Vicent Querol: "We need cutting-edge positive discrimination" to fight the digital divide in the rural world



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## Vicent Querol: "We need cutting-edge positive discrimination" to fight the digital divide in the rural world

24/10/2022 |
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The director of the Chair in Digital Divide and Territory of the Universitat Jaume I, Vicent Querol, has participated in the first Congress on Sustainable Smart Villages of the Mediterranean, sponsored by the UJI and held from Thursday 20 to Saturday 22 October in Alicante, Valencia, Vall d'Ebo, Aras de los Olmos (Valencia) and Vilafranca (Castellón), in hybrid format.

Querol moderated a session on Friday 21 in Alicante, in which Carolyn Steel spoke on *Food crisis and smart territories*, and Marcel Iglesias Cuartero spoke on *The impact of the digital revolution on mountain villages*. Likewise, on Saturday 22, he took part in the round table discussion *Research on innovation in Valencian rural territories*, together with J. M. Rodríguez and J. M. García. In this debate, the director of the Chair defended the need for "leading positive discrimination" of inland towns to advance in the fight against the digital divide and reviewed the work carried out in towns in the Valencian Country, such as that developed for many years in Aras de los Olmos, or the experience of the PenyaLab laboratory in Vistabella del Maestrat, as well as the experience of the RuralCo coworking in Culla. In the opinion of Vicent Querol, "a smart village cannot be a bad copy of a smart city: it is necessary to generate projects from the bottom up and now money will come for digital transformation, and one wonders in what situation our villages will find themselves in this context. Will this money fall into a territory that is not prepared? We have to ask ourselves why and what we want a smart territory for". Querol also stressed that the right to smart villages must be articulated around inclusive projects in terms of youth, the elderly, immigration, disability and sexual diversity.

It should be remembered that the concept of smart village seeks to promote the development of rural areas through innovation and digitalisation, among other things. The aim is to improve and develop the social, economic and environmental conditions of these territories.

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

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