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Andreea STOICIUThe coordinator of the sub-group on“eGovernment for Sustainable Development”
eGovernment for Sustainable Development subgroupFirst annual report
The subgroup “was born” on the 12th of May 2010
First year objectives:
Increasing national and international cooperation and public interest in the usage of electronic public services
Promoting the implementation of green IT and acknowledgement of e-Governance as key factor in sustainable development
The usage of new technologies as instruments for accomplishing our objectives
What we have accomplished (the activities):
Setting up of an effective institutional structure for more efficient actions -
IMDD
Developing Partnerships
Creating www.egovdev.ro – our webpage
Researching the status and the trends of e-Government for sustainable
development
Conducting an international survey
Organizing the high-level workshop “The role of electronic governance for
sustainable development”
1. The institutional structure and coordinator in Romania – IMDD:
Early last year we completed setting up the
Institute of Management and Sustainable Development (IMDD)
as the local coordinator of C7- e-Government for sustainable
development
subgroup.
A team of professionals has been gathered up in order to develop the
subgroup programs and projects, both locally and internationally.
2. Partnerships:
We developed Partnerships with key players from different sectors: public, private, NGOs,universities, both Romanian and regional, in order to promote our activity.
IMDD website: www.imdd.ro
You can find us on Facebook:
4. Researching the status and the trends of e-Government for sustainable development:
One crucial factor for the success of such activities is efficient
cooperation of all relevant key players in e-Government and sustainable
development fields, both locally and internationally.
So we have initiated a cooperation project between public and
private key players in order to determinate the needs and expectations
regarding the implementation of intelligent applications in public
administration sector and e-Services in terms of sustainable
development.
5. About the surveyPurpose:
To evaluate the present perception upon the necessity and the recognition of the sustainable development
To measure the level of the implementation and the usage of the electronic public services, the way it is perceived by the citizens, private sector and public administration
To evaluate the expectations on interconnectivity and interoperability of electronic systems, national and international cooperation, governance transparency and acknowledgement of sustainable development principles
About the survey:
22 April – 4 May 201125 questionson-linebilingual: English and Romanian674 respondentssegmentation:
- individuals
- NGOs
- SMEs
- large enterprises
- local and central public authorities
- education and research institutes
The interdependence between key players, the funding/resources and the users expectations
CITIZENSENTERPRISE
S
Decreasing resistance to change
Transparent usage of
public funds
Stable legislative framework
Digital community
Interoperability and
connectivity
Effective e-services
A coherent strategy based on sustainable
development principles
The usage of RDI results
Electronic systems’ security
ADMINISTRATION
The elimination of the
resistance to change
Transparent usage of public
funds
Stable legislative framework
The Foundation – Key player: Public Administration
The estimated annual percentage of the
budget invested by the public administration in electronic services
Ranking of the sustainable
development elements
The most important barriers in
implementing sustainable
development policies
Do you find important a national and international fit in sustainable development
policies and strategies?
Expectations:
48
30
22
Do you support „digital community” kind of initiatives (using IT solutions in C2G/B2G)?
Rank the next relevant features of
sustainable development as
perceived by public authorities
Are you aware of some electronic public services available regionally?
Do you consider that a sustainable development strategy is necessary?
Can you identify actual sustainable development specific measures in Local
Public Authorities/Central Public Authorities activity?
Do you consider these measures had an important medium / long
term impact ?
Are you satisfied with the sustainable development specific measures implemented by public
organizations?
Involvement of Public Institutions
6731
42 54
Rank the relevant features of sustainable development as perceived by the citizen
Rank the positive results of intense usage of electronic public
services
The relationship between E-Government and sustainable development
6. High- level roundtable "The role of e-Governance for sustainable development"
Debate on the following topics:
Analysis of survey’s results
Methods to increase transparency in public administration by
using new technologies
Ensuring security of electronic systems
Education and lifelong e-learning solutions
Innovative e-services
About the roundtable:
The event brought together specialists from public, private, academic and non-governmental sectors.
Among them, we mention here:
•Personal adviser of the Romanian Prime Minister - Mrs. Andreea Paul Vass•Deputy in the Romanian Parliament, member of the Committee for IT&C -Mr. Varujan Pambuccian•Director of The Romanian National Institute for Research & Development in Informatics - Mrs. Prof. PhD. Eng. Doina Banciu •Former Minister of Finance - Mr. Ionut Popescu •Marketing and Strategy Director at Ericsson - Mr. Razvan Pirvu•President of ANISP - Mr. Gheorghe Serban•Ph.D Associate Professor at the National Academy of Information “Mihai Viteazul” - Mr. Prof. Dumitru Zamfir•President of the Institute for Political Research - Mr. Marius Vladu.
CONCLUSIONS:
The results pointed to the correlation and dependence between eGovernment and sustainable development
There is a strong need to interconnect isolated electronic systems, at both local, regional and international level, in order to deliver integrated e-services
Key "resources" (such as databases) have to be shared, or at least, it has to be increased the level of access granted, in order to enable international cooperation on various issues
Security is a major issue, able to either attract or limit the interest of users in e-services, since e-services use personal and private data and information
Resistance to change instead of economic crisis proved to be the major barrier for e-services' development
E-services are seen as a solution for cost cutting and increasing the quality of life
WSIS implementation mechanism:
•An effective set of tools
•Due to the time frame, it may be important to review and adapt the set of mechanisms in order to fit the actual conditions and trends
•Increased usage of web 2.0 mechanisms would be helpful
•The instruments have to address all kind of stakeholders; currently it may be a focus on decision makers while the other layers are less involved
•Since it is a long-term approach, related actions presenting and promoting the milestones, expectations and benefits, could be helpful
•Regional and sectorial events, in addition to global events could leverage the effectiveness in eGovernment and refocus on sustainable development, instead of focusing only on short and mid-term projects
NEXT STEPS:
• Efficient exchange of best practices in public administration systems – we already have created on WWW.EGOVDEV.RO a Best Practice exchange “place”
• A set of regional and sectorial analysis and events
• Promoting reduction of bureaucracy and vulnerability of the system
• Implementing specific e-services, as tools for sustainable development
