Received:
2018-07-21 | Accepted:
2018-10-10 | Published:
2018-12-30
Title
Low-Low (LL) high human capital clusters in public administration employment - predictor for digital infrastructure public investment priority - Romania case study
Abstract
Disruptive innovations generated by digital technologies push the public services to digital transformation in order to become not only a problems solver for community, but a real social, economic and environmental development engine. With all significant progress, the use of e-Government services in Romania remains the lowest in the EU; high quality services are not available in a significant part of rural areas. The paper highlighted the spatial heterogeneities of the broadband infrastructure at level of NUTS – 5 expansion correlated to Low-Low (LL) high human capital clusters in public administration and marginalized rural areas. Using data from World Bank studies, provided in the ArcGis Cloud, from Romanian broadband investment prioritization and micro data provided by INS census, we developed a spatial cluster analysis by the means of ESDA method. In public administration the high human capital is clustered in a few innovative hubs which in the absence of a functional and interconnected national administration IT system makes difficult the public administration modernization, especially in the context of regional decentralization. At the county level is visible the pattern of center periphery, where the center is usually the county residence and the LL clusters are the frontier of the counties. Usually, at this frontier are located marginalized rural areas where are provided poor public services. As a recommendation, the future e-government development must be spatial harmonized with the high human capital in order to assure a valuable public service, everywhere, whether it is the smallest village or a big city, to reconnect the public to the state and the state to the public in an inclusive and intelligent manner.
Keywords
resilience, rural broadband, digital inclusion, digital public policies, human resources management
JEL classifications
C54
, M54
, O47
URI
http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/249
DOI
Pages
729-753
Funding
This work was supported by a grant from the Romanian Ministry of Research and Innovation, Program Nucleu - PN 18_42_0101/Contract 12N/16.03.2018. Această lucrare a fost realizată prin Programul-nucleu, derulat cu sprijinul MCI, proiect nr. PN 18_42_0101/Contract 12N/16.03.2018” The dynamics of the labor market in Romania. Adaptive resilience and flexibility / Dinamica pieței muncii în România. Reziliență adaptivă și flexibilitate, coordinator Dr.. Speranța Pîrciog.
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