• Agribusiness and Information Management
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.27-32
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• 2016

Digital divide commonly means the gap among diverse stakeholders, businesses, physical areas, and individual people in terms of opportunities, accessibilities, and usabilities (Acilar, 2011). Lee and Park (2011) and Barzilai-Nahon (2006) suggested that the digital divide issues should be considered as an important public issue because proper public response may enhance or reduce the information gaps by the digital divide. This study is a follow-up study of the study of Lee and Park. This study's main aim is to clarify the changes of the digital divide in the rural areas during five years and to find out meaningful factors to reduce the gaps between the rural area and urban area. To achieve the research aim, this study analyzes the public data by ITSTAT and previous studies on the digital divide. Also this study follows the system thinking approach to model the causal relationships among diverse factors on the digital divide. With the results, this study suggests that the factors to measure the digital divide should be re-designed including smartphone penetration and accessibilities. Especially, current digital divide scoring factors should be considered in the way of social welfare.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Rural Architecture
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.17-24
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• 2023

There are various issues in rural areas. There are population decline, aging, and the absence of jobs and amenities. The government continues to expand various projects for rural areas. Recently, the government is promoting smart village projects in farming and fishing villages. The purpose of smart village is safety, convenience, smartization, and productivity improvement. The purpose of this study is to investigate the project and implementation process of smart villages, and domestic and foreign cases. And it classifies smart villages and suggests implementation strategies. The conclusion is as follows. ①The smart village business focuses on safety, living convenience, facility smartization, and agriculture and fisheries. ②In overseas cases, the smart village project focuses on improving the residential environment of farming and fishing villages in the EU, the UK, and Germany. Japan focuses on improving energy and agricultural and fisheries productivity. ③It is recommended that the smart village business be subdivided and promoted as much as possible. And the project enhances synergy in cooperation with other government ministries. ④Smart services increase credibility through FGI for public officials and residents. ⑤The project is carried out in consideration of agricultural products, tourism festivals, natural environment, history and tradition.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.529-534
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• 2020

The development of civilization is in line with evolution of cities and transportation technology caused by industrialization. Up to now, a city has been developed owing to transportation cost reduction and needs for land utilization as a limited core business district. Continuous increase of urban population density has accompanied by lots of problems socioeconomically such as rise of land value, traffic congestion, gap between the rich and poor, air pollution, etc. Those issues are difficult to be solved in existing city ecosystem. However, a clue for solving the problems could be found in there. The design of Seoul mid-night bus route was from analysis of movement of people in the rural area by using ICT so that a city ecosystem should be firstly analyzed for solving rural issues. If the cause of those is found, big data platform construction is required to raise the life quality of citizen and the problems could be solved. Big data should be located in the middle of the platform connected with every element of city based on ICT for real-time collection, analysis and application. This paper addresses construction of big data platform and its application for sustainable smart city.