Socio-Economic Model Development for Adaptation and Mitigation Strategy to Climate Change through ICT Implementation

The Southeast Asia region, including Indonesia and Malaysia, is an area that is still vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The phenomenon of climate change is rapidly becoming an issue whose impact is being felt in wider society today. Adaptation and mitigation strategies for climate change, developing socio-economic models, and ICT implementation are the main issues that need to be studied in this research. However, appropriate and practical strategies for climate change adaptation and mitigation are still very complicated problems when linked to the development of socio-economic models and the implementation of ICT. This research aims to empirically test the influence of socio-economic model development on climate change adaptation and mitigation strategy through ICT implementation. This empirical study used a quantitative approach, and it was supported by several kinds of data sources, including online surveys and data from literature reviews. Statistical processing of empirical data using smartPLS software. The main research findings reveal that ICT implementation has a significant role in mediating the influence of socio-economic model development on adaptation and mitigation strategy for climate change. However, other findings further reveal that ICT implementation is not purely moderate but has the potential to strengthen the influence of socio-economic model development on adaptation and mitigation strategies for climate change. The research findings will significantly contribute to stakeholders and related parties involved in climate change issues at the national and international levels, especially in improving adaptation and mitigation strategies to climate change based on socio-economic model development through ICT implementation.