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Development and Implementation of an ICT-based Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Education Program for the Young Generation

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Japan is one of the disaster-prone countries. Then, various disaster education is conducted in schools and local communities for alleviating the damage caused by disasters. However, according to various surveys, disaster prevention awareness among young people is known to be lower than in other age groups in Japan. Therefore, we worked with Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, on establishing an ICT-based program on disaster prevention and mitigation to raise awareness of disaster prevention and mitigation among young people. The program is based on the workshop consisting of town watching and group discussion using DITS/DIMS (disaster information tweeting and mapping system) proposed in the previous studies. In this paper, we introduce the contents of the established education program on disaster prevention and mitigation for the young generation. Moreover, we report on the results of the workshops for disaster prevention and mitigation using this program at several junior high and high schools in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The results of the post-questionnaire show that many participants had a positive impression on the developed disaster education program.

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  1. Department of Human and Information Science, Tokai University, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, Japan

    Osamu Uchida

  2. Center for Liberal Arts, Tokai University, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, Japan

    Sachi Tajima

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, Tokai University, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, Japan

    Yoshitaka Kajita

  4. Department of Communication and Network Engineering, Tokai University, Minato, Tokyo, Japan

    Keisuke Utsu

  5. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Tokai University, Kumamoto, Japan

    Yuji Murakami

  6. Research and Information Center, Tokai University, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, Japan

    Sanetoshi Yamada

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The manuscript is a revised and expanded version of the paper entitled “Workshop Program on Disaster Prevention and Mitigation for Young Generation Utilizing Disaster Information Tweeting and Mapping System” presented at the 4th IFIP Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction, Ukraine, Oct. 2019.

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Uchida, O., Tajima, S., Kajita, Y. et al. Development and Implementation of an ICT-based Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Education Program for the Young Generation. Inf Syst Front 23, 1115–1125 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-020-10082-9

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