Roadmap Step: Monitoring
Monitoring is crucial for understanding the process of smart village development and implementation, as well as the outcomes and results. It can help identifying specific needs, barriers and enabling factors and can shed light on strengths and weaknesses of the stakeholder engagement process. It can also contribute to adapting the strategy (and its targets) as and when necessary. Monitoring needs to be based on a S.M.A.R.T. approach, continuously ensuring that the actions defined by the strategy are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and timely.
The ‘Website appraisal and communication planning tool’ has been developed with the aim to help local communities assessing their own website and communication tools that can be the basis of taking further actions for improving the website and communication strategy of a local community.
The tool can help to take the first steps in developing a comprehensive communication strategy, through considering various communication tools from internal to external communication.
