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    The demand of Public Administration management’s staff competences in the future
    (University of Latvia, 2019) Lakstigala, Ineta; Balina, Signe
    The development of the competences of the staff of the Latvian Public Administration has been drawing more and more attention. The aim of the development of the human resources is a professional, motivated, advanced and honest staff of the Public Administration. It means that it is necessary to evaluate the competences of the staff in order to upgrade them and understand what is in demand nowadays. Improved personal and professional competences are regularly needed to improve the quality, efficiency, development of creative thinking, knowledge and adaptation to the trends and demands of the 21 st century. It is therefore important to understand whether employees are in line with a specialised profession in order to improve and maintain the skills of employees, who have played an important role in the work process as a result of the rapid development of technology today. It is therefore important to find out what competencies will become an integral part of human work. The aim of the research is to understand, what kind of competences in the future are going to be in demand for Public Administration staff. The methods used in the research work are going to be the analysis of the documents and data analysis. The results of the research are going to be used in practice by evaluating and upgrading the competences of the Public Administration staff.
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    Digital competence rating and economic development in the EU
    (University of Latvia, 2019) Rozite, Kristine; Balina, Signe; Freimane, Rita
    Diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICT) in different areas has accelerated the growth of the global economy. It has large impact to the business by transforming processes, creating new services, industries. ICT development requires new technologies and new approaches to innovate and integrate. The European Commission stated: "The Internet and digital technologies are transforming the lives we lead, the way we work – as individuals, in business, and in our communities as they become more integrated across all sectors of our economy and society". The access to high-speed digital infrastructures, skills of the effective usage of highly developed digital technologies represents the prerequisite productivity and the social inclusion in the digital economy. Development of new technologies and applications demands respective skills and competences of the citizens. That also leads to problems related to measurement of the level of digitization of the economy. There are several institutions that evaluate digital competences. The Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI), developed by the European Commission, is a composite index that summarises relevant indicators on Europe’s digital performance and tracks the evolution of EU member states in digital competitiveness. The aim of the paper is an empirical verification of the assumption that ICT factors (measured by DESI components) affect national economic development. This study uses statistical and econometrical methods to examine the relationship between ICT factors, digital competence indicators and economic development in the EU through statistical evidence. A panel data analysis confirmed significant linkage between ICT factors (infrastructure, competence, investment and trade size) and economic growth in the EU countries. Taking into consideration the digitalization trends, could be stated that there is still a huge potential for progress and growth.
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    Electronic procurement system – instrument for implementing green public procurement: analysis of the Latvia’s expierence
    (University of Latvia, 2019) Pelsa, Inese; Balina, Signe
    Green public procurement (GPP) is a mean of saving up finances for public institutions, especially taking into consideration not only procurement price but also total expenses of the contract lifecycle. In Latvia the first Electronic Procurement System (EPS) was established in 2005 and was the first such procurement system in the Baltic States. Initially, it only acted as an e-Procurement system in which public institutions can purchase standard goods and services. This paper analyzes the success of the implementation methodology for evaluating e-Procurement in public procurement. The aim of the paper is to explore the proportion of applied GPP of total procurement in EPS in Latvia in the period from 2015 to 2017, and to analyze how the aims of the proportion of GPP are achieved. In order to investigate the share of GPPs in the EPS, data on purchases made by EPS was collected and analyzed. An analysis was made of the percentage of GPP and the most important groups for which GPP was appropriate, and it was assessed whether the objectives set by the GPP have been achieved. GPP proportion in procurement made within the EPS in 2015 was 9%, 2016 - 8%, but in 2017 - 19.10%, which means that GPP a substantial increase. As the calculations made in the study prove a complete transition to e-Procurement will reduce both administrative costs and significant savings for the state budget in the Latvia.
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    Learning Content Development methodology for Mobile Devices
    (Elsevier, 2015) Paulins, Nauris; Balina, Signe; Arhipova, Irina
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    Methodological perspective of evaluation of Green public procurement
    (University of Latvia, 2020) Pelsa, Inese; Balina, Signe
    Every year the European Union (EU) Member States collectively spend around 14% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on public procurement. In Latvia, public procurement accounts for 17% of GDP. The review of the new public procurement directives and their transposition process in Latvia plans to show new opportunities for green public procurement (GPP) application: the contracting authority will be able to reject, for example, an abnormally low bid, include environmental management system requirements in the selection criteria, use life cycle costing criteria, etc. GPP is the systematic integration of environmental criteria into all activities related to the procurement of goods or services, from the identification of needs, the development of appropriate specifications and evaluation procedures, to the monitoring of the results achieved. Solutions for the promotion of GPP proposed by the new Public procurement Law project and the Cabinet of Ministers' draft regulation "Requirements and Application of Green Public Procurement" will also be analyzed. The aim of the work is to explore the application of GPP to improve the quality of GPP.