Emerging potential for radical e-enabled improvements in rural collaboration and accessibility

Abstract

The focus of this paper is the emerging potential for radical e-enabled changes involving two key rural development drivers, namely: Enhanced collaboration - addressing problems such as small enterprise sizes low rural demand and supply chain volumes, as well as problems associated with limited local human capacities and uncoordinated or misdirected rural development planning; and enhanced accessibility - addressing the typical problems of rural isolation such as inadequated or costly digital and physical access to information, services, peers and markets. The main aim is to present a customised logical framework (CHICA[S]) - developed as a means to assess and prepare plans and value propositions or for realising this potential