RT Journal Article
T1 Towards socio-digital rural territories to drive digital transformation: General conceptualisation and application to the olive areas of Andalusia, Spain
A1 Reina-Usuga, Liliana
A1 Parra-López, Carlos
A1 Sánchez-Zamora, Pedro
A1 Carmona-Torres, Carmen
K1 Agricultura - Innovaciones tecnológicas
AB This study has two objectives: 1) to develop a theoretical framework for the analysis of DT in rural areas from a territorial perspective, through the proposal of the concept of ‘socio-digital rural territories’ (SDRT); and 2) to analyse the specific case of the olive areas of Andalusia where DT is starting in recent years. For this purpose, Social Network Analysis (SNA) techniques are used, both to build the theoretical framework and to evaluate the concepts developed at a practical level in the case study. The results obtained show that addressing DT in rural areas from a territorial approach should consider the technological innovation system (TIS) and relational social capital (RSC), embedded in the technological and social dimensions of a territory, as key elements to promote successful dynamics towards a SDRT. On the other hand, the analysis of the DT network in the olive-growing areas of Andalusia (the DT olive network) shows that the actors that stand out for their role as knowledge emitters include digital technologies companies, knowledge generation agents, knowledge transfer agents and the scientific and informative media.
PB Elsevier
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/32641
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/32641
LA eng
NO Liliana Reina-Usuga, Carlos Parra-López, Pedro Sánchez-Zamora, Carmen Carmona-Torres, Towards socio-digital rural territories to drive digital transformation: General conceptualisation and application to the olive areas of Andalusia, Spain, Geoforum, Volume 145, 2023, 103827, ISSN 0016-7185, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103827.
NO The authors wish to express their gratitude for the financial support received from the Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries Research and Training (IFAPA) through the research project “Digital transformation of the olive sector in Andalusia: Systemic, structural and functional analysis to promote its development (digitalOli)” (PR.AVA.AVA2019.009), being co-financed at 80% by the European Regional Development Fund, within the Operational Programme FEDER of Andalusia 2014–2020
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 19 ene 2026