Remote rural home based businesses and digital inequalities : understanding needs and expectations in a digitally underserved community

This paper reports research supported by an award made by the RCUK Digital Economy programme to the dot.rural Digital Economy Hub, award reference EP.G066051/1. The authors thank Caitlin Cottrill for producing the map presented in Figure 1 and acknowledge the contributions to the wider Rural PAWS project made by Hassan Hamdoun, Althaff Mohideen and, in particular, John Farrington and Gorry Fairhurst. Thanks are also offered to Mags Currie and Stephanie Doebler and all those who offered comments on an earlier draft of the paper at the 2017 meeting of the Trans-Atlantic Rural Research Network and to the three anonymous reviewers whose constructive comments improved the final version of the paper.Peer reviewedPublisher PD