Bridging the Urban-Rural Divide

Lakshmanan, V. I.; Kalyanasundaram, S.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-68458-7_3

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“…A consideration of additional sources might have increased the corpus and scope of our review since tangible efforts to digitally foster participation and discussion of best practices are more likely to be found in white papers, conference papers or workshop presentations. Because the topic is multidisciplinary and still emerging it is not only addressed by different disciplines, for example, sociology, political science, regional sciences and engineering, but in different types of publications and venues, as the subject is also of prime concern for actors in spheres beyond academia such as industry and politics (Lakshmanan/Chockalingam/Murty et al 2022).…”

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Digitalization and Civic Participation in Rural Areas. A Systematic Review of Scientific Journals, 2010-2020

Stein

Pentzold

Peter

et al. 2022

RuR

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The smart village is digitally networked and participatory. Its “smartness”, in other words, should be based on interaction between technological infrastructures and civic engagement.While this vision has inspired European policymaking and public discourse in recent years, understanding of the interaction between digitalization and civic participation in rural areas remains limited. In order to fill this gap, this paperoffers a systematic review of journal contributions situated at the intersection of digitalization, participatory efforts and rural development. Overall, our study shows that digital rural development and its interplay with participation processes is still a niche concern in scientific journals. We find that articles focus primarily on projects seeking to increase broadband capacity. Second, they focus on the spatial characteristics of rural areas, where social relations and intermediaries play an important role. Third, they emphasize the integration of topdownmeasures with bottom-up initiatives. There is no single, dominant theoretical approach conceptualizing the intertwining of digitalization and civic participation processes in rural areas. It is evident that local social networks are strengthenedand maintained through both analogue and digital formats. Furthermore, the literature provides evidence that sustainable forms of digital engagement are based on civil society initiatives that are supported and accompanied by administrative measures.

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confidence: 99%

Digitalization and Civic Participation in Rural Areas. A Systematic Review of Scientific Journals, 2010-2020

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Pentzold

Peter

et al. 2022

RuR

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“…Smart villages are expected to bridge the urban-rural divide. The smart village can be implemented using modern digital technologies, modern management techniques and current social sensibilities [43]. As the economic engine of most rural communities is agriculture, the development of smart villages must include a roadmap to promote agricultural methods, optimize agricultural human resources, and introduce new technologies and processes.…”

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DeCASA in AgriVerse: Parallel Agriculture for Smart Villages in Metaverses

Wang

Kang

Sun

et al. 2022

IEEE/CAA J. Autom. Sinica

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The demand for food is tremendously increasing with the growth of the world population, which necessitates the development of sustainable agriculture under the impact of various factors, such as climate change. To fulfill this challenge, we are developing Metaverses for agriculture, referred to as AgriVerse, under our Decentralized Complex Adaptive Systems in Agriculture (DeCASA) project, which is a digital world of smart villages created alongside the development of Decentralized Sciences (DeSci) and Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) for Cyber-Physical-Social Systems (CPSSs). Additionally, we provide the architectures, operating modes and major applications of DeCASA in Agri-Verse. For achieving sustainable agriculture, a foundation model based on ACP theory and federated intelligence is envisaged. Finally, we discuss the challenges and opportunities.

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“…At the same time, however, empirical research suggests that actors in many rural areas do not just complain about these problems or run away from them but rather take action and develop novel solutions [9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. People come together in heterogeneous constellations of actors [16][17][18][19].…”

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Socially Innovative Initiatives in Deprived Rural Areas of Germany, Ireland and Portugal: Exploring Empowerment and Impact on Community Development

Christmann,

Sept,

Richter

2024

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In many (remote) rural areas of Europe and the world, rural communities are facing various challenges. One response is residents leaving their communities. However, there are also many empirical examples of residents staying, launching project initiatives, developing new solutions and experimenting with new practices. This is what we call social innovation. What experiences do actors have in these processes? Can we speak of empowerment? To what extent can such initiatives have an impact on community development? In this article, we explore these questions, for which there is little related empirical research. By applying a multi-sited individualising comparison to case studies in three European countries (Germany, Ireland and Portugal), we obtain empirical evidence of the following dimensions of empowerment that Avelino et al. outline conceptually: the achievement of autonomy, competence and relatedness and also impact, meaning and resilience. Often, however, it is not the individual actors for whom such effects can be reported. Rather, the social initiative as such or the local administration has acquired new skills and autonomy. Regarding community development, ‘pathways to impact’, such as infrastructure improvements and/or the creation of new employment opportunities and/or the influx of new residents, could be identified. However, this development often depended on both opportunity and the cooperation and goodwill of many stakeholders.

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Bridging the Urban-Rural Divide

Cited by 4 publications

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Digitalization and Civic Participation in Rural Areas. A Systematic Review of Scientific Journals, 2010-2020

Digitalization and Civic Participation in Rural Areas. A Systematic Review of Scientific Journals, 2010-2020

DeCASA in AgriVerse: Parallel Agriculture for Smart Villages in Metaverses

Socially Innovative Initiatives in Deprived Rural Areas of Germany, Ireland and Portugal: Exploring Empowerment and Impact on Community Development

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