the low-income group, despite accelerating fastest, reached only 4,842. This digital economy that is roughly 15 times greater, revealing a clear gap in both technical capacity and the foundation for digital trust. Beyond the statistics, these disparities have direct implications for how rural communities experience and benefit from digitalization. In economies where high-speed connectivity, secure data infrastructure and affordable devices are widely available, rural residents can more easily access sophisticated services such as e-commerce, digital finance, and precision agriculture tools. Where such infrastructure is lacking or prohibitively expensive, information services, limiting its transformative potential. The quality and security incidents can discourage adoption, particularly among risk-averse smallholders who cannot afford losses or service failures. accidental; they are a direct reflection of divergent domestic policy priorities. An strategic distinction between economy groups.