Digitisation of rural areas -DiGiL

Due to ongoing proceeding valorisation with fast data connection, new and diverse possibilities are revealed especially in rural areas. Problems may be solved with completely new manners and approaches. Especially the rural area of Saxony-Anhalt suffers from strong migration. The reasons are multifarious:

  • low number of qualified workplaces
  • lack of shopping facilities
  • problematic medical and health care
  • limitation in public transport
  • difficult use of administrative services due to being distant
  • few possibilities to cultural access

Digital solutions provide the opportunity to create solutions that reduce problems and eventually make rural life more attractive again. Not only the implementation of individual solutions is essential, but especially recognising interrelated possibilities and identifying them within individual solution packages suited to the particularities of individual municipalities. From a scientific point of view, it has to be examined which solution approaches can or could be successfully implemented. The effects of such projects should objectively be evaluated in order to identify and generalise the most successful approaches.