The Digital Government Review of Romania was prepared by the OECD Directorate for Public Governance (GOV), under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski.
The Review was produced by the OECD Open and Innovative Government Division in GOV, under the direction of Carlos Santiso, Head of the Open and Innovative Government Division, and supervision of Barbara-Chiara Ubaldi, Head of the Digital Government and Data Unit.
Chapters 1 was written by Seong Ju Park, Chapter 2 was written by Felipe González-Zapata, Chapter 3 was written by Cecilia Emilsson, and Chapter 4 was written by Seong Ju Park and Felipe González-Zapata, Policy Analysts in the Open and Innovative Government Division. All chapters benefitted from the strategic orientation and revisions of Barbara-Chiara Ubaldi. Felipe González-Zapata was the lead co-ordinator of the Review. Lena Bodeit, Junior Policy Analyst in the Global Relations and Co-operation Directorate (GRC) provided comments to this report. Andrea Uhrhammer (GOV) provided editorial assistance for the finalisation of the manuscript.
The OECD Secretariat would like to thank the two peer reviewers that participated in this Review, who shared their extensive country-based knowledge and experience during the process, namely:
Mr Olivier Joviado, Project Manager, Interministerial Digital Directorate (DINUM), France
Mr Fabrizio Marchese, Scientific-Technological Officer, Department for Digital Transformation, Italy
This Review would not have been possible without the leadership and invaluable contribution of the Authority for the Digitalization of Romania, in particular its President, Dragoș–Cristian Vlad; Monica Chiffa, Head of International Relations; and Silviu Gorunescu, Advisor; as well as the General Secretariat of the Government, in particular Larisa Barac, Advisor on Open Government. The OECD Secretariat would like to acknowledge the contribution of all public officials from Romania that participated in the OECD survey, joined the fact-finding mission, and contributed to the online workshops. The Secretariat is also grateful for their comments and feedback provided to this report prior its finalisation and publication.
The present Digital Government Review was conducted in the framework of the project “Capacity building in the field of public governance - a co-ordinated approach of the Centre of the Government of Romania” which benefits from a grant in the amount of EUR 3 020 000, offered by Norway within the Programme “Local development, poverty reduction and increasing the inclusion of Roma”, financed by the EEA and Norwegian Grants 2014-2021 and administered by the Romanian Social Development Fund. More information about the project and about the Programme “Local development, poverty reduction and increasing the inclusion of Roma” can be found on the websites: www.frds.ro and www.eeagrants.ro.