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The emphasis on the development of the use of ICT and digitization has on the territory of the European Union been linked from the very beginning with the effort to support economic development and the competitiveness of the European economy. The effort to enable the so-called fourth industrial revolution to take place, the introduction of the concept of Industry 4.0 and the adoption of A Digital Single Market Strategy for Europe clearly followed this goal. However, with the support of connectivity and the building of high-speed Internet connections even outside the main centers of economic activity, there was a shift in this regard. The concept of digital economy began to acquire a much broader meaning and, for example, in the strategic document Digital Economy and Society the concept of digital economy is grasped an umbrella category. It relates to effects of digitalization in the area of economic activity in the true sense but also in social life in a relatively broad sense. Digitization thus makes it possible also to solve traditional problems of peripheral areas, when it is true that thanks to the use of digital technologies it is possible to reach a state where a specific place where a specific service is provided will not negatively affect its quality, or at least this influence will be relatively smaller than it currently is. In our article, we tried to show how digitization in peripheral areas can also fulfill this role.