
develop the Yokohama Strategy later known as the Hyogo Framework which identifies the gap
from the previous Yokohama Strategy. One of these gaps identified is the preparedness for
effective response and recovery, the Hyogo Framework last until the year 2015 (ISDR, 2005).

Taken from what has learnt from the Hyogo Framework, on 2015 of March at Sendai,
Japan the World Conference has organize a new updated framework to address the increasing
risk of natural and manmade disaster, this framework will set to end in 2030 as aligned to the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the United Nation. This framework aims to
substantially reduce disaster risk and losses in lives, livelihoods and other assets of any
businesses and individuals in the community and country. To attain the expected outcome the
official on regional, national and international must prevent new and reduce existing disaster risk
through the implementation of integrated and inclusive with this various aspects in the
community; such as economic and structure, legal and social, health, culture and education,
environment, technological and political, even institutional measures that prevent and reduce
hazard exposure and vulnerability to disaster, increase preparedness for response and recovery,
and thus strengthen resilience (UN, 2015).

These frameworks from the United Nation put the Philippines into action to take
responsible management and planning on mitigating disaster and reducing the increase of risk
during and after natural and man-made disasters. The loosely organized Disaster Relief
Operation contributed to the prominent increase in health problems and mortality rate and to
address the issue, this research is hopeful to contribute a solution with the Supply Chain
Management Framework applied to Relief Operation Management System.

A supply chain is an established connectivity between independent organization of

products and services to contribute or jointly add value on in order to deliver good products to
the customer. To become an excellent business going through an entirely inward looking
management approach can be very illusive. What’s more practical and more assured way
managing a business is to manage it along with supply chain through appropriate strategic
positioning, adequate structural configuration, collaboration, integration and leadership (Lu,
2011).
 Figure 1: The Basic Supply Chain Model

The presentation in Figure 1 is rather a simple implementation of the concept of supply

chain which is likely different from the actual scenario where there could be multiple supplier
and customer and forms a simple to complex networking.

Supplier Supplier Supplier Supplier Supplier

Customer Customer Customer

Figure 2: Network of Customer and Supplier

 Figure 3: The Beer Game Board

Figure 3 presents a game which reflects to real world scenario, each players from Factory
to Retailer must adjust their current inventory to cater the production orders to avoid back logs.
In this sense, a retailer should sold 4 beers to the customer before placing an order to the
wholesaler, the wholesaler has to deliver 4 beers to the retailer before requesting for a
replenishment from the distributor and in the same manner the distributor should have distributed
4 beers to the wholesaler before placing 4 beers in order list to the factory.

The supply chain management in this context could be applied in the acquisition and
distribution of relief supply during relief operation. In a manner that the victim, concern citizen,
rescuers or relief operation personnel could put a request to the CDRRMC for specific needs and
CDRRMC places the request to the possible stakeholders for donations.

Short Message Services or text messages is a trend in technology which is capable of

sending information from one end to the other in various option like send to one or send to many.
It is a feature embedded in any cellular and smart phone devices by default. While most cell
phones are used for their original intent like making telephone calls wirelessly these devices are
also loaded with other features that are often little used or even ignored. A feature that users have
begun to fully exploit in recent years is the short message service (SMS). This basic service
allows the exchange of short text messages between subscribers (Brown, Shipman, & Vetter,
2013).
 Electronic mail makes it possible to exchange messages through a local or worldwide
communication network like the internet. Commonly used terminals in sending an e-mail are
Computers but other electronic devices can also be used such as cell phones, data
communication terminals or other data exchange equipment. Most e-mail software and services
allow users to attach files containing text, documents, sound, pictures, and even computer
programs. Mail provides a comfortable, flexible environment for sending and receiving
electronically. Simply speaking, E-mail is nothing but sending a file from your account across
the Internet to someone else’s account (Gupta, 1996).

While both communication types uses Wide Area Network, internet is much more
flexible and could reach further destination than SMS and both are necessity in this research to
establish a working network of communication between the victims, concerned citizen, rescuer
or relief operations personnel and the different agencies, Government and NGOs for donations
and support.

