PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION FROM ROMANIA IN THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY AND E-LEARNING

In a recent report published by the International Monetary Fund noted that "after two decades of reform with disastrous performance, Romania has made remarkable progress on stabilization, growth and poverty reduction over the last four years". Lack of economic performance between 1990 and 2000 explains to some extent values for the current state of knowledge society (KS), in Romania. In the report's conclusions on the Information Society in our country state that Romania is behind other countries in Central and Eastern Europe but there is still a rapidly growing presence of mobile phones, Internet use, the use of computers connected to Internet by companies and investment expenditures and equipment and the number of employees in companies using the Internet has doubled in the construction industry and has seen significant growth in trade.Public Administration, Knowledge Society, Information Technologies and Communication Platforms, eLearning

Public Services as Poles of Regional Competitiveness in Sustainable Development

During the last 2-3 decades regional competitiveness became one of the key concepts used in regional social-economical analysis. Another related term, competitiveness of an economical branch, economical sector or particular industry, is used as an indicator of great importance for the position of the products or services of a specific sector on a market which is more and more crowded. Taking into account the importance of the above mentioned terms, especially the importance granted to them by the Lisbon Agenda, and the fact that a bigger and bigger share of the Gross Domestic Product of a nation is achieved in the field of public services, this work tries to analyze the extent, at the level of the Romanian society, of the contribution of public services of general concern to the emergence and development of regional competitiveness poles, and also the way some services from the category mentioned could become themselves competitiveness poles at European and Romanian economy level.regional competitiveness; poles of competitiveness; public services of general concern.