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Digitalization of Rural Areas: Mobility Policy's Condition and Goal?

This article discusses the role of digital communication infrastructure in improving rural mobility and addresses the challenges faced by rural areas in accessing digital technologies. It explores the concept of the "Rural Penalty" and highlights the need to future-proof rural connectivity. The article also examines the role of local communities in promoting sustainable mobility and suggests rescaling rural areas as a solution to fragmented interests. Finally, it discusses different types of innovation that can drive progress in rural areas.

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Digitalization of Rural Areas: Mobility Policy's Condition and Goal?

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  1. Digitalisierung des ländlichenRaumsBedingungundEndziel der Mobilitätspolitik? Dr. Koen Salemink Department of CulturalGeography Faculty of Spatial Sciences University of Groningen

  2. Experiencesfrom ITRACT • ImprovingTRansportand Accessibility through new Communication Technologies • ICT applicationsto support ruralmobility Travel advice “Your next bus leaves: Mondaymorning…” or “No data…”

  3. Problem • Digital communication infrastructure is essential in mobility strategies… • …yet in rural areas, if is often inadequate • Rural Penalty (Malecki, 2003; 2010) • ‘Die Bestrafung des ländlichenRaums’(Salemink & Strijker, 2015)

  4. Rural Penalty “Rural areas are poorly served by markets in general, framed by Malecki as ‘the rural penalty’ (2003, p. 201). Poor broadband availability has become one aspect of this penalty. In rural areas, there is too little potential for profit, mainly because deployment is too costly and only a few potential subscribers can be reached with the cables, meaning that it is difficult for providers to achieve the minimum threshold for forming a sound business case” (Salemink, Strijker & Bosworth, 2017)

  5. Future-proofruralconnectivity (i) • Digitalization as coreingredient • Bedingung • Enablinginnovativemobility • Endziel • ‘…part of the digital spaces of flows’ • Digital Economyand Society

  6. Future-proofruralconnectivity (ii) • Ruralareas are on the wrong end of a digital divide • Poormaterialconnectivity • Fixed • Mobile • Lower adoption rates • Different adoption rates

  7. Was machenKommunenselber?

  8. NachhaltigeMobilität • Fragmentedrural interest • Cross-border • Multi-level • Multi-actor • Whocan take the lead? • Who has legislation?

  9. ‘Neuskalierung’ • Rescaling ‘therural’ as a solution tofragmentedrural interest • Geographicallyfocused • Specific (deep) ruralareasand issues • Integral policy efforts • Broad policy scope • Integralmeasures

  10. Project Dynamics andInnovation Technical innovation Operationalinnovation Institutionalinnovation Socialinnovation

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