Representatives of the public authorities from Iasi, Spain, France, Greece, Latvia and Portugal signed, on Tuesday, in Iasi, a declaration of digital rights in an event organized by the Digi-Inclusion project, financed by European Commission, inform agerpres.
The project manager, Albert Garcia, told the media that the main objective of organizing this event is to combat social exclusion by reducing the digital gap among citizens.
„The name of the network is Digi-Inclusion, there are nine cities that participate in this network – from the north, south and west of Europe. The nine European cities have, in total, about 1 million euros available to try to increase the degree of digital inclusion in our cities, so as to ensure that people who do not benefit from digital solutions today will be able to do so in the future,” said Albert Garcia.
According to the quoted source, the project aims to combat social exclusion by reducing the digital gap through training activities, mentoring, tutoring; the realignment of the current resources of the municipalities to stimulate the digitalization of citizens; rethinking the use of software tools; training in the field of digital security.
24 representatives of the local public administration, members of the implementation teams and local action groups from the seven European partner countries took part in the event.
„Digitalization is a continuous process that targets not only public institutions, but each individual citizen. We have many projects regarding the digitalization of public services, you have seen sanitation, public transport, Iasi City Hall and we hope to become a complete entity as soon as possible digitized in the field of urbanism, especially there. We are waiting for a change in the legislation that will allow this. There is more and more talk about digitization in the sanitary field. Consider that digitalization only works as long as you have data transfer and which it doesn’t depend on a local public administration. I think it’s the main challenge for digitization. Otherwise, I don’t see any particular problems, as I said, in the field of urban planning,” declared the mayor of Iasi, Mihai Chirica.
