Superfast Broadband and Rural Community Resilience: Examining the Rural Need for Speed

Ashmore, Fiona; Farrington, John; Skerratt, Sarah

doi:10.1080/14702541.2014.978808

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“…Moreover, these measures can counteract the magnetic effect that fast access to urban nodes exerts on rural areas, further worsening de-anthropization processes and socio-economic marginalization. In this respect, digitalization is a key element, as a prerequisite for smart and e-services, that can prove very effective in addressing rural accessibility challenges [73][74][75][76][77][78][79].…”

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Improving Rural Accessibility: A Multilayer Approach

Brovarone

Cotella

2020

Sustainability

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Rural territories are worse equipped than urban ones in terms of accessibility to services and opportunities, due to their scattered development and peripheral character. Increasing cuts to loss-making services in traditional public transport contributed to increased social inequality and marginality, in so doing undermining the livability of rural communities. In this light, improving accessibility is an essential prerequisite for the sustainable development of rural areas. Whereas demand responsive transport solutions are often seen as a panacea in circumstances where traditional services are not viable, their implementation is more challenging than it may seem, due to the potential barriers intrinsically related to the differential socioeconomic, cultural, and institutional features of places. Furthermore, enhancing transport offer is only one side of the multifaceted prism of rural accessibility, and the institution of effective multi-level and multi-sector governance mechanisms is a precondition to approach the mentioned challenges under a more comprehensive perspective. Drawing on the results of the European Territorial Observatory Network (ESPON) Urban-Rural Connectivity in Non-Metropolitan Areas (URRUC) project, the paper sheds light on this issue, exploring the accessibility challenges of rural areas and proposing a multilayer policy approach aimed at supporting decision-makers in improving rural accessibility across Europe.

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Section: Operational Layermentioning

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Improving Rural Accessibility: A Multilayer Approach

Brovarone

Cotella

2020

Sustainability

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“…This situation is often found in rural areas, and particularly in Scotland, where geographical features, such as mountains, lochs and islands, make it difficult to provide broadband infrastructure [19,20]. Yet the delivery of services via ICT are even more important for isolated rural communities which might be otherwise cut off from mainstream developments [2]. As demand rises, these services require more and more bandwidth.…”

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Community broadband initiatives

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Vincent

Luguzan

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Communities and Technologies

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Although access to broadband has become a facility embedded in everyday life, many communities still have poor or no connectivity, especially in rural areas. The paper considers how some local communities have taken matters into their own hands and set up their own community broadband infrastructure in the UK. The paper examines four case study rural communities in terms of the organisation of broadband provision. It identifies common skills and resources that were necessary in order for these community broadband initiatives to be successful in the form of five capitals: human, technological, identity and financial.

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“…The quotations were selected by the researchers who conducted the interviews and have all been anonymised. Further information about the research the illustrative quotations were drawn from is available in Ashmore et al (2015) for project 1 and Williams et al (2014) for project 2.…”

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‘Two-speed’ Scotland: Patterns and Implications of the Digital Divide in Contemporary Scotland

Philip

Cottrill

Farrington

2015

Scottish Geographical Journal

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Digital communication is a routine element of everyday life. Well-established communications technologies such as telephones and televisions have been joined, more recently, by widespread use of mobile telecommunications and by digital connectivity associated with the Internet. The use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) relies upon a digital infrastructure comprising telecommunications masts, cables, exchanges and satellites. ICT infrastructure provision is uneven across the UK, resulting in an urban-rural digital divide. In this paper, we present an analysis of the most recent mobile telecommunications and broadband infrastructure data published by Ofcom, the UK telecommunications regulator. Similarities and stark differences between urban, accessible rural and remote rural areas of Scotland are identified. Our analysis demonstrates that there is, in digital communications terms, a 'two-speed' Scotland where (most) urban areas are in the digital fast lane and (most) rural areas are in the digital slow lane. Implications of this geographical digital divide for individuals who live in, and businesses that operate within, rural areas are considered. The findings, though based on an analysis of Scottish data, have relevance in a broader UK context and in Europe, North America and Australasia where an urban-rural digital divide also exists.

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Superfast Broadband and Rural Community Resilience: Examining the Rural Need for Speed

Cited by 43 publications

References 22 publications

Improving Rural Accessibility: A Multilayer Approach

Improving Rural Accessibility: A Multilayer Approach

Community broadband initiatives

‘Two-speed’ Scotland: Patterns and Implications of the Digital Divide in Contemporary Scotland

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