Abstract
This paper illustrates the measures and digital integrations being made in the course of digitalization, using the example of existing rural pilot communities in Bavaria, Germany. The participating communities were selected as part of the government-funded project "Digitales Dorf" (Engl. digital village). Since 2016, digital solutions as well as complementary actions have been identified and implemented to make everyday life in the community equal to that in the city: the main intention is to push digitalization to create equivalent living conditions to urban areas. This paper is intended to provide an overview of the requirements and steps that need to be taken in digital transformation, in order to develop a generalized blueprint for other communities. Furthermore, it introduces the pilot projects, provides an insight into best practices to promote digitalization in traditional rural areas, and focuses on the transformation process rather than on digital solutions.
Highlights
This article discusses the problem of the adoption of digital technologies in rural areas in Bavaria, Germany
A deeper insight to the citizen's role is given below. Despite trends such as urbanization and rural exodus, the following conditions illustrate the significance of rural areas for Germany with its 83.2 million inhabitants5: rural areas represent more than 90% of Germany's territory, but are the habitat for less than 60% of its citizens
This paper aims at sharing information gained from the living labs in the project "Digitales Dorf Bayern"7 in order to support similar digitalization projects in rural areas with lessons learned
Summary
This article discusses the problem of the adoption of digital technologies in rural areas in Bavaria, Germany. This paper aims at sharing information gained from the living labs in the project "Digitales Dorf Bayern" (digital village Bavaria; the latter is a federal state in Germany) in order to support similar digitalization projects in rural areas with lessons learned. For this purpose, an overview of digitalization and rural areas including their challenges forms the theoretical basis of this paper. It is shown how demand-oriented digitalization in rural areas can work in practice, and which benefits these "living labs" bring
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