ICONS: a Mobile Application for Introduction Culture of North Sulawesi

Abstract

Indonesia has a very artistic and cultural diversity. Currently the lack of knowledge about the culture and art of their own country is an issue that is being experienced. Now the lack of means of support in getting information about Indonesian art and culture, thereby lowering the curiosity about the culture and art of Indonesia itself. North Sulawesi is a province in Sulawesi islands where lies the province on the northern tip of Sulawesi island directly adjacent to the Philippines Country. North Sulawesi as an area that has a lot of cultural diversity begins from historic sites, traditional houses, traditional clothing, to the beautiful tourism place in North Sulawesi. With provided a means of education in the information provider will provide a media to share information about the culture in North Sulawesi. Therefore, it is necessary to develop applications Introduction to Cultural North Sulawesi, which is the application of information systems to the concept mobile based application that is expected to attract interest in giving and receiving information about the cultures that exist in North Sulawesi. In the development of this application using methods developed Multimedia Development Life Cycle (MDLC) which starts from the concept phase to the distribution phase