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|a Digital Towns :
|b Accelerating and Measuring the Digital Transformation of Rural Societies and Economies.
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|a Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Defining, Rationalising and Measuring Digital Towns -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Digital Society-Key Concepts and Terms -- 1.2.1 What Do We Mean by Digital? -- 1.2.2 Mainstream vs Frontier Technologies -- 1.3 What Is a Town? -- 1.4 The Urban-Rural Digital Divide -- 1.5 Rationalising and Defining Digital Towns -- 1.6 The Need for a Discrete Digital Town Measurement Framework -- 1.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: The Digital Citizen -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Digital Divide -- 2.2.1 The Grey Digital Divide -- 2.2.2 The Income Digital Divide -- 2.2.3 The Education Digital Divide -- 2.2.4 The Gender Digital Divide -- 2.2.5 The Digital Divide and Other Vulnerable Parts of Society -- 2.3 Digital Literacy -- 2.4 New Forms of Work and Rural Towns -- 2.4.1 Remote Working -- 2.4.2 The Gig Economy -- 2.4.3 The Sharing Economy -- 2.5 Measuring Individual and Household Access and Use of Digital Technologies -- 2.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Digital Public Services -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 What Do We Mean by Digital Public Services? -- 3.3 E-Government -- 3.4 E-Health -- 3.5 Open Data -- 3.6 Measuring Digital Public Services -- 3.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: The Digital Economy and Digital Business -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 What Is the Digital Economy? -- 4.3 What Is Digital Business? -- 4.4 Benefits and Challenges of Digital Technologies for Businesses -- 4.5 Measuring Digital Business -- 4.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Digital Technologies and Civil Society -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Defining Civil Society -- 5.3 The Role of Civil Society -- 5.4 Digital Technologies and Civil Society -- 5.4.1 Mainstream Technologies -- 5.4.2 Frontier Technologies.
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|a 5.4.3 Digital Inclusion and Exclusion -- 5.5 Measuring Digital Civil Society -- 5.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Infrastructure for Digital Connectivity -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 What Is Infrastructure for Digital Connectivity? -- 6.3 Economic Impact of Infrastructure for Digital Connectivity -- 6.3.1 Macro-Level Economic Impact -- 6.3.2 Households and Digital Connectivity -- 6.3.3 Firm-Level Productivity and Entrepreneurship -- 6.3.4 Employment Impact of Digital Connectivity -- 6.4 Free and Municipal Wi-Fi -- 6.5 Rural Digital Hubs -- 6.6 Measuring Infrastructure for Digital Connectivity -- 6.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Digital Education -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 What Is Digital Education? -- 7.3 Digital Technologies in Education: Rationales, Benefits, and Challenges -- 7.4 Measuring Digital Education -- 7.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: The Governance of Digital Town Initiatives -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Agenda Setting and Governance of Digital Town Initiatives -- 8.3 Community Resilience, Vertical Integration, and Horizontal Integration -- 8.4 Measuring the Governance of Digital Town Initiatives -- 8.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 9: Bringing It All Together: The Digital Town Readiness Framework -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Design Principles -- 9.3 The Digital Town Readiness Framework (DTRF) -- 9.4 Digital Town Dimensions, Sub-dimensions, and Indicators -- 9.4.1 Digital Citizens -- 9.4.2 Digital Public Services -- 9.4.3 Digital Business -- 9.4.4 Digital Civil Society -- 9.4.5 Infrastructure for Digital Connectivity -- 9.4.6 Digital Education -- 9.4.7 Governance of Digital Town Initiatives -- 9.5 Methodological Considerations -- 9.5.1 Selection of Indicators -- 9.5.2 Data Collection -- 9.5.3 Data Preparation and Cleaning -- 9.5.4 Weighting and Aggregation -- 9.5.5 Sensitivity Analysis.
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|a 9.5.6 Stakeholder Support and Communication -- 9.6 Conclusion -- References -- Useful Links -- Index.
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