Our project is aimed at finding sustainable alternatives to jointly deploy infrastructure for telecommunications and electric energy at very small LATAM rural communities that are more than 5 km away from the nearest connected population, and have ~500 local residents. The essential hypothesis behind the project is that implementing Smart Small Rural Communities, by taking advantage of emerging technology concepts and innovative business models, will allow capturing an economic value that a few years ago was impossible. The project scope includes a number of visits to carefully selected small rural communities in different parts of Mexico, and collaboration with different Mexican organizations that are related to such communities (specifically in the fields of electric photovoltaic generation, agriculture, mining, and telecommunications services). Our presentation will cover: a global analysis of rural communities in México, describing the methodology and algorithms developed so far; some important learnings achieved after several visits to rural communities; our current proposal to achieve technical and financial sustainability; preliminary business models with Mexican characteristic figures; and our current proposal for a pilot test though the implementation of a smart small rural community lab.