书目名称 | Digital Towns | 副标题 | Accelerating and Mea | 编辑 | Theo Lynn,Pierangelo Rosati,Colm O‘Gorman | 视频video | | 概述 | Provides definitions, key concepts and constructs for measuring digital towns.Explores the adoption and use of digital technologies enabling digital town initiatives.Identifies the benefits and challe | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .This open access book explores the digital transformation of small and rural towns, in particular, how to measure the evolution and development of digital towns. In addition to access to resources, competition from urban and global markets, and population trends, rural communities present lesser access and use of digital technologies and have lower digital competencies and skills than their urban counterparts. Consequently, they experience less beneficial outcomes from increased digitalisation than urban areas. This book defines what a digital town is and explores digitalisation from the perspective of the four basic economic sectors in towns - individuals and households, businesses, the public sector, and civil society - and three types of enabling infrastructure - digital connectivity, education, and governance. Particular attention is paid to how digitalisation efforts are measured by intergovernmental and international organisations for each sector and enabling infrastructure. The book concludes with a Digital Town Readiness Framework that offers local communities, policymakers, and scholars an initial set of indicators upon which to develop digital town initiatives, and meas | 出版日期 | Book‘‘‘‘‘‘‘‘ 2022 | 关键词 | digital policy; public policy; urban rural divide; broadband; connectivity; Digital Citizen; technology ma | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91247-5 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-91249-9 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-91247-5 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022 |
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