The eTownz Dashboard is designed to support communities in the co-creation and ongoing maintenance of their community plans.

Community Plan:

The modular format allows communities to build a plan based on a thematic register of local assets, stakeholders, goals and projects

Participation:

The system allows residents and organisations to identify synergies and work together to meet common goals

Structure:

The supporting manual/framework give the community a clear methodology so activities can be clearly identified and managed in a sustainable and hassle-free manner

Features

Asset Register

Interactive dashboard to build/maintain local assets register

  • Allow members to discuss, suggest and develop projects to maintain, repurpose and create maximum value from local assets
  • Encourages annual asset review
  • Asset visualisations
  • eTownz provides support in developing asset registers using available open data

Stakeholder Register

Interactive dashboard to build/maintain local stakeholder register

  • Allows for 5 Stakeholder groups
  • Allows members to discuss and develop ways to support all local stakeholders
  • Encourages annual stakeholder review to survey them
  • Database of 250+ suggested stakeholder types to consider
  • eTownz provide support in developing stakeholder registers using available open data

Projects Register

  • Interactive dashboard to manage a register of local projects
  • Facilitates discussion through key stakes of a project lifecycle
  • Allows members to suggest new ideas and build teams of interested local volunteers/groups to develop projects
  • Helps new local volunteers to find projects that interest them
  • Helps community champions to delegate and share the workload


Goals & Metrics Register

Interactive dashboard to identify and monitor local goals and key performance metrics across a variety of thematic areas.

  • Includes a register of ‘Sustainable Development Goals’ & ‘EU Green Deal’ goals
  • eTownz include 20+ metric visualisations of census data comparing community stats to county and national figures
  • Provide up to date data feeds of ‘Live Register’ health stats, among others

Thematic Town Plans

  • The dashboard will compile up to date community plans based on any of the 75+ themes instantly
    • Each thematic plan provides a breakdown of Assets/ Stakeholders/ Projects/ Goals/ Metrics
    • Our annual program suggests each plan is reviewed and formalised at least once a year
    • The members are invited to become signatories of the plan

Record Management & Team Building

  • The dashboard will compile up to date community plans based on any of the 75+ themes instantly
    • Each thematic plan provides a breakdown of Assets/ Stakeholders/ Projects/ Goals/ Metrics
    • Our annual program suggests each plan is reviewed and formalised at least once a year
    • The members are invited to become signatories of the plan

Knowledge Library

  • A database of 500+ Assets, each tagged by a theme to prompt the community

Testimonials

Dr Maura Farrell

“Community rejuvenation, development and sustainability are increasingly key issues of concern within both a community and policy context, not only from an Irish perspective, but also on an international basis. Having carried out extensive work within the context of community and rural development, the issues that lie ahead are not, should communities initiate change for survival, but how do they go about doing this? eTownz are developing a holistic online platform that will allow communities, not only to explore the advantage and disadvantages of their community, but also to provide a clear direction of progression into the future. eTownz is both innovative and novel, has an identifiable market within Ireland and beyond and can assist in bringing local, small or large communities into an age where the internet can play a key role in igniting community development and sustainability.“

NUI Galway

Maura Adshead

“I would like to give my recommendation to Pat Kennedy and all the team at eConcepts / eTownz. I have worked with them on different web development, design and data-related projects and I found them to be extremely knowledgeable of digital services and how to bring together many aspects of a project to deliver a seamless end solution. We are currently actively working with them on two projects and look forward to working with them in the future on various projects. UL is a forward-thinking university and it’s so important that the research methodologies and findings are distributed in a coherent and suitable manner to the target audience and eConcepts / eTownz use all their experience in this area to great effect.”
Professor, University of Limerick

Gloria Callinan

“I work with Clare Local Development company which is an organisation that supports communities and community organisations in county Clare. We’ve been working with eTownz for over four years where they have assisted in the development of community plans for a number of towns in our area. We found their approach to be innovative, professional and personable. We would recommend eTownz and look forward to seeing the development of their services in the years to come.” 

Clare Local Development Company