| Summary: | Although over recent years Romania has made significant improvements in the development and extension of broadband networks, according to the European statistics (European Commission, 2011; Colclough et al., 2010), Romania still occupies unwanted last place in the level of Internet use by population (up to 35%) and eGovernment use (less than 10%). Romania finds itself below the EU level in relation to the supply of on-line services for citizens (50%) and for companies (75%). Online sophistication of public services reaches 73% of which sophistication for business services stands at 89%, compared to 94% for the EU 27 plus Croatia, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey (EU27+). Sophistication for citizen services is at 63% (compared to 87% for the EU27+). Despite the low level of progress, there are prospects for extending and improvement of eGovernment services in Romania, mainly to the use of structural funds which might ensure part of the financing of projects. The negative effects of the economic crisis can be overcome by the increase in the level of computerization in the public administration sector, while decreasing costs involving a human factor following recent cuts in personnel. Having regard to the actual level of development of eGovernment in Romania, the main difficulty would be to integrate local initiatives already implemented with on-going national strategies in the field.
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