This paper aims to identify how rural digitalization influences social innovation in the context of the Global South. Using qualitative research methods, we examine two cases of digitalization in rural areas in Indonesia, which represent differing types of digital technologies and economic activities. Our findings show that the use of digital technologies in livelihood strategies stimulates new social and institutional practices in rural areas. As digital technologies that are adopted differ in both cases, the complexity of adoption and the digital literacy and skills required also vary. Such a complexity generates challenges and hardships for the community, but at the same time, it provides room for expedited learning and urges them to fight the challenges collectively. This nurtures reflexivity between agents and stimulates the legitimation of new practices regarding the adoption of digital technologies and their ability to solve social problems. Cultural values clearly play an essential role in this process. Openness and courage to change facilitate agents to build legitimacy, whereas strong cultural values tend to maintain existing practices in a community.

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农村地区的数字化和社会创新：印度尼西亚的案例研究*

本文旨在确定农村数字化如何影响全球南方背景下的社会创新。使用定性研究方法，我们研究了印度尼西亚农村地区的两个数字化案例，它们代表了不同类型的数字技术和经济活动。我们的研究结果表明，在生计战略中使用数字技术会刺激农村地区的新社会和制度实践。由于两种情况下采用的数字技术不同，采用的复杂性以及所需的数字素养和技能也各不相同。这种复杂性给社区带来了挑战和困难，但同时也为快速学习提供了空间，并敦促他们共同应对挑战。这培养了代理人之间的反思性，并激发了有关采用数字技术及其解决社会问题能力的新实践的合法性。文化价值观显然在这一过程中发挥着重要作用。变革的开放性和勇气有助于代理人建立合法性，而强大的文化价值观往往会维持社区中的现有做法。