public discourse in recent years, understanding of the interaction between digitalization and civic participation in rural … the intersection of digitalization, participatory efforts and rural development. Overall, our study shows that digital … rural development and its interplay with participation processes is still a niche concern in scientific journals. We find …

Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, residents in peripheral and structurally weak rural areas began to move into the … digital age. Digital tools are being used and developed to address existing challenges in rural areas such as local … process perspective, this paper asks how the processes and dynamics of digitally supported social innovations in rural areas …

This paper presents initial findings on the establishment of a social logistics project in a peripheral rural region in … Germany. As part of a real-life laboratory, two services were developed and tested with the aim of improving rural supply: the … delivery of regional goods and the return of online orders in cooperation with a regional public transport provider, regional …

rural areas are required at both a European and a German level. With regard to this, the field of post-school education as a … service of general interest is seen as playing an important role with considerable effects on regional development processes …. Educational institutions, traditionally highly centralised, have been shown to influence decisions on staying in or leaving rural …