RuralNetUK was a rural regeneration charity setup to promote a living and working countryside and and to find new and effective ways to help these communities improve and strengthen their local economies.

With local partners, it supported projects which put ideas into practice at the local rural level using specialist skills in Information, Communications and Collaboration Technologies (ICCTs) for their appropriate use for rural areas.

It was equally at home in the business, public, community and voluntary sectors. It worked at local, sub-regional, regional, national and European levels.

Our aim is now to take this project to an international level and promote rural areas and areas that may not be rural themselves but rely on rural areas to promote their economies.

We will start to explore the Americas, Africa and other continents to explore what can be done in these areas.

Canada and the US have many large cities but also rely heavily on the rural areas when it comes to agriculture and feeding the vast population in North America, and with Canada being the 2nd largest country in the world, by land mass, but with a population of less than 35 million, it has many rural areas to explore.