Digital Villages (“Digitale Dörfer”)

In the “Digital Villages” project, Fraunhofer IESE demonstrates how digitalization opens up new opportunities for rural areas. The project was launched in summer 2015 with the aim of developing a digital ecosystem for rural areas in Rhineland-Palatinate. Since then, digital services in the areas of communication, local supply, mobility, and municipal administration have been created, which are networked with each other via a central platform. The project focuses on villages and rural municipalities and wants to investigate the challenges of modern life in rural areas in terms of digitalization.

In the video, we describe our ideas and applications.

The transition to the digital world has been going on for a long time already, and now it is happening in our rural areas as well. With the help of the Digital Villages, everyone has their digital village in their pocket and thereby fast access to our digital services in the area. [in German]