Village renewal has played a very important role in Poland, revitalizing the countryside in many dimensions: social, cultural and economic. It seems that the potential of this concept is being exhausted, and not only because the idea of ​​"village renewal" is being used up, but rather because of the disappearance of rurality itself in the traditional formula. A new rurality is being created, and smart villages can play a positive role in this process of fuller release of the potential of rural areas. New communication technologies, the Internet, and digitalization are a chance for a renaissance of rurality in an innovative form.