Development of Rural Territories in Latvia Implementing Telework

Via Latgalica: humanitāro zinātņu žurnāls 2013
Alise Vītola, Iveta Baltiņa, Liena Ādamsone, Ilze Judrupa, Maija Šenfelde

Population decline is taking place in rural areas in Latvia as well as in rural areas in Europe. There is a question of utmost importance - will people choose to live in the rural area doing remote work or ill they choose the job in the towns. Increased pace of population declining is forecasted in the event of steady decreasing working places and services. Growing service costs per inhabitant may nfluence lowering of accessibility of some services in the territory. Till nowadays measurements of elework potential have been made in the national and regional level. There is shortage of these easurements in different municipalities. The purpose of this article is to study the attitude of Latvian eople with regard to telework adoption in two municipalities: Limbazi and Balvi in Latvia.

Keywords
telework, rural development, regional develpment, ICT

Vītola, A., Baltiņa, I., Ādamsone, L., Judrupa, I., Šenfelde, M. Development of Rural Territories in Latvia Implementing Telework. Via Latgalica: humanitāro zinātņu žurnāls, 2013, Vol.5, pp.140-149. ISSN 1691-5569.

Publication language
Latvian (lv)