Architecting rural smartness: A collaborative platform design for rural digital business ecosystem

The wide urban–rural economic gap, particularly in developing countries, has led to various problems. To lower the participation of rural communities digital business ecosystems is being viewed as a promising approach. this end, we use design science research methodology present reference architecture smartness platform that facilitates emergence smarter ecosystem. This ecosystem embodies characteristics smartness, which are empirically proven have strong positive impact on improving climate. Evaluation by means expert opinion, technical action research, and empirical suggest proposed effectively improves climate feasible be implemented real-world setting. paper contributes body knowledge regarding establishment for communities, proposing solution resulting from perspective backed evidence.