Abstract
In 1950, approximately 1.8 billion lived in rural areas and subsequently, rural population growth averaged 1.0 per cent per year, with the result that the rural population nearly doubled, reaching 3.4 billion in 2018 and is expected to peak in 2021 at just over 3.4 billion. Rural villages are lacking behind urban areas when it come to the stages of industrial revolutions and societal development with respect to technological advancement. Today, the world is faced with the new wave of advanced technological revolution called Industry 4.0. Despite the impressive work being implemented successfully to create smart cities and smart villages in various countries, there are still no developed standard indicators that can be used to define smart rural village concept. The objective of the study is to develop indicators for smart rural villages aligned with Industry 4.0 technologies using systematic literature review, the 2030 agenda for sustainable development, as well as the ISO 37122, smart cities indicator's standard. The translation method developed prioritized indicators according to sustainability, smartness and connectivity from the Information and Communication Technology. The main contribution is the method and indicators developed over 2-year period for smart rural villages. The resulting indicators makes it possible to answer what a smart rural village is: village that has access to affordable energy, adequate housing, safe drinking water, an inquisitive rural culture, early warning systems against adverse weather conditions, against drinking water pollution as well as the predictable schedule for local doctor, taxi/bus.
Highlights
AND BACKGROUNDTODAY, the world is faced with the new wave of advanced technological revolution called Industry 4.0
These advancements may appear less immediately relevant to emerging economies that are still grappling with the challenges of the second and third industrial revolutions adopting new technologies will prove crucial for rapid and sustained productivity and economic growth [7]. This purpose of this paper is to develop indicators for smart rural villages aligned with Industry 4.0
Among the concepts discussed on the systematic literature review is smart city, smart village, sustainable development, sustainable development goals as well as the indicators and how they get developed from previous studies
Summary
TODAY, the world is faced with the new wave of advanced technological revolution called Industry 4.0. In other circles this is what is referred to as the fourth industrial revolution or 4IR. The concept of smart cities is born, which is not novel, but in the recent years it has taken on a new dimension of using ICTs to build and integrate critical infrastructures and services of a city [5]. It is important to note that the concept for urban smart communities is already very well established—e.g., Smart Cities, but less so for rural communities as the concept Smart Village has only recently gained momentum; for example, in the EU, the Smart Village Initiative was launched by the European Parliament in 2017, and the EU Action for Smart Villages document was published by the European Commission together with the European Parliament [6]. Smart network technologies with variable quality of service demand are crucial to enable 4IR in emerging economies [7]
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