Romania behind on European digital progress

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With a score of 30.6 points, Romania lags behind all other EU Member States, according to the European Commission’s Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) 2022, which tracks digital progress in the European Union. The EU average is 52.3 points.

According to the EC’s press release, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Member States made progress in their digitization efforts, but have not yet managed to close gaps in the areas of digital skills, digital transformation of SMEs (small and medium enterprises), deployment of advanced 5G connectivity structures and AI (artificial intelligence) development.

Even still, taking all aspects into consideration, Romania’s relative annual growth is behind that of its peers, indicating that it is not converging with the rest of the Member States.

And while the country maintains its high rankings in the proportion of employed female ICT specialists (ranking 2nd), ICT graduates (ranking 4th), and connectivity (which surpasses the EU average), it is lagging behind in several other areas, such as a very low level of basic digital skills in the general population and a low level of digitalization when it comes to public services and businesses, especially SMEs.

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