Remote rural home based businesses and digital inequalities: understanding needs and expectations in a digitally underserved community

Lorna Philip; Fiona Williams

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.09.011

Remote rural home based businesses and digital inequalities: understanding needs and expectations in a digitally underserved community

Lorna Philip^* (Corresponding Author), Fiona Williams^* (Corresponding Author)

^*Corresponding author for this work

Geography & Environment

University of Chester

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Abstract

The digital economy offers home based micro-businesses in rural areas many advantages but stubborn social, economic and territorial digital divides continue to create challenges for this sector of the rural economy. Complex digital inequalities are illustrated in our case studies of the digital behaviour and Internet experiences of those running micro, home based businesses in a remote, digitally underserved rural community before, during and after the deployment of broadband technology. Findings draw attention to the role and importance of fit-for-purpose broadband in promoting digital inclusion for individuals, households and small, home based businesses: in a fast changing digital national and global economy remote rural home based micro-businesses are at risk of being left behind.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	306-318
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of Rural Studies
Volume	68
Early online date	9 Oct 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.09.011
Publication status	Published - May 2019

Bibliographical note

This paper reports research supported by an award made by the RCUK Digital Economy programme to the dot.rural Digital Economy Hub, award reference EP.G066051/1. The authors thank Caitlin Cottrill for producing the map presented in Figure 1 and acknowledge the contributions to the wider Rural PAWS project made by Hassan Hamdoun, Althaff Mohideen and, in particular, John Farrington and Gorry Fairhurst. Thanks are also offered to Mags Currie and Stephanie Doebler and all those who offered comments on an earlier draft of the paper at the 2017 meeting of the Trans-Atlantic Rural Research Network and to the three anonymous reviewers whose constructive comments improved the final version of the paper.

Keywords

Home based businesses
digital divides
remote rural
digital inequalities
Remote rural
Digital divides
Digital inequalities

UN SDGs

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Remote rural home based businesses and digital inequalities: understanding needs and expectations in a digitally underserved community

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