"Unleashing the rural digitisation potential" - article by Joachim von Braun & Heike Baumüller
June 16, 2017.
Unleashing the rural digitisation potential
Article by ZEF director Joachim von Braun and ZEF senior researcher Heike Baumüller
Information and communication technologies have seen rapid advances since the beginning of the millennium. While they hold a huge potential for rural areas, new Internet developments such as the “Internet of Things” and “Big Data” are set to create further opportunities. However, our authors argue that there is still much room for improvements, especially by bringing the many IT initiatives together on user-friendly platforms for farmers and other rural small businesses.
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