The Authority for the Digitalization of Romania (ADR) continues to expand partnerships with Romanian companies and civil society

The Romanian Digitalization Authority (ADR) continues to expand partnerships with Romanian companies and civil society in order to co-opt expertise from industry and society into the National Council for Digital Transformation (CNTD).

ADR has signed collaboration protocols for cooperation in the field of digital transformation with TRANS SPED and the Association of Certification Service Providers, the main objective of these protocols being to accelerate digitalization in public administration, but also in the private sector.

“We want to operationalize a debate laboratory that will lead us towards sustainable solutions, we cannot achieve the objectives assumed through the Digital Decade without wasting time except by working at the same table and permanently consulting with experts from the private, associative and academic environments. Through the signed protocols – and this process of cooperation with stakeholders will continue – we redefine and expand the working groups within the CNTD in order to cover all areas of digital transformation and integrate everything that emerging technologies mean”, declared the president of ADR, Dragoș Cristian Vlad.

Romania has set concrete digital objectives to achieve in 2030, as stipulated in the “Path to the Digital Decade” program. The digital transformation has been structured in four broad areas:

• Strengthening digital skills and digital education
• Secure and sustainable digital infrastructures
• Digital transformation of enterprises
• Digitalization of public services

“The major themes that we will address together with our partners to configure coherent legislative solutions that are in line with market requirements, but also in line with European objectives are Artificial Intelligence and Big Data, interoperability, electronic identity, digital skills and legislation related to the information society. Only together can the state and the private sector accelerate the digitalization process, and here the experience from the private and associative environment is essential,” said Alexandra Chivu, vice president of ADR and coordinator of CNTD.

The National Council for Digital Transformation is a participatory state-private-academic structure for achieving Romania’s digital transformation. CNTD has the role of facilitating the involvement of all interested actors — public institutions, representatives of profile companies, chambers of commerce and industry, social partners, non-governmental organizations of the business environment in the digital sector, academia, representatives of higher education institutions or research institutes active in the digital field — in the debate of proposals and measures aimed at contributing to the digital transformation of the Romanian economy and society, in line with European action directions.