Low-Low (LL) high human capital clusters in public administration employment - predictor for digital infrastructure public investment priority - Romania case study

Cristina Lincaru, Speranta Pîrciog (), Adriana Grigorescu () and Gabriela Tudose ()
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Speranta Pîrciog: National Scientific Research Institute for Labour and Social Protection, Romania
Gabriela Tudose: National Scientific Research Institute for Labour and Social Protection, Romania

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, 2018, vol. 6, issue 2, 729-753

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 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C54 M54 O47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.9770/jesi.2018.6.2(18)

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