Doing Business (DB) ranking indicates significant scope of improvement in creating conductive business
environment. ICT play an important role in improving business efficiency and extending market reach and
the social impact of ICT has become significant. ICT development is a key area to improve the
competitiveness of the business environment, to increase public sector efficiency and to reduce
bureaucracy.
Economic impact of ICT represents 5% of European GDP and in Romania the percent was 4.1% in 2011,
value decreased versus 2010. In the ICT sector in 2011, the investments was around 3 billion RON,
significantly lower than in other countries with a total number of employees of 128.000 in the field of ITC.
The goal for 2020 is to reach 250.000 employees for Romania. While in recent years the ICT sector has
observed a slowdown in terms of development and employment, this figure takes into account the
average growth of ICT employment in Romania (7% year on year growth) before the economic downturn
and projects it for the 2014 – 2020 period as a target for future investments. Major contributions have
already been made in order to improve the growth of the ICT employment by the Romanian Government
(for example the state aid scheme for creating a minimum number of jobs).
ICT contributed to GDP growth in all economies, but productivity was increased mainly within the
developed economies and based on the below indicators Romania needs to improve the overall growth in
employment.
GDP growth
ICT capital contribution
ICT sector contribution to TFP
Total ICT contribution
ICT contribution as %age of GDP growth
EU15
2.42
0.46
0.27
0.73
30%
USA
3.52
0.82
0.44
1.26
36%
Bulgaria Czech Rep Hungary
0.51
2.27
3.64
0.45
0.73
0.71
0
0.13
0.58
0.45
0.86
1.29
88%
38%
35%
Growth in GDP per person employed
ICT capital contribution
ICT sector contribution to TFP
Total ICT contribution
ICT contribution as %age
1.13
0.41
0.27
0.68
60%
2.21
0.74
0.44
1.18
53%
1.91
0.49
0
0.49
26%
2.8
0.75
0.13
0.88
31%
Growth in persons employed
Overall growth in employment
ICT contribution
ICT contribution as %age
1.28
0.05
3.9%
1.28
0.08
6.2%
-1.37
-0.04
2.9%
-0.52
-0.02
3.8%
Poland
4.81
0.55
0.14
0.69
14%
Romania
0.79
0.22
0
0.22
28%
Russia
1.12
0.09
0
0.09
8%
Slovakia Slovenia
4.1
4.1
0.55
0.54
0.09
0.64
0.54
16%
13%
3.25
0.71
0.58
1.29
40%
4.45
0.58
0.14
0.72
16%
3.55
0.26
0
0.26
7%
1.66
0.13
0
0.13
8%
4.76
0.57
0.09
0.66
14%
3.75
0.54
0
0.54
14%
0.38
0.00
0.0%
0.34
-0.03
-8.6%
-2.67
-0.04
1.5%
-0.53
-0.04
7.5%
-0.63
-0.02
3.2%
0.34
0.00
0.0%
Source: The Impact of ICT on Growth in Transition Economies, Marcin Piatkowski, Warsaw 2004;
More information pertaining to detailed indicators of Romanian economy can be found in Appendix 1 –
Romanian Indicators.
Roadmap for the Digital Agenda in Romania
Taking into account all the factors and the principles listed above, we have developed the following
implementation roadmap. It contains a short description of our next steps, and a division of our lines of
action for the next years.
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