A high technical performance information system will be good for nothing if the user do
not adopt and do not accept the technology(Davis F. D., 1989). We need to evaluate and
understand any possible reasons why the users tend to accept or reject some systems, to foresee,
explain and modernize the systems afterwards (Davis F. D., 1989).

On the book published by (Davis, Bagozzi, & Warshaw, 1989) the determinants of user
acceptance in using computer technology are based on user’s internal beliefs and attitudes often
influenced by various external factors including; the system’s technical design characteristics
(Benbasat & Dexter, 1986), user involvement in the system development (Baroudi, Olson, &
Ives, 1986), the type of system development process used (Alavi, 1984), the nature of the
implementation process (Ginzberg, 1978) and cognitive style (Huber, 1983).

Another basis on the user’s acceptance as described by (Fishbein & Ajzen, 1980) on
Theory of Reasoned Action is the relationships between beliefs, attitudes, norms, intentions, and
behavior. Although the research on Theory of Reasoned Action has gained so much attention in
the field of psychology, it is not the definite truth about that best describe the user’s acceptance
on certain matter. It also has been an object of criticism for much of that period and subject to
definitional issues about what an attitude is (Trafimow, 2009), not only that the theory makes
risky predictions that makes it falsifiable under reasonable standards of falsification, but also that
at least one of its assumptions has been falsified and this specific argument is used to set up
general argument that psychologists tend to subscribe to a naïve falsificationist viewpoint,
invalidly use this viewpoint to evaluate theories which prevent empirical research from being
performed.

Taken into consideration that the CDRRMC and other prospect users will be assessed in
terms of Perceive Usefulness and Perceive Ease of Use, this research will try to look into related
literature and studies about a model in determining PU and PEU on technology. In this manner
the proposal could be determine if applicable or not. User acceptance of technology has been an
important field of study for decades now. Many models have been proposed to explain and
predict the PEU and PU of a system but the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) has been the
only one which has captured most of the attention from the Information Systems community
(Chuttur, 2009).

Perceived Usefulness is defined by Davis as “the degree to which a person believes that
using a particular system would enhance his or her job performance” and Perceived Ease of Use
is “the degree to which a person believes that using a particular system would be free of
effort”(Davis F. D., 1989).

This research endeavor deeply rooted on the lack of climate action in the Philippines and
as observe there is a need of upgrade in the system used by the CDRRMC in Disaster Relief
Operation. This is to mitigate the problem identified on compromised food reliefs during the
distribution. This research will develop a new computerize system to address the poor initiative
mechanism in the risk reduction management plan which often results to poor distribution
mechanism of food reliefs in affected areas.

With the framework design by the United Nation align with the sustainable development
goals and by implementing the concept of Supply Chain Management Framework in business
like the one used by Procter and Gamble to establish a direct connectivity between the Victims-
CDRRMC via SMS for specific needs and CDRRMC-Government Agencies and NGOs via
SMS and E-mail for additional supply according to the needs of the victims in the vicinity. A
much manageable Disaster Relief Operation system will be implemented with regards to the
preservation of human lives and restoration. This proposed system will only be implemented
after the deliberations of user’s acceptance to such semi-automated computerized system using
the Technology Acceptance Model of (Davis F. D., 1989) a new tool will be derive to collect the
thoughts of CDRRMC personnel and residents of Pagadian on the proposed system.

Methods

Research Design

Since this research will assess the needs of the City of Pagadian to implement a new
system on Disaster Relief Operation, it is suitable to use survey method using TAM. A survey is
a type of research method which will take response from various respondents to a given topic or
issue to enable the researcher to conclude on the question at hand. Using survey will only take a
part of the population not the whole is studied, and findings from the survey are expected to be
generalized to the entire population’s response (Nworgu, 1991). Similary, (McBurney, 1995)
describes the survey as assessing public opinion or individual characteristics using questionnaire
and sampling methods.

