Abstract:

Nowadays, the usage of mobile technology has become a trend in a huge area such as education, entertainment, online business, and other kinds of areas that gives benefits. There are various applications that can benefit the community. Mobile applications enable new ways of working in an increasingly connected and mobile world. The mobile application for food bank is developed for people who need help from food bank, people who want to make donation, people who want to be volunteer to help distribute the food bank, and for NGO itself. They can make donations or make requests for food banks remotely from different locations. These users will help to spread the food bank information via mobile devices. In the meantime, some NGOs are still using old-fashioned ways in taking data of donors, needed people and volunteers. Some situations are only known by NGO and not to the community. Therefore, the aim of this study is to improve food bank services method for donator and needed people. Current method only one-way communication. Problem may occur with lack of information for the food availability, time limitation for the food with having expired date then the food cannot be eaten and others. Face to face interview been done to validate the proposed method improved the donation management system which involve food. Three target respondents have been selected and let them familiar the application. The result shows the new technology used in the application is easy to understand, helpful to the user. Meanwhile, the stability needs to be improved for next version of application.