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Diaspora official Ligor: This is a time when partnership should underpin relating with overseas Roma

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Minister-delegate for Romanians Abroad Maria Ligor told a workshop on Thursday on reinvented Diaspora in the digital era that state officials have to undertake a change in paradigm as far as the relationship with the Romanian nationals abroad is concerned, and partnership should be that change.

"We are undergoing changes, and we should acknowledge that we have to undertake a change in paradigm in our relationship with our Diaspora. (...) We have to make this switch from a previous paradigm that entailed us providing assistance (...) through our overseas offices, to another paradigm, of partnership. (...)This is a time when partnership should underpin relating with overseas Romanians. It has to start from respect for the competence these Romanians have, for their capability of contributing and their wish to contribute," said Ligor.

In her opinion, the shared agenda of citizens and officials should define the real interests and concerns of those living outside Romania, and to this end efforts are being deployed to establish a team in charge with initiatives.

"We are working on a series of initiatives and projects that we want to bring to maturity by the end of the current year. The biggest challenge facing us is resetting the team of our department. (...) We want to change procedures and to put simplification front and centre in this exercise," added Ligor.

In her turn, presidential adviser on Diaspora affairs with Romania's Presidential Administration Sandra Pralong praised the partnership vision in the relationship between the State and Diaspora as proof of democratic maturity.

"A partnership between a democratic state and the citizens is reflective of a democracy in which partner citizens dictate their needs, and not the other way around," said Pralong.

She added that the challenge in this demarche is finding digital tools to create communities.

Moderating the workshop was Associate Professor in Diplomatic Studies at Oxford University Corneliu Bjola.

The workshop included speeches delivered by officials of diplomatic missions to Romania who mentioned good practices, teaching staff and IT project leaders who want to bring together citizens and software experts.

Dan Nechita, adviser to Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos, talked about how the GovIT project could bring together Romanians from all over the world.

"The fact that we are connecting increasingly better and we want digitisation to get us closer to 3 million Romanians overseas is not just a gladdening sign, but also a priority with us for the months to come and, hopefully, for the years ahead," said Nechita.

In the first part of the workshop, a presentation was made of the votdiaspora.ro website designed to offer Romanians abroad information about the electoral process, as well as of the RomBel online platform serving the Romanian community of Belgium, according to Agerpres.

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