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Thinking Together Digitalization and Social Innovation in Rural Areas: An Exploration of Rural Digitalization Projects in Germany

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  • Sept, Ariane

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Digitalization and social innovation are often discussed separately and without any spatial reference or in relation to cities, although newer works show the importance of social innovation also for rural areas. Existing digitalization projects illustrate the potential of digital technologies for rural development. Current debates on smart villages refer to both digitalization and social innovation but still in a rather unsystematic way. The paper seeks to think together digitalization and social innovation in rural areas more systemically and proposes to conceptually connect them with the help of sensitizing concepts, which are developed out of debates on social and digital social innovation. Along these concepts, the paper explores rural digitalization projects in Germany. On the one hand, this highlights the spectrum of these initiatives and, on the other hand, provides a framework under which digitalization and social innovation can be analyzed and smart villages may be supported systematically.

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  • Sept, Ariane, 2020. "Thinking Together Digitalization and Social Innovation in Rural Areas: An Exploration of Rural Digitalization Projects in Germany," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 12(2), pages 193-208.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:espost:260356
    DOI: 10.2478/euco-2020-0011
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    1. Zerrer, Nicole & Sept, Ariane, 2020. "Smart Villagers as Actors of Digital Social Innovation in Rural Areas," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 5(4), pages 78-88.
    2. Suwei Gao & Xiaobei Yang & Huizhen Long & Fengrui Zhang & Qin Xin, 2023. "The Sustainable Rural Industrial Development under Entrepreneurship and Deep Learning from Digital Empowerment," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(9), pages 1-19, April.
    3. Zhang, Qian & Webster, Natasha A. & Han, Shengnan & Ayele, Workneh Yilma, 2023. "Contextualizing the rural in digital studies: A computational literature review of rural-digital relations," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 75(C).
    4. Tieli Wang & Dingliang Wang & Zhiwei Zeng, 2024. "Research on the Construction and Measurement of Digital Governance Level System of County Rural Areas in China—Empirical Analysis Based on Entropy Weight TOPSIS Model," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(11), pages 1-23, May.
    5. Nicole Zerrer & Ariane Sept, 2020. "Smart Villagers as Actors of Digital Social Innovation in Rural Areas," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 5(4), pages 78-88.

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