Smart Village and Sustainability. Southern Moravia Case Study

Vaishar Antonín () and Šťastná Milada ()
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Vaishar Antonín: Department of Applied and Landscape Ecology, Faculty of AgriSciences, Mendel University in Brno, Czechia.
Šťastná Milada: Department of Applied and Landscape Ecology, Faculty of AgriSciences, Mendel University in Brno, Czechia.

European Countryside, 2019, vol. 11, issue 4, 651-660

Abstract: The paper is aimed at an attempt to define a smart village in the Czech conditions. It argues that the principles of smart villages are very similar to the concept of sustainability. The analysis deals with preventing rural exclusion, promoting digital technologies for the management of the rural infrastructure, teleworking in rural areas and using ICT for participation and governance. This approach is documented in the case of the South-Moravian Region. It was concluded that it was not so much coverage or accessibility of digital technology that was the main barrier of more intensive use of the smart village concept but rather the lower qualification level and conservatism of rural population is. It is suggested that more attention should be paid to increasing the digital literacy of rural people.

Keywords: smart village; digital technologies; sustainability; South Moravia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.2478/euco-2019-0036

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