Digitalization Minister Sebastian Burduya announced on Friday that more than 200 IT applications used by public services in the Republic of Moldova will be provided free of charge to Romania based on a Memorandum signed between the two governments.

• “We have announced and are working on creating a joint digital space with the Republic of Moldova. I have praised our brothers from Prut a lot, but I have reasons. They have more than 200 public online services and are willing to make these services available for free based on the Memorandum between the two governments.
• I also had a bilateral meeting the other day in Oradea with Mr. Vice Prime Minister Yuriy Tsurkanu. The project is going well. We have provided a test environment for these programs from the Republic of Moldova, where they will be subjected to all the tests, all the strict requirements of the Romanian market in the public sector, as cyber security, in terms of scaling them to a much larger market, however, Romania in relation to the Republic of Moldova, and in the next 6 months we will also see the first benefits, the first IT solutions that we will be able to translate to the level of Romania”, This was announced by Minister Sebastian Burduja on Friday.

He stated this at the presentation of the balance sheet for the last 4 months at the Ministry of Statistics.

Burduja: The Republic of Moldova is light years ahead of Romania in terms of digitalization of the state

Last month, Sebastián Burduya said that the Republic of Moldova is “light years ahead” of Romania in terms of digitizing public institutions and that it has succeeded thanks to a World Bank program that has been implemented for 10 years.

The minister of digitization explained that he visited the Republic of Moldova to take the example of this country in terms of digitization.

• “I was in Chisinau for a month, a month and a half of my mandate, I signed a joint commission together with Deputy Prime Minister Yuriy Tsurkanu, an exceptional person, a real specialist and an unsurpassed professional. Through this joint commission, the Republic of Moldova will provide us with the solutions they have developed and which took 10 years, almost free of charge,” Burduža said.

When asked what exactly Moldovans do, Sebastián Burduya replied that almost any service can be accessed online.

• “First, they can do almost any government service online: register vehicles, pay taxes and fees, various petitions, responses, etc. When their ANAF accesses their data, they are notified via SMS, but can also be notified via WhatsApp, Telegram or other services that the government has accessed their data. We adopted this model and incorporated it into the Cloud Decree. To go back to give security and confidence to the Romanians that their data will be much better protected than now, when a public institution accesses their data, it is written in the order, there is a log, exactly the same as they and the Moldovans, an indelible log, in which I, as a citizen, will know as soon as the institution has access to the data, I will know when, why it did it and on what legal basis,” added Sebastian Bourduya.

However, few Moldovans have access to online services, Burduzha also noted.

“They succeeded thanks to a very well thought out program of the World Bank, with a handful of people and with the political will for continuity, with all the problems they had, with all the instability from one government to another for 10 years, they gave maximum importance to the digital transformation of the state and the results are noticeable. “Unfortunately, what is the problem in Moldova today, with a population of 2 million citizens, approximately 200,000 use these services,” Sebastian Burduža said.

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