The potential of rural districts supported by e-governance tools: the digital hamlets

E-participation in decision making is gaining ground. The task is to test the opportunities coming from a mix of e-participation
and proactive decision support tools, especially in low density residential areas affected by structural limitations. Far from the
technology-based smart city paradigm, this bottom-up approach is useful since it provides administrations with a immediate and
free use of a pool of ideas and it can support to better and cheaply organize a number of basic services.