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Recent years have seen an increase in the public availability of various forms of municipal data, both in cities and in higher-level governments, in countries across the globe. Rural areas have been slower to engage with this developing technology. While several reasons have been proposed for this disparity, including a lack of municipal resources, a lack of interest, Internet accessibility issues, and more, the academic literature assessing this phenomenon remains thin. In this poster, we outline the literature that is available on this topic from across several countries. We also discuss a planned research project to survey municipal actors in order to understand how and why Ontario's rural communities are or are not engaging with newer data technologies. |