Research Environment

This research will be held in the city of Pagadian, Zamboanga del Sur. It involves the
City Risk Reduction Management Office, Barangay Risk Reduction Office and the residents of
the city as primary and secondary respondents of the sampling.
Respondents

Out of 54 Barangay in Pagadian City 14 of these are identified as Rural Area. The
research could focus on the 14 representatives as respondents for the said research study as prone
to manmade and natural disasters due to its population and their location which almost of the 14
Barangay are situated near the coastal area and could be the main affected areas if another
tsunami would hit the city just like the 1976 Moro Gulf Tsunami. These 14 Barangay are as
follows:
1. Balangasan 6. San Francisco 11. Santiago
2. Dumagoc 7. San Jose 12. Santo Niño
3. Gatas 8. San Pedro 13. Tiguma
4. Kawit 9. Santa Lucia 14. Tuburan
5. Lumbia 10. Santa Maria

Sampling Technique

The researcher come up to a consensus to conduct an interview on the management of

PAWAD/Police Department and using the lottery sampling technique the list of names of all
residents in Pagadian City are put on a lottery machine where 30 names taken from it will be the
respondents of the research.

Research Instrument

With the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) the researcher produce a set of survey
questionnaire for the respondents to identify their acceptance to use a new system of responding
to any disastrous event in the city. The questionnaire is composed two parts, the first part is the
respondent’s demographic profile and the second part is the 20 technology acceptance statements
where 3 out of 20 are negatively stated. This is to consider such response without reliability.

Part 1 of the Survey: Personal Information

Please check the appropriate choices of information that best describe you as a respondent.

1. Name (Optional): ______________________________________________

2. Age : _______

Part 2 of the Survey: Survey Proper

Please rate the level of your agreement to the statement that describes the level of technology
satisfaction from your perception on using the proposed system for Disaster Relief Operation of
CDDRMC Pagadian. Encircle the number that best represents your hones response using the scales
below:

5 – Extremely Agree (means 76 - 100% in agreement to the statement)

4 – Moderately Agree (means 51 - 75% in agreement to the statement)
3 – Somewhat Agree (means 26 - 50% in agreement to the statement)
2 – Slightly Agree (means 1 - 25% in agreement to the statement)
1 – Disagree (means no agreement to the statement)
Technology Acceptance Statement Level of Agreement
Using the system will improve the quality of the Disaster Relief Operation.
5 4 3 2 1
Using the system will give the City’s Disaster Risk Reduction Management a
5 4 3 2 1
greater control over the relief operation.
The system will enable the CDRRMC to accomplish tasks more quickly.
5 4 3 2 1
The system will supports critical aspects of the job during disaster relief
5 4 3 2 1
operation.
Using the system will increase the productivity of CDRRM office.
5 4 3 2 1
Using the system will improve job performance of the CDRRMC employees.
5 4 3 2 1
The system will allow accomplishing more work than would otherwise be
5 4 3 2 1
possible.
Using the system will enhances disaster relief operation effectiveness.
5 4 3 2 1
Using the system will make it easier to distribute disaster relief.
5 4 3 2 1
Overall, I find the system useful for the CDRRMC.
5 4 3 2 1
I find the new system will be cumbersome to use.
5 4 3 2 1
Learning to operate the new system will be easy for me.
5 4 3 2 1
Interacting with the new system will be often frustrating.
5 4 3 2 1
I find it will be easy to get the new system to do what I want it to do.
5 4 3 2 1
The new system will be rigid and inflexible to interact with.
5 4 3 2 1
It will be easy for me to remember how to perform tasks using the new system.
5 4 3 2 1
Interacting with the new system will require a lot of mental effort. 5 4 3 2 1
My interaction with the new system will be clear and understandable.
5 4 3 2 1
I find it takes a lot of effort to become skillful at using the new system.
5 4 3 2 1
Overall, I find the new relief operation system will be easy to use.
5 4 3 2 1

