Beschreibung:
The article deals with the first phase of a project supported by the European Commission that shall help to find socially and culturally adapted methods for implementing local electronic networks. The main ambition was to replace the common “technological push” by a “social pull”. By a comparative research including four small towns in Spain, France and Germany it could be shown how local economic, social, cultural and geographic structures influences expectations or even needs that people express in the face of new information and communication technologies (NICT). As being very distinct from one another the Spanish and the German case of Amedo and Weinstadt are presented in more detail.