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Liepaja is one of the 112 Pioneer cities in the EU which has joined the challenge of climate-neutral cities. One way to be more climate-neutral is to reduce the consumption of pollution and resources in the municipality. Digitization of internal and external municipal services opens the way in this direction. In this study, the authors focus on digitizing the municipality's internal processes and employees' motivation to change their habits and assessing resourcesaving opportunities. \nThe study aims to assess the readiness of municipal employees and detect weak points for the transition to complete internal process digitization to reduce the environmental impact and resource consumption. \nThe study uses surveys and data statistical processing methods with SPSS. \nAs a result of the study, proposals have been developed to improve employees' digital skills to increase municipal green competitiveness.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.5593\/sgem2023\/5.1\/s20.18","type":"proceedings-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,10,12]],"date-time":"2023-10-12T06:09:00Z","timestamp":1697090940000},"page":"145-152","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["GREEN COMPETITIVENESS AND DIGITIZATION IN LATVIA MUNICIPALITIES"],"prefix":"10.5593","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"Lilita","family":"Abele","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies \/ Liepaja University, Circular Economy Center","place":["Latvia"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Baiba","family":"Rivza","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies","place":["Latvia"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Peteris","family":"Rivza","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies","place":["Latvia"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Karlis","family":"Markus","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies","place":["Latvia"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"3602","reference":[{"key":"ref=1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"[1] Dameri, R. 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