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Socio-economic Problems of Digital Transformation of Rural Areas

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Agriculture Digitalization and Organic Production (ADOP 2023)

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The digitalization of rural areas in Russia lags behind the EU countries. This requires an assessment of potential drivers, barriers, and consequences of this process, taking into account foreign practices. The purpose of the study is to systematize the views of foreign authors on the factors, barriers, and consequences of the digital transformation of rural areas in the context of Russian reality. Methods and materials: content analysis of articles, express analysis of statistical data. Results: socio-economic factors have a significant impact on the digitalization of rural areas. Factors are characterized by duality and can be both drivers and barriers to digitalization. By improving the quantitative parameters of “barriers”, it is possible to transfer them to the state of “drivers”. Barriers to the digitalization of rural areas in Russia are the low density of population and rural settlements, the small population of rural settlements. This complicates the creation of digital infrastructure. The competitive advantage of Russia in the development of mobile communications and broadband mobile Internet is an important driver of rural digitalization. This factor largely helps to neutralize the negative impact of “barriers” and can become the main “agenda” of digitalization in the long term.

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The reported study was funded by the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia, project number FFZF-2022-0018.

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Kostyaev, A. (2023). Socio-economic Problems of Digital Transformation of Rural Areas. In: Ronzhin, A., Kostyaev, A. (eds) Agriculture Digitalization and Organic Production. ADOP 2023. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 362. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4165-0_1

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