Despite the unprecedented incorporation of information and
communications tools (ICTs) by marginalized communities worldwide,
there is still a clear urban/non-urban access (and effective use)
gap in ICT access across the world. This gap turns into a crucial
infrastructure need as attention is turned to pressing issues faced
by cities. The internet access gap is identifiable not only in the
Global South-perceived as peripheral-but also in the Global
North-regarded as advanced and the motor of technological
development. This suggests the emergence and endurance of
peripheries based on the level of techno-social development.
Locally, this process accords with existing socio-spatial practices
and with the ways ICTs are being introduced in the everyday. This
book explores the recursive interaction between socio-spatial
practices and the late introduction of the internet in three
marginalized rurban communities in Brazil and in the UK. It brings
to the fore challenges that cross North-South divides to propose an
open theory of the connected rurban as a framework that addresses
and accommodates the specificities of these communities in the
first two decades of the twentieth-first century.
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