The Ministry of Economy and Digital Transformation will design a scoreboard for each public body to assess their digitisation, and part of the funding from the national budget for these bodies will be made according to the digitisation score, Economy Minister Radu Miruta said on Tuesday, at the handover ceremony of his ministerial portfolio.
"We have among the best people in the world in information technology and, yet, Romania is lagging behind in the European Union in terms of digitisation. It's a challenge for me to change that. Some concrete steps that we thought of in the government agenda - and I want to thank my coalition colleagues for accepting - we will design a trans-ministerial scoreboard for each body to assess their digitisation. We need to know where we are. It was suggested in the government agenda and it was accepted that part of the funding from the national budget of these bodies should be related to the digitisation score. You can't just say that you want to digitise, you can't yell that you need money for it, when nothing about that can be seen. It will be a roadmap with moments when it is checked, it is checked whether these things have been respected or not," said Miruta.
He added that there will be support in terms of digital literacy for state employees.
"There is also a discussion about the digital literacy of some state employees - and there will be support there. Not everyone was born with monitors in front of them and it is legitimate to support them to try to face these new challenges. There will be a grace period of several months in which they will prepare, after which there will be no excuse."
In his opinion, the Romanian state "must speak the same language", which is why a single application of interaction with the Romanian state is needed.
"There are various applications in various entities of the Romanian state. You have to log in to 10 browsers to be able to solve a state problem. That does not mean digitisation; that means wasting digitisation money. Digitisation means: I, as a citizen, with a CNP, with an identity card, go to a single electronic room, from where I have access to the interaction with the bodies of the Romanian state."
t the same time, he added that in his term of office there will be rewards and penalties
"As for the activity I will have at this ministry, there was a first discussion this morning with all the directors from all the coordination directorates of this ministry. There are some clear objectives. One objective is that I will not accept that people from this ministry tell the business community in Romania that they no longer have time to do a task that they have pledged to do by a certain date. I keep hearing that there is a programme that has to happen until I don't know what date and it doesn't happen. That will no longer be an explanation with me as a minister here, it will be a responsibility on the part of the one who pledges it This is the Ministry of Economy, Digital Transformation, Entrepreneurship and Tourism, a fairly wide spectrum of activities."
In his opinion, trans-ministerial digitisation in Romania is "the tool with which many of the things frozen in the Romanian state can be relaxed."
"It is the instrument that sheds light on transparency on decisions that will change, it is the instrument of traceability of things in the Romanian government and it is the respect of the state towards the citizens. Too much has been said in Romania about digitisation and it has not been done. While so far there has been an explanation that there is no money, Romania is in a situation today quite competitive with other countries that do not have advanced digitisation, but unfortunately for Romania, there are not many. We have EUR 500 million in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), that is the somewhat electronic system through which the applications we were talking about can be carried out," said Miruta.
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