Empowering Rural Communities to Measure Walkability: Co‐Development of a Digital Tool

Key Points

• The research aims to empower rural communities by involving them in the creation and use of a digital tool to measure walkability.
• Co-development of the digital walkability tool with community involvement
• Data collection using the developed walkability tool within the community
• Sense-making and interpretation of the data collected from the tool
• Conducting interviews to gather feedback on the tool
• Effective co-development led to higher community engagement
• Participants provided meaningful insights on walkability through data collection
• Feedback from interviews highlighted areas for tool improvement