20.500.12556/RUL-128751 Smart Villages comprehensive review of initiatives and practices Over recent decades, people’s (rural and urban) communities are facing numerous social and economic changes and challenges. Some of those challenges have been increasingly addressed through the lenses of technological developments and digitalization. In this paper, we have made a review of already existing practices while focusing on the existing implementations of the Smart Village concept and the importance of digital transformation for rural areas. We give special attention to EU policies that we are using as an already existing framework for understanding our own forthcoming examples. We have shown the parallels between the findings and insights from different regions and made an evaluation of presented practices. Our main argument stems from our own previous experiences and experiences of other research approaches, and is grounded on the argument that rural areas are not uniform, and that smart rural development has to be applied in combination with place-based approach. We present the cases of Slovenian pilot practices and support our argument by proposing the FabVillage concept. Smart Villages smart development sustainabilty digitalization ICT pametne vasi pametni razvoj trajnost digitalizacija IKT true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2021-07-27 13:15:22 2021-07-27 13:15:23 2022-09-07 04:16:58 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2018 0 0 14 str. iss. 7, art. 2559 Vol. 10 2018 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2018-07-21 004 2071-1050 10.3390/su10072559 12109140 RAZ_Zavratnik_Veronika_2018.pdf RAZ_Zavratnik_Veronika_2018.pdf 1 88982CF56380C7ECA3F1AAEF49FC1847 069f33f59978faa180292014343ef3cb232090e9c9afe58fd71df0e833e45a51 85843c98-eed0-11eb-a523-00155dcfd717 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=145606 http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/10/7/2559 1 c4a5c272-eecb-11eb-a523-00155dcfd717 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=145601 Fakulteta za elektrotehniko 0 0 0