XMART VILLAGE MATURITY ASSESSMENT MODEL

A smart village is a concept which refers to a set, series or even a bundle of services being delivered to a group of residents inhabiting that particular rural area and businesses effectively and efficiently [1]. Smart villages brings together leading scientists, thinkers and doers across the globe to help lift people out of rural poverty from the bottom up, using access to technology services as a catalyst for rural development. The preliminary problems of smart village implementations are related to the existing condition of a village, which shall also be its starting point. Therefore, through this paper we propose using maturity model measurement and assessment to understand the existing conditions of a village in its effort to adopt smart village concept. This paper will discuss the implementation of maturity level in Lamajang Village and Cipacing Village, West Java using Smart village Maturity and Assessment.