Rural Development
Complementary net
for rural development based on the new information technologies.
As most of the professionals of the Rural Development affirm,
the integrated rural development is the best form of developing a rural
area through an endogenous development. Through this idea the Galician
government has started the plan of Regional Development of Galicia.
This endogenous development is still based on some exogenous systems
of information, almost have more than enough entirety, not conserving a
benefit of the whole potential of development of the area.
Said in another way, it also exist diverse sources of informations
for rural world, but they are not related to each other, and they don't
allow the use of all their advantages. These informations can be related
inside a center of common resources that serves like support to the internal
rural development. The services can be, according to the green book for
the society of the information: Administration services, education,
public sanity, thematic information, credit , work, etc.
The prospective objectives of the installation of this type of projects
are the objectives of the integrated rural development; then lack to look
for the way of coordinating all these initiatives. The technologies and
services to the rural areas can be united inside these centers of resources.,
but difficulties exist to be used as support to the rural development because
of the barriers to the introduction of new systems of information.
On the other hand, these systems are already confronted to a
informationsystem established, a weak formation of the economic actors
(including the development actors), a structure of the agents or of the
centralized development politicis, a physical structure of the media, so
the own problem of the development area.
The setting of a rural development process based on the information
technologies would allow the access to the information, to the formation
and other services offered through the existence of specialized centers.
So, this installation, would allow the circulation of endogenous informations
to the community that would help to the creation of new knots and
sinergies in the rural areas.
Meanwhile, the problem will be how to translate the actions for a environement
characterized by a low level of formation as well as to incentivate the
creation of services and to incite its use for an integrated rural development.
These new systems of information, quite far from their users, should
be translated to the particular contexts of the area and the agents
who use them.
As long as product, these systems can be consumed like all other, but
as long as development outil, the politics of introduction of these
systems should be accompanied by other channels, as the formation politics
and of the development actors' information.
In this sense, the introduction of a new equivalent component to a
translator-mediator could incite the formation, the interrelations and
the coordination of the development actors. This way, the formulation of
a series of scenarios for such politics and a later formulation of questions
and of hypothesis about operation of this class of actions, they
are very useful to advance on the implications of a complementary net based
on the high qualification of the development agents. The objective is
to diffuse and to translate the outils technician-informacionales such
that drive toward the growth and to the decrease of the inequalities, and
cause in last term the social cohesion.
The creation of a net based on the integrated rural development structures
can help to the administration of this development giving new useful to
the development agents and providing information sinergies to the
rest of the rural actors.
This rent can even be based on the infrastructure of the group responsible
for the integrated rural development, but it is necessary to also know
when it will be possible to install and to put into operation these systems,
because if we agree about the benefits that these systems would involve
in the rural zones, the negative consequences of those new possibilities
exclusion should be kept in mind.