Abstract

Digital rural development aims to encourage rural development through technology-based or digital platforms.  This research was conducted descriptively based on SCOPUS.COM data, which obtained 249 documents with the title digital rural for the last five years. The United States has the most research articles on digital villages, followed by the United Kingdom, Australia, and India. The University of Aberdeen (U.K.) has the most research articles on the digital villages, followed by the University of the West of England (U.K.) and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (China). The field of social studies is the favorite research article on digital villages, followed by computer science and engineering. The U.K. Research and Innovation have the most research funding sponsors in the digital village, followed by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (U.K.) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. So digital rural development research growing fast nowadays.

Keywords

Digital rural development, digital platforms, technology-based, social studies, computer science