A Digital Platform to Facilitate the Resilience of Rural Territories

Abstract

This work shows how we have designed and implemented a digital platform for Smart Villages, which can serve as a knowledge management and decision support system for rural stakeholders, including planners, administrative staff, and decision-makers. Our platform is intended to help pilot a smooth transition into a sustainable administration, help to boost rural services through digital innovation, and, in general, reduce the gap concerning the city’s world. Although the platform has arisen around a community belonging to the European Alpine Space, the lessons learned can be easily transferred to other scenarios in which determining and improving the degree of smartness maturity of the rural communities is a critical challenge that can facilitate undertaking public or private investments. Our goal is to provide the necessary tools for collaboration and sharing experiences and data collection and analysis to enable the best possible informed decision-making concerning the promotion of smarter villages.