Table 1 : Survey Statements

Data Presentation
Rows represent the respondents while the columns represent the variables containing the
specific responses of respondents. Using Likert Scale a most widely employed form of attitude
measurement in survey research (Lavrakas, 2008) the points are reverse example if a respondent
select 5 on the survey, the equivalent rating on likert scale is 1, 4= 2, 2=4 and 1 =5 while 3
remains 3 or neutrality.
A Technology Acceptance Result
No. G S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 S6 S7 S8 S9 S10 S11 S12 S13 S14 S15 S16 S17 S18 S19 S20
E Perceive Usefulness (PU) Perceived Ease of Use (PEU)
1 48 1 1 3 1 2 2 1 2 3 2 5 4 5 2 3 3 5 2 5 2
2 66 1 3 1 1 3 3 1 1 3 1 4 3 4 1 3 3 4 2 4 3
3 30 1 2 3 1 2 2 1 2 2 2 5 5 5 2 5 1 5 1 5 1
4 63 1 3 1 1 3 3 1 1 3 1 4 3 4 1 4 2 4 1 4 3
5 32 1 2 2 1 2 2 1 2 3 2 5 5 5 2 5 1 5 1 5 2
6 32 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 2 3 2 5 5 5 2 5 1 5 1 4 2
7 24 1 2 2 1 2 2 1 2 2 2 5 5 5 2 5 1 5 1 4 2
8 30 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 5 5 5 1 5 1 5 1 5 1
9 48 1 3 2 1 2 2 1 2 3 2 5 4 4 2 5 1 5 1 5 2
10 45 1 3 2 1 2 2 1 1 3 2 5 5 5 2 5 1 5 1 5 2
11 35 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 3 3 4 1 3 3 4 1 4 1
12 26 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 5 5 5 1 5 1 5 1 5 1
13 32 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 5 5 5 1 5 1 5 1 5 1
14 26 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 5 5 5 1 5 1 5 1 5 1
15 28 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 5 5 5 1 5 1 5 1 5 2
16 28 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 5 5 5 1 5 1 5 1 5 2
17 63 1 3 3 1 3 3 1 1 3 3 5 5 5 2 5 1 5 1 4 2
18 22 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 5 5 5 1 4 1 5 1 5 2
19 34 1 2 2 1 2 2 1 2 3 2 5 5 5 2 5 1 5 1 4 2
20 30 1 2 2 1 2 2 1 1 3 2 5 5 5 2 5 1 5 1 5 2
21 24 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 3 2 5 5 5 1 5 1 5 1 5 1
22 34 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 2 5 5 5 1 5 1 5 1 5 2
23 52 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 2 3 3 4 2 3 3 4 3 4 2
24 38 1 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 3 2 3 3 4 2 3 3 4 3 4 1
25 27 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 4 5 5 1 4 2 5 2 5 2
26 28 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 5 5 5 1 5 1 5 1 5 2
27 29 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 2 3 2 4 5 5 1 5 2 5 2 5 2
28 26 1 1 2 1 2 2 1 2 2 2 4 5 5 1 5 1 5 1 5 2
29 28 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 2 3 3 5 5 5 1 5 1 5 1 5 3
30 27 1 1 2 1 2 2 1 1 3 2 5 5 5 1 5 1 5 1 5 2

Table 2: Survey Result

Statistical Analysis

x = Perceive Usefulness (PU)

y = Perceive Ease of Use (PEU)
Perceive Usefulness Perceive Ease of Use
Res. # x x2 y y2 xy
1 18 324 36 1296 648
2 18 324 31 961 558
3 18 324 35 1225 630
4 18 324 30 900 540
5 18 324 36 1296 648
6 17 289 35 1225 595
7 17 289 35 1225 595
8 13 169 34 1156 442
9 19 361 34 1156 646
10 18 324 36 1296 648
11 11 121 27 729 297
12 11 121 34 1156 374
13 11 121 34 1156 374
14 12 144 34 1156 408
15 13 169 35 1225 455
16 13 169 35 1225 455
17 22 484 35 1225 770
18 13 169 34 1156 442
19 18 324 35 1225 630
20 17 289 36 1296 612
21 15 225 34 1156 510
22 14 196 35 1225 490
23 15 225 31 961 465
24 16 256 30 900 480
25 13 169 35 1225 455
26 12 144 35 1225 420
27 16 256 36 1296 576
28 16 256 34 1156 544
29 18 324 36 1296 648
30 16 256 35 1225 560
∑x = 466 ∑x = 7470
2
∑y = 1022 ∑y = 34950
2
∑xy = 15915

