A feasibility study as a starting point to build the ocean information system in Bangka Belitung

Abstract

The province of Bangka Belitung is located on strategic area which is surrounded by the ocean. This province has a BOOST center which equipped with some sensors to get the information related to the ocean. Since the time when it was built, the information that can be accessed is just the ocean tidal, and it can only access by printing the data on the paper. Because of this, this research is supposed to be the beginning to build the whole integrated ocean information system in Bangka Belitung. This research was conducted by constructing the database and the sms gateway, designing and validating, and analyzing the questionnaire. The result shows that 68% respondent says that the system is easy to use and 60% says that they are satisfied of the system. Although all issue in [6] were not included in the analyzing, the level of education of respondent has been analyzed and shown that the level of education plays important role to use the proposed system.