99247 20230706131411.0 doi 10.3390/informatics7040054 sideral 122692 ART-2020-122692 eng Esteban-Navarro, M.A. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-6221-2824 The Rural Digital Divide in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Europe-Recommendations from a Scoping Review 2020 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the digital vulnerability of many citizens of the rural world. This article identifies and analyzes the proposals made by academic literature to overcome the digital divide in the European rural world for the five-year period 2016-2020. A scoping review has been carried out according to the PRISMA methodology in the two dimensions of the digital divide: access and connectivity, and use and exploitation. Online databases were used to identify scientific articles from which, after screening, 28 key documents were selected. The results update Salemink systematic review of articles published between 1991 and 2014 on digital and rural development in Western countries and it also intends to go beyond by extracting recommendations. A variety of political, social, educational, technical and economic issues has been exposed, with a common emphasis on the empowerment of rural populations. The findings provide actionable evidence and proposals to facilitate decision-making in current policy information to overcome rural digital divide. From them, seven recommendations that could have a wide and rapid impact to minimize the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic linked to the rural digital divide are synthesized. Three lines of action in the medium term are also proposed: the evaluation of national and regional public policies; the consideration of digital inclusion as a potential instrument to reduce rural depopulation; and the training in advanced digital skills to improve the social communication processes, considered key to promote empowerment and entrepreneurship. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/FEDER info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/S29-20R-GICID info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 0.451 2020 Communication 2020 Q2 Human-Computer Interaction 2020 Q2 Computer Networks and Communications 2020 Q2 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Garcia-Madurga, M.A. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-7816-0050 Morte-Nadal, T. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-4459-9361 Nogales-Bocio, A.I. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-0050-6979 4012 650 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Direcc.Organiza.Empresas Área Organización de Empresas 5013 105 Universidad de Zaragoza Unidad Predepartam. Period.Co. Área Comunic.Audiovis.Publici. 7, 4 (2020), 54 [18 pp] Informatics 2227-9709 467582 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/99247/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 2339972 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/99247/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:99247 articulos driver 2023-07-06-12:20:49 ARTICLE