Table 3: Group Data Distribution

 Correlation is a measurement coefficient, interpreted to give substantial information
about the relationship of two variables (Canlapan, 2016). A way to measure linear correlation,
denoted as r, is through this formula:

𝑆𝑆𝑥𝑦
𝑟=
√𝑆𝑆𝑥𝑥 𝑆𝑆𝑦𝑦

then
(∑ 𝑥)2 4462
𝑆𝑆𝑥𝑥 = ∑ 𝑥 2 − = 7470 − = 231.4667
𝑛 30

(∑ 𝑦)2 10222
𝑆𝑆𝑦𝑦 = ∑ 𝑦 2 − =34950 − = 133.8667
𝑛 30

∑𝑥 ∑𝑦 (446) (1022)
𝑆𝑆𝑥𝑦 = ∑ 𝑥𝑦 − = 15915 − 30
= 39.93333
𝑛

Finding the value of r

𝑆𝑆𝑥𝑦 39.93333
𝑟= =
√𝑆𝑆𝑥𝑥 𝑆𝑆𝑦𝑦 √(231.4667)(133.8667)

r = 0.226858528

Correlation coefficient is always a value ranging from -1 to 1. The sign indicates the
direction of relationship while the magnitude suggests the strength of relationship (Canlapan,
2016).

-1 -0.5 0 0.5 1

Strong Weak Weak Strong

negative negative positive positive
correlation correlation correlation correlation

Perfect No Perfect
Negative Correlation Positive
Correlation Correlation

Figure 3: Correlation Indicator

 Respondents Mean Value
Baby Gen. Gen. Gen.
Boomers X Y Z
2.45 2.7 2.7 2.6
2.4 2.65 2.65 2.35
2.85 2.7 2.7 2.45
2.3 2.7
2.65
2.7
2.7
2.65
2.7
2.7
2.65
2.7
2.7
2.65
2.7
2.7
2.65
2.7
2.7
Mean 2.5 2.683 2.443 2.467

Table 4: Weighted Mean/Age Generation

Findings
The correlation between PU and PEU resulted to Pearson’s Correlation of 0.226858528
which places on the linear correlation indicator as weak positive correlation. Presented in table 4
is the weighted mean of each group of respondents which Generation X stand out with 2.683 as
indicator of the likeness to be the favorable user of the system in general.

Conclusion
The result set of data indicates that there is a relation on how people accept the usefulness
of a technology base on its ease of use. Findings further indicate that email and text messages are
not as likeable technology to implement in the new relief operation management system. Text
messages using smart phones and emailing system or web application though both are new
technology but as indicated in table 4 the most likely users are of Generation X rather than the
younger generation of Y and Z. Overall, respondents approved to use a new computer aided
Disaster Relief Operation System for Pagadian City where mode is 2 that indicates the system is
51-75% agreeable. Further results gives us 26.667% on total respondents that answers Extremely
Agree on the implementation of the new system, 63.333% on Moderately Agree and 10%
respondents on Somewhat Agree.

Recommendations
With the given result of Table 4 which indicates that Generation X are more eager to use
the system compared to Generation Y and Z, this might open up a new variable on determining
what factors to consider in the survey as it is not indicated but most of the respondents in the
Generation Y and Z are taking computer related programs in college and or well verse in using
computer which might indicate that Generation Y and Z are more knowledgeable on the
capabilities or pros and cons of integrating computer, email and text messages into a new
technology or system.

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