Burduja: The Republic of Moldova is light years ahead of Romania regarding the digitization of the state
“Through this joint commission, the Republic of Moldova will not make available practically for free the solutions that they have developed and taken 10 years for,” said the Romanian Minister of Digitalization.
On June 16, 2020, in Chisinau, Sebastian Burduja said that the Republic of Moldova is “light years away” from Romania in the digital aspect of state institutions and that he achieved this through a program at the World Bank that was implemented in 10 years .
Asked what Moldovans do exactly, Sebastian Burduja stated that almost any service can be accessed online.
“First of all, they can do almost any public service online: vehicle registrations, paying taxes and fees, various petitions, responses and so on. When ANAF (Tax no.) they access their data, receive or notify via SMS, but they can also receive it via WhatsApp, Telegram or other services for the state has accessed their data. We took this model and put it in the Ordinance on the cloud. To return, to give Romanians the security and confidence that their data will be much better protected, than at present, when a state institution accesses their data, it is written in the ordinance, there is a journaling, exactly how they did. and the Moldovans, an indelible journaling in which I, as a citizen, will know the moment an institution accesses data, I will know when, why it did it and on what legal basis”, added Sebastian Burduja, quoted by Hotnews. ro.
However, still few Moldovans access online services. However, only approximately 200,000 citizens of the Republic of Moldova use these services.
“They carried out a program at the World Bank very well thought out, with a handful of people and with a 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 then you can see”, said Sebastian Burduja.