ODOLNOST ČESKÉHO VENKOVA V KONTEXTU TRENDŮ DIGITÁLNÍ PROPASTI MEZI MĚSTY A VENKOVEM V ROZVOJOVÝCH DOKUMENTECH ČESKÉ VLÁDY A EVROPSKÉ UNIE
THE RESILIENCE OF THE CZECH COUNTRYSIDE IN THE CONTEXT OF TRENDS IN THE DIGITAL DIVIDE BETWEEN URBAN AND RURAL AREAS IN THE DEVELOPMENT DOCUMENTS OF THE CZECH GOVERNMENT AND THE EUROPEAN UNION

Author(s): René Wokoun, Petra Ledvinová
Subject(s): Governance, Rural and urban sociology, Economic development, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: rural resilience; digital divide; Czech Republic; regional policy development documents;
Summary/Abstract: The issue of rural resilience is a traditional research topic, but in the last ten to twenty years this question has arisen as a result of the relatively rapid development of society's digitalisation in a new way, ie rural resilience in the context of urban and rural digital divide trends. In our paper, we focus on the issue of the resilience of the Czech countryside in the context of trends in the digital divide between urban and rural areas in the development documents of the Czech government and in the broader context of European Union documents. The aim of the article is to clearly state the main moments from important Czech and EU documents related to the main topic. The main method is excerpting the available documents and synthesis of the acquired knowledge. We also dealt with the importance of high-speed internet and digital abyss between cities and rural areas as well as on an example of primary schools. The main results are the finding that all Czech documents and EU strategies focus generally on high-speed internet and network development and pay only limited attention to rural regions. In connection with our topic, it is interesting to note that the key EU documents show the priority of ICT as an important means of fulfilling the objectives of the priority axes, including rural regions. However, the development of digitization is significant in urban regions, and in rural areas we are witnessing rather lagging behind, which is only to a limited extent reflected in the documents.

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