The Chair of Digital Divide and Territory of the UJI puts the focus on the digital transformation of Alto Palancia



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## The Chair of Digital Divide and Territory of the UJI puts the focus on the digital transformation of Alto Palancia

30/03/2023 |
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The headquarters of the Alto Palancia County Association hosted an informative conference on Smart Villages yesterday, in which the digital transformation of small towns was analyzed through innovative solutions aimed at guaranteeing the survival of the rural world. Under the title Rural futures with digital tools, the meeting was organized jointly by the Chair of Digital Gap and Territory of the Universitat Jaume I, the County Association and the valencian Department of Innovation, Universities, Science and Digital Society. Local development agents (ADL) from all over the region took part in the forum, as well as technicians from different areas of the County Association (Equality, Youth, Social Services, Employment and European Funds).

The director of the Chair, Vicent Querol, shared the inauguration with María Muñoz, general director for the Fight against the Digital Gap of the Generalitat Valenciana, and Jessica Miravete, president of the County Association and mayor of Azuébar. Muñoz emphasized the importance of the work of the network of chairs against the digital divide. "In the case of the territorial digital divide, the issue of access to the web is very important to us, but also the skills of the population or the extension of 'smart city' models to the rural world." For her part, Miravete showed the maximum availability of the County Association to collaborate in the advancement of digitization, based on the "greatest difficulties" that Alto Palancia presents, "with a long way to go."

Professor Joan Sanfélix then presented the practical guide Smart Villages, "an open document" as Querol recalled, thought from the transformation of rurality from an intelligent paradigm and from the use of technological resources from the collective point of view of its tools. This action roadmap is aimed at turning localities into smart towns with solutions ranging from Big Data to the Internet of Things (IoT) and other digital tools. In this sense, Sanfélix and Querol emphasized the relevance of thinking about projects from an inclusive perspective and introducing figures such as the sociodigital agent, capable of energizing different types of initiatives with the local population.

In this way, the conference raised the feasibility of developing smart towns, applying innovative solutions to face the challenges of their social context and improve their resilience, taking advantage of their strengths and the opportunities that arise at the local level. Querol invited attendees to, first of all, "imagine among all the actors where we want to go, in a participatory way, so as not to restrict possible futures, something that has marked us a lot in the rural area, limiting initiatives to agriculture, livestock and tourism: the diagnosis of the present disables opening glances to the future».

Next, a workshop was developed for the elaboration of digital town projects, in which the steps that can be followed to promote social transformation with information and communication technologies were specified. Finally, Sara Prades, territorial director of the valencian Department of Innovation, has closed the meeting reaffirming the convenience of "rethinking rurality" and advancing in the digital transformation with the aim of guaranteeing the quality of life of territories in the process of depopulation..

The UJI’s Digital Gap and Territory Chair aims to guide policies and actions so that no one in the rural environment is left behind in the great technological and attitudinal transformation we are experiencing. As a result of the collaboration between the UJI and the General Directorate for the Fight against the Digital Divide of the Ministry of Innovation, Universities, Science and the Digital Society, the Chair carries out research, training and dissemination actions to move towards a full inclusion: fairer, more accessible and more democratic in the various areas of the Valencian territory.

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