The RURALTECH project assumes that widening the use of the new technologies in the rural areas of the Atlantic Area is a strategic necessity of the first importance for promoting development which is territorially balanced among urban and rural areas of the Atlantic Area. RURALTECH seeks to create a European working network responsible for analysing the actual and potential demand for the NTIC in the rural zones considered by the project, and for promoting the demand for and the supply of the new technologies by promoting their use - by means of demonstration pilot schemes, training and activities of popularisation.