Smart Villages and Investments to Public Services and ICT Infrastructure: Case of the Czech Rural Development Program 2007–2013

Pělucha, Martin

Smart Villages and Investments to Public Services and ICT Infrastructure: Case of the Czech Rural Development Program 2007–2013

European Countryside

Volume 11 (2019): Issue 4 (December 2019)

By:

Martin Pělucha

Open Access

|Dec 2019

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