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The rural Catalan communities facing the Information and Knowledge Society new scenario, the case of ‘La Conca de Barberà’. ICT4RD @ricardespelt i2TIC | IN3 – UOC 18 | 07 | 2012

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The  rural  Catalan  communities  facing the Information and Knowledge Society new 

scenario, the case of ‘La Conca de Barberà’.  

ICT4RD@ricardespelt

i2TIC | IN3 – UOC 18 | 07 | 2012

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From rural life to virtual community?

ICT4RD | Ricard Espelt

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+ strength + expansion

ICT4RD | Ricard Espelt

From rural life to virtual community

Rheingold, R. (1993) “Virtual communities”, Reading MA: Addison-Wesley (p.5) 

Rheingold

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resilience

Bateman & Lyon

From rural life to virtual community

ICT4RD | Ricard Espelt

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Socializing forms+ 

Quick and direct interaction spaces

Feenberg&Bakardjieva

From rural life to virtual communityICT4RD | Ricard Espelt

Feenberg,A.&Bakardjieva,M. (2004). Virtual Community: No'Killer Implication. New Media&Society 

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Woolgar

From rural life to virtual community

New socializing forms+ 

Specifying reality and virtuality Woolgar, S. (2002) Sociedad virtual? Tecnología, "cibérbole", realidad. UOC Ed., Barcelona. 

ICT4RD | Ricard Espelt

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Preece

From rural life to virtual community

Interaction among community members thanks to technology platforms

Preece, J. (2000) Online Communities: Designing Usability, Supporting Sociability

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Porter

From rural life to virtual community

Integration between online and offline activity

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Porter, M. (2001) Strategy and the Internet Harvard Business Review, Vol.79. 

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Wellman

From rural life to virtual community

Getting over traditional geographic gaps

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Wellman, B.; Qaun-Haase, A.; Boase, J.; Chen, W. ;Hampton, K.; Isla de Díaz,I. & Miyata, K.(2003) The Social Affordances of the Internet for Networked Individualism. Journal of computer Mediated Communication , Vol. 8 (3). 

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Hine

From rural life to virtual community

ICT significance: Before its use vs. the moment of application

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Hine, C. (2002) Etnografía virtual (2000) Traducció Ed. UOC, 2004.

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Relation between producer and community consumers through launched product

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Product relations around offline and online consumer community

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Possible values in the relation between ITC and product 

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 (1)                                                                  (2)

TIC scheme to structure a producer community to be launched online (1)TIC scheme to structure an online consumer community (2)  

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3 out of 4 Using ICT 

ICT -  Scale of Use

Email (94%) 

Website (77%) 

Social Networks (46%)  

E-Commerce (20%) 

 

ICT4RD | Ricard EspeltConca de Barberà ICT4RD Results

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Website Languages

Catalan (96%) 

Spanish (78%) 

English (63%) 

French (7%) 

ICT4RD | Ricard EspeltConca de Barberà ICT4RD Results

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E-Commerce Use

before 2010 (43%) | after 2010 (57%) 

Reasons for E-commerce 

More Information about Product (70%) 

Enlarging Sales (45%) 

Increasing Reputation (35%) 

Customer Satisfaction (25%) 

ICT4RD | Ricard EspeltConca de Barberà ICT4RD Results

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ICT can increase consumers 

Yes (63%) | No (11%) | Don’t know  (26%) 

ICT and consumer collaboration help to explore 

new product lines or markets

Yes (37%) | No (32%) | Don’t know (31%)

ICT4RD | Ricard EspeltConca de Barberà ICT4RD Results

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ICT reduces marketing costs 

Yes (40%) | No (34%) | NS (26%) 

ICT changes marketing process

Yes (34%) | No (34%) | NS (32%) 

ICT improves innovation around the product 

Yes (43%) | No (26%) | NS (31%) 

 

ICT4RD | Ricard EspeltConca de Barberà ICT4RD Results

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Website improves product information Yes (85%) | No (8%) | NS (7%) 

Social networks improve product information Yes (75%) | No (25%) 

Presence on Social Networks Yes (49%) | No (51%) 

Social networks based on usageFacebook (40%) | Twitter (11%) | YouTube (6%) 

Interaction on Social NetworksYes (44%) | No (56%)

 

ICT4RD | Ricard EspeltConca de Barberà ICT4RD Results

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Findings Summary: 

• Horizontal participation processes. • Transition from email to social networking. • Embryonic stage. • Faster use by individual farmers than rural communities. • Intermediary role Leadership still on. • Competitive advantages for small producers in particular. (Flexibility and 

low cost). • Best examples - Adding producer family members. • More economic efforts in new media than traditional in ones. • New conception between rural and urban world: more proximity.• Beating geographical gaps. • Non Indicator Use. 

Conca de Barberà ICT4RD Results

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4 lines to explore: Health + Learning + Disintermediation + Cooperation

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Increasing people interest for the products they consume. (My Farm)

+ info

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Linking production and learning(Fresh Roots Urban Farm Society)

+ info

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Linking consumers and selers(Farmbook)

+ info

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Controling Business(The People’s Supermarket)

+ info

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More interesting concepts to evaluate:

• Social farming (l’Olivera / La Fageda)• More dialogue and less seduction (Outlook 2012 - Creafutur)

• Crowdmarketing / Crowdcreation – La Catània• Crowdcuration• Crowdbuying 

• Transition Towns Network • Open Source Ecology • JAK Medlemsbank / Coop57 

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