Tracking the location from the side of the report and the position of the reporter in real-time is very much needed in validating the performance of irrigation field officers. The location tracking system represented in smartphone applications, and digital maps are a practical solution for supervisors in monitoring the performance of field officers. The Global Positioning System (GPS) module on Android smartphones and the Web Geographic Information System (WebGIS) are supporting technologies for the system. Each location coordinate on the report will be sent automatically to the MySQL database server, then each coordinate location of the field officer will be sent to the Firebase Realtime Database, coupled with a database synchronization system to handle reports offline when officers are in areas that do not have internet access. Database synchronization plays a role in handling report data stored in the SQLite database on an Android smartphone with a MySQL database server. This system is useful for supervisors in controlling and monitoring the performance of irrigation field officers and can be used as material for decision making. After being implemented in several Irrigation Areas in West Sumatra Province by 113 users consisting of 13 supervisors and 100 field officers, the supervisors can track the location of the report, follow the position of field officers in real-time and send reports offline.

The first aim of this study investigated how the Genre Based Approach (GBA) can be used to build the university students’ motivation in reading procedure text. The second is how GBA can be used to solve the students’ difficulties in reading procedure text. It used a qualitative approach which involved the case study method. The research participants in this research were 10 of first semester students who took the advanced reading at the Informatics Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, UMT. The GBA can be used to build the students’ motivation (by using the extrinsic factors of motivation), and it can be used to solve the students’ difficulties. The researchers implicate, the lecturer should apply GBA to increase the university students’ motivation and helps their challenges in reading procedure text. Based on the observation, there were many students uncaring about it until the lecturer commanded them to read a procedure text. Moreover, we hope that other researchers will conduct further exploration of the teaching reading procedure text using GBA.

This article contains dataset on the behavior of international tourists when traveling is related to 1) tourist demographics, 2) things that affect tourists to choose travel destinations when planning, 3) use of mobile data while traveling, 4) how to get internet access while traveling, 5) social media used during traveling, and 6) behavior of smartphone use for tourists during traveling. The raw data presented here can be used as material to analyze the behavior of international tourists related to any media that affects international tourists in planning their trips, and how they behave during traveling. This data is a source of raw data from our research on smartphones and international tourist behavior, besides being used for various other research purposes.

Smarthome merupakan salah satu implementasi konsep Internet of Things (IoT) yang memungkinkan untuk mengontrol dan memonitoring perangkat elektronik melalui jaringan internet. Pada penelitian ini dirancang sebuah sistem smarthome yang mendukung sinkronisasi pengontrolan hidup dan matinya perangkat elektronik melalui switch, aplikasi web dan time scheduling dengan database. Untuk mendukung sistem tersebut digunakan beberapa tools pendukung seperti Apache, MySQL, dan PHP serta hardware berupa arduino dan raspberry pi.  Sementara itu, metode pemodelan agile dengan pendekatan scrum digunakan dalam perancangan sistem ini. Penelitian ini diimplementasikan dalam sebuah Sistem Informasi Manajemen Perangkat Elektronik berbasis web yang bernama SIMPEL. Aplikasi SIMPEL memberikan kemudahan dalam mengendalikan perangkat elektronik yang ada di rumah.

Advances in information and communication technology have an impact on the increasing number of scientific publications in the world. Scientific papers are indicators of a country's progress in the academic field. One strategy used to improve the quality of research is to collaborate with researchers. There is not much research that addresses the collaboration of researchers. This article provides an overview of the cooperation of researchers including the background of the partnership, as well as aspects that influence the teamwork of researchers, especially in the era of acceleration of information and communication technology. The method used is the study of literature. Reviews aim as the basis for assessing research productivity, especially in Indonesia.