Specific Objectives

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Key issues

• equity issues, especially in rural areas
• Internet economy slow to emerge in Romania
• low business spending on RD products and
  services
• scarce resources for improving governmental act
  and processes
• - low general international competitiveness of
  Romanian companies

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Key causes

• Inappropriate infrastructure for enabling access
  to information and knowledge
• Old fashion manner of performing educational
  activities
• Limited e-government specialized services offered
  both to citizens and business
• Insufficient business investments in improving
  management, marketing and networking skills and
  in acquiring advanced technology products
• Reluctancy to change, risk adversity and lack of
  awareness of knowledge-based activities, benefits
  and positive effects

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Objective of the intervention

• Mission increased participation of
  Knowledge-disadvantaged communities to
  Knowledge-based society and economy
• by
• providing access to knowledge and digital
  literacy to citizens and business and reducing
  the ITC educational discrepancies through
• Local Communities e-Networks (LCENs)
• Institutions and target groups
• Local administrations - civil servants
• Schools teachers, pupils, administrative staff
• Libraries- librarians, users
• SMEs - Local entrepreneurs
• General public rural and small urban
  inhabitants

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Description of the Proposed Intervention

• Development of 300 knowledge resource centers .
  These e-Networks will connect the main social,
  economic and educational entities of the local
  communities city hall, school, library, house
  of culture (Public Access Point to Information)
  to the national and international information and
  business e-networks. 50 mil USD
• Endowment of rural and small urban school with
  modern educational learning system assisted by
  computer, development of pedagogical procedures
  using ITC, improving school curricula 10 mil
  USD
• Development of a system for on-line notifications
  and authorizations of local businesses (local
  document management systems) 4 mil USD
• Developing an integrated network for offering
  communitaire public services through electronic
  means at local level 10 mil USD
• Promoting the Portal for promotion of e-commerce
  and business networking (eStore) 5 mil USD
• Organizing and promoting Grant Facility Programme
  dedicated to SMEs for adopting innovative
  solutions in order to enhancing competitiveness
  20 mil USD
• How much might they cost?

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Institutions involved

• World Bank
• Ministry of Communications and Information
  Technology
• Ministry of Administration and Internal Affaires
• Ministry of Education and Research
• National Agency for Small and Medium-sized
  Enterprises and Cooperation
• Ministry of Culture and Religious Affaires
• Associations of local communities

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Results Indicators

• 40 of people in targeted communities have used
  LCeNs as a tool for education, business or public
  administration and are satisfied with the results
• In approximately 300 disadvantaged communities,
  LCeNs are operating satisfactorily towards a
  sustainable future in line with their business
  plans
• 75 of targeted teachers are using their new
  skills in the classroom
• 75 of people in targeted communities, who are
  willing, are able to acquire basic digital
  literacy skills
• 40 of target beneficiaries (citizens and
  business) conducting transactions with the
  government online with 60 completing their
  transactions with the agreed performance
  standards
• 500 co-financed successful projects (single
  applicants or consortiums) conducting to
  improving SMEs performance and competitiveness by
  introducing innovative and modern technologies
• 10.000 SMEs connected in networks aiming at
  leveraging their resources for achieving valuable
  capabilities

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Background Information

• Name of Country ROMANIA
• Delegation Representatives
• Diana Voicu KE PMU Director Ministry of
  Communications and IT
• Iulian Manea KE PMU Assistant Director
• Viorel Cristea Director Ministry of
  Administration and Interiors
• Lucian Ciolan Ministers counselor Ministry
  of Education and Reserch
• Andi Lazescu President eRomania Gateway
  Association
• Marcel Duhaneanu Director Assebus Organization
• Coordinates
• diana.voicu_at_mcti.ro 40.21.4001701