An Assessment of the Quality of the Romanian Urban Web Sites

The local authorities are giving increasing prominence to provision of information online through websites. Seen in a wider perspective, the urban web sites play a key role in allowing every citizen to achieve their full potential and to participate fully in society. Conversely, citizens' awareness and expectations of Internet based online public services have also increased. Although the numbers of the different urban web portals have increased rapidly in the last years, the success of these sites will largely depend on their accessibility and quality. The purpose of this report is to present the results from a comprehensive assessment of the urban web sites across Romania. An instrument has been developed for evaluating the quality of the websites. It is based upon approaches to evaluation that have been documented in the published literature, interviews of people responsible for websites, and testing of websites at different levels of local government. Results show that not only are there wide variations in the spectrum of information and services provided by these urban web sites, but that significant work still needs to be undertaken in order to make these sites examples of "best practice" e-Government services. The overall picture shows that there is still much work to be done, but the study identifies key areas of concern which, if dealt with, would lead to the situation improving significantly.urban web sites, e-government, quality

BOOK REVIEW ON ELEMENTS OF URBANISM; AUTHOR: ALPOPI CRISTINA

In september 2008 has been published at Universitaria Publishing House of Bucharest, Romania, the book "Elements of Urbanism", written by Cristina Alpopi. Cristina Alpopi, Associate Professor at Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, is a dedicated researcher and a prolific author of articles and papers in the field of Urbanism. The book contains 8 chapters very rich in concepts, theories, ideas, representing a contribution to the development of the literature in the field of urbanism.

EVALUATION OF TRUST IN GOVERNMENT: THE CASE OF ROMANIA

The goal of the present study was to develop the profile of the social, economic, and political factors affecting trust in government. To accomplish with this goal a survey was conducted. A questionnaire was designed to gather the necessary information. The questionnaire was composed of 7 questions, unambiguous and easy to complete. The analysis revealed that the citizen’s trust in the Romanian government is very low.trust, government, survey

MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC PASSENGER TRANSPORT SERVICES DURING ECONOMIC CRISIS

Urban transport and especially its core component, local public transport of passengers, is one of the most important functions of a city, because through it is ensured the unity and coherence of all its activities. In this context, the article presents the main characteristics of urban transportation in Romania.public transport, passenger transport, cities, Romania.

THE FORMING SYSTEM IN ROMANIAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

In the context of the Romanian public administration reform, the continuous formation of human resources becomes a solid background. In order to implement all continuous forming programs and realizing the public administration reform objectives there is needed the establishment of the priority problems and the time horizon they must be approached in. All these aspects are mentioned, detailed in the following article.Forming system, public administration, human resource management

URBAN AIR QUALITY. A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MAJOR EUROPEAN CAPITALS

In this article, the authors made a comparative analysis of air quality in several European capitals, with the goal to identify the place occupied by Bucharest among the most polluted cities in the European Union. For this analysis we used data reported by various member states, as well as data provided by the Romanian National Network of Air Quality. The comparative analysis presents the last years evolution for the concentration of the most important substances involved in the atmospheric pollution process, emphasizing the place occupied by Bucharest city according to the quality index value of the cities.air quality, European capitals, comparative analysis, pollution, urban environment.

Information management in healthcare organizations

The health care industry is currently experiencing numerous fundamental changes. Healthcare organizations (HCOs) are increasingly challenged to look at their operations and find new opportunities to reorganize their processes, in order to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their services, reduce costs, be more competitive, and also provide high quality and more personalized patient care. This new business strategy requires HCOs to implement new Information and Communication Technologies, such as Internet applications, enterprise information systems, and mobile technologies, in order to achieve their desired business changes and results, mainly through better information management methods and techniques. Based on these perspectives, this article aims to initially define and discuss the key challenges and opportunities for promoting high quality and cost effective care in HCOs. It describes the fundamental and important aspects of information management, as well as the technology drivers that aim to improve the generation and flow of health information within HCOs.information technologies, management, healthcare organizations

The positive analysis about the condition of Chinese technology gain FDI

The technical level in 21st century will directly decide the international competition ability of a country and become the core factor which the international competition will subdue. Using the reverse effect of shift of technology in foreign investment, a company gains advanced technology through foreign investment and shift it to the investment country, which movement we call it technical gain FDI. Various countries in the world especially the developing countries, such as China, its research level and the environment can’t adapt the demand of economic globalization. So it is a realistic choice to the developing countries to develop technology gain investment and combine with the other foreign investment to gain the advanced technology.international competition, foreign direct investment gains, globalisation

QUALITY MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES – AN APPROACH IN HEALTHCARE INSTITUTIONS

The problems of quality management systems development don´t seem to be interesting for healthcare institutions (HCI) at a glance. But a lot of managers and employees of HCI (including physicians) have already understood that their organizations also operate in environment, which asks for quality, performance and effectiveness. The quality management systems create a strategic framework in which every organization can meet these requirements. In case of HCI the term “quality management system” can be understood as a part of overall management system that is to guarantee the highest customer satisfaction in the most effective manner, especially by following functions: a) assuring the highest service quality for patients; b) creating environment oriented to continual improvement of processes and c) doing it with the lowest expenditure.quality management, healtcare institutions, ISO standards