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Paper ID IJMS0519-007 DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF GIS-ENABLED TOOL FOR HUMAN ASSETS MAPPING

2019; Volume: 1; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

2465-6380

Dennis Tenerife, Ernesto Empig, Cenie M. Vilela-Malabanan, Adrian Galido,

Information Retrieval and Data Mining

For economic survival, an individual must have human capital and social capital, both comprise the humanassets. This study is a design and development of a GIS-enabled human assets mapping (GIS-HAM) tool. It is aimedat mapping-out human assets to easily identify the different skills of the community members which are needed forfuture employment by various job sectors. The study used the waterfall model as Software Development Life Cyclein designing and developing the GIS-HAM prototype. The GIS-HAM tool was tested in Barangay Manlin, Buug,Zamboanga Sibugay, among randomly selected household heads (n=176) who answered the researcher-madequestionnaire and were subjected to focus group discussions and interview. Research has shown that unemploymentdue to skills and educational qualification mismatch in the labor market is one of the causes of poverty. Majority ofthe respondents and key informants (82%) were high school level, acquired skills by experience (66%), and hadskills in farming (37%). The system has the improved interoperability functions of the Google API, such as GoogleMap and Visual Analytics, which map and locate the addresses of skilled persons while showing their individualeducational attainment, skills, occupation and contact number. Both employer (skills searcher) and employee (jobseeker) can match skills to job types. Respondents’ evaluation yielded the system being overall functional in termsof content, user-friendliness, and performance. Study recommended that the GIS-HAM be implemented in mobileapps for accessibility of data at any time and be developed using multimedia software to enhance its user interfacedesign.