Desenvolvimento de aplicativo móvel para comunicar desastres e crimes ambientais ocorridos nos municípios da Região Metropolitana do Recife

Abstract

In view of the need for a technological solution, which allows citizens to communicate occurrences of disasters and environmental crimes in the Metropolitan Region of Recife to the authorities, increasing and improving both communication and citizen participation in governments, expanding citizen participation in these governments, collaborating for efficiency in dealing with and preventing disasters and environmental crimes, research is being carried out on the development of a mobile application to communicate disasters and environmental crimes occurring in municipalities in the metropolitan region of Recife, in order to present a prototype application designed for citizens to of the Metropolitan Region of Recife can report occurrences of disasters and environmental crimes to the authorities. To do so, it is necessary to specify requirements and functionalities for the application; present an initial sketch of the application, visually represented with the structure and layout of the screens, through a vector graphic editor and project and design prototyping and develop a functional prototype of the application to communicate to the authorities’ occurrences of disasters and environmental crimes in the Region Recife Metropolitan Area (RMR). Research is then carried out that adopts applied resources aimed at developing a new instrument that may have social utility, a mobile application to make, receive and manage reports of crimes and environmental disasters in the defense and preservation of the environment, classified as being applied research, as it aims to generate scientific knowledge for practical applications, with the aim of solving specific problems identified. In view of this, it appears that Less than 10% of municipalities in the Metropolitan Region of Recife use a specific platform and their own environmental department to report crimes and environmental disasters, the majority of these municipalities use a communication channel to report these environmental incidents by via a telephone number directed to the environment department, and 20% of these municipalities receive these incidents via email. When analyzing the correlation between the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and the degree of ease in opening complaints with different communication channels in the respective municipalities, it was found that there is no relationship between the total sum of all final goods and services produced in a Municipality and the number of channels available, nor the use of mobile technology for reporting crimes and disasters, which imposes the observation that there is a long way to be covered by these Municipalities towards integration and improvement of citizen participation, of digital government and the environment, in combating and preventing crimes and environmental disasters.