This report focuses on two issues: access to information and communications technologies (ICTs) in Romania, and the legal and policy context shaping ICT access. Building on the GISWatch 2007 country report conclusions,1 we found these issues the most pressing, and therefore the most useful to...

The report presents the regional context for Romania’s ICT policy-making process, highlighting the positive role played by EU accession criteria. We also discuss ICT-based social inclusion policies and programmes concerning the three pillars of strategic ICT use: access, skills and...

The aim of this paper is to analyze organizing issues raised by developing debate activities for youth. A focus on educational debate is aimed at highlighting the benefits of teaching argumentation and rhetoric skills in an interactive manner. In fact, educational debate is one of the most...

The relationship between information and communications technologies (ICTs) and the environment is a new issue that is emerging in international and European Union forums as a response to growing concern about climate change. Meanwhile, in Romanian public discourse, debates on information...

As part of the preliminary research project initiated by the Association for Progressive Communications in 2009, the Region, Environment, Culture Research Group, acting as a taskforce of the StrawberryNet Foundation in this project, has completed a policy scan, developed a research agenda and...

European Union membership since 1 January 2007 has shaped Romanian regulatory practices concerning access to online information. A process of aligning to EU legislation (2000-2007) catalyzed country efforts to create a more transparent policy environment for information and communications...

Traditional leadership styles, based on tight supervision and rigid rules, fit only traditional organizational structures. The article explores new challenges Romanian leaders have to face in a dynamic and globalized work environment: where networks overrule hierarchies, work processes and...

With the information and communications technology (ICT) sector accounting for 6% of the Romanian GDP in 2016, the country ranks fourth among 28 European Union (EU) countries. However, according to the European Commission's annual Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI), Romania ranks among the...

Information and communications technologies (ICTs) are at the heart of innovation and economic in Romania and the only industry without job losses since 2008, despite the economic crisis. to the latest national regulatory authority report, the broadband penetration rate had reached 17.12% of...