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Awards and prizes

 

EPSA 2011

The Knowledge Based Economy Project has received a new certification of Good Practice at the 2011 „European Public Sector Awards” (EPSA) within the European Institution of Public Administration.

The Best Practice Certificate has been received upon three evaluation steps made by an experienced jury, comprising a shortlist of 58 nominees from a total of 274 projects from 33 participating countries. The Ministry of Communications and Information Society, through the Project Management Unit, competed  in the EPSA 2011 Awards at the „Smart Public Service in a Cold Economic Climate”category. This Best Practice distinction rewards and certify the outstanding results that KEP Project has had until now.

 

The COMPUTERWORLD Honors Program

The Project Management Unit, within the Ministry of Communications and Information Society, has been named a Laureate in the 2011 ComputerWorld Honors Program.

The „Knowledge based Economy Project” joins 254 others from 23 countries as Laureates in this year’s program, from more than 1000 applicants world wide.

The Awards Ceremony will be held in June, 20th 2011, in Washington D.C., USA.

 

National Agency of Public Servants

1st Prize at the National Competition of Best Practices in Public Administration, , for "Improving public services through quality management and organizational performance" category, organized by the National Agency of Public Servants in 2010.

Knowledge based Economy Project is considered to be an example of good practice in Romania's public administration due to its remarkable results, its proven efficiency and its disseminated practices.

 

THE HIGHEST HONOR IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Finalist, at the International Project Excellence Awards 2010, in "Project Excellence in Medium-Sized Projects" category, organized by the International Project Management Association (IPMA).

The solid implementation and success of the IT&C Training Program in school and business and the eCommunity.ro Portal, both part of the KEP Project, have impressed the IPMA jury (Project Management International Association), who recommends them as one of the most important achievements in project management.

 

e-Inclusion 2008

Medal at the e-Inclusion Competitionorganized by the European Commission, at the section “Geographic Inclusion” section, Vienna, 2008. The Knowledge based Economy Project is considered an example of good practice for effective use of IT&C and digital technology to tackle social disadvantage and digital exclusion.

 

Romanian IT&C Awards 2006

Knowledge Based Economy was considered to be the "Project with the best informational content" at the Romanian IT&C Awards – Bucharest, 2006, for contributing to the extensive process of expanding access to information technologies and modern communications to rural communities.

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PAPI Centres, Points of Interest for Drivers

11.03.2010

The Public Access Points to Information (PAPI) are beginning to have a major role in the road education of the population in the communities they serve. The new service provided by PAPI, the computer simulation of the tests for the driver’s licence, attracts applicants for a driver’s licence, more experienced drivers who want to brush up on their knowledge, as well as imps from the grade school who are keen on understanding the traffic rules and signs, by filling in questionnaires on the computer.

The PAPI centres in the localities of Vărădia de Mureş, Arad County, Oraviţa, the Caraş Severin County, and Urzicuţa, the Dolj County, provide a new service meant for the public from their communities, a service of computer simulation of the tests for the driver’s licences. The number of people interested in this service is growing. The managers of RECL have noticed that even elementary school children are starting to learn the road legislation and the traffic signs, by playing at “filling in the car questionnaire”, which is good for raising the level of road education of the population.

Both the applicants for a driver’s licence, as registered with driving schools, and people who already own a driver’s licence but wish to update their road legislation knowledge come to the PAPI centre in Văradia de Mureş. In order to make the pupils’ task easier, the manager of the Electronic Network of the Local Community (RECL), Cristian Alexe, has placed a shortcut on each desktop with the webpage where the auto questionnaires may be found.

The service for simulating the licence tests is also successful in Oraviţa. “Once this type of service was launched, it did not take long for fans to start showing up, which makes us very happy since we have managed to meet those wishing to obtain a driver’s licence halfway. The Public Access Point to Information in Oraviţa has people who come and visit the www.drpciv.ro website on a daily basis in order to prepare questionnaires helping them assess their knowledge of the car legislation”, as advised by the representatives of PAPI.

In the Urzicuţa locality in Dolj, the service has also been in operation since the autumn of last year and many of those accessing it have set their minds to first gaining a very good grasp of the legislation and only afterwards registering for driving schools.

The applicants for obtaining the driver licence would however want more questions in the database so as to be able to internalize the legislation in a more logical and thorough way as there is a risk that, by practising existing answers, these may only be learnt by heart.

New Regulations for the Theoretical Test of the Driving Test

Currently, the examination of the applicants within the theoretical test of the driving exam is conducted based on tests related to the grasp of the road legislation, the notions of preventive driving, first aid, the elementary notions of mechanics and ecological driving.

The questions based on which the theoretical test is held and the answers associated with the same, from where the exam tests are generated, are prepared and managed by the Driver Licence and Vehicle Registration Directorate (DRPCIV) within the Ministry of Administration and the Interior uniformly across the country by means of a computer application, as specified by Order no. 4/2010 of the minister of the administration and the interior, as published in the Official Gazette no. 43 as of the 19th of January, 2010, amending and supplementing the examination procedure for obtaining the driver licence. The questions and answers from where the tests are generated are provided to the general public by DRCIPV free of charge, by means of an online service, on its own webpage, as additionally specified by the above-mentioned regulation. For category B of the driver’s licence, the test comprises 26 questions and the solving time is of 30 minutes. In order to pass the theoretical examination, the applicant shall provide a correct answer for at least 22 questions.

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Keywords: PAPIVărădia de Mureş UrzicuţaOraviţadriving test simulationroad educationroad legislationnew regulations

Awards and prizes

 

EPSA 2011

The Knowledge Based Economy Project has received a new certification of Good Practice at the 2011 „European Public Sector Awards” (EPSA) within the European Institution of Public Administration.

The Best Practice Certificate has been received upon three evaluation steps made by an experienced jury, comprising a shortlist of 58 nominees from a total of 274 projects from 33 participating countries. The Ministry of Communications and Information Society, through the Project Management Unit, competed  in the EPSA 2011 Awards at the „Smart Public Service in a Cold Economic Climate”category. This Best Practice distinction rewards and certify the outstanding results that KEP Project has had until now.

 

The COMPUTERWORLD Honors Program

The Project Management Unit, within the Ministry of Communications and Information Society, has been named a Laureate in the 2011 ComputerWorld Honors Program.

The „Knowledge based Economy Project” joins 254 others from 23 countries as Laureates in this year’s program, from more than 1000 applicants world wide.

The Awards Ceremony will be held in June, 20th 2011, in Washington D.C., USA.

 

National Agency of Public Servants

1st Prize at the National Competition of Best Practices in Public Administration, , for "Improving public services through quality management and organizational performance" category, organized by the National Agency of Public Servants in 2010.

Knowledge based Economy Project is considered to be an example of good practice in Romania's public administration due to its remarkable results, its proven efficiency and its disseminated practices.

 

THE HIGHEST HONOR IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Finalist, at the International Project Excellence Awards 2010, in "Project Excellence in Medium-Sized Projects" category, organized by the International Project Management Association (IPMA).

The solid implementation and success of the IT&C Training Program in school and business and the eCommunity.ro Portal, both part of the KEP Project, have impressed the IPMA jury (Project Management International Association), who recommends them as one of the most important achievements in project management.

 

e-Inclusion 2008

Medal at the e-Inclusion Competitionorganized by the European Commission, at the section “Geographic Inclusion” section, Vienna, 2008. The Knowledge based Economy Project is considered an example of good practice for effective use of IT&C and digital technology to tackle social disadvantage and digital exclusion.

 

Romanian IT&C Awards 2006

Knowledge Based Economy was considered to be the "Project with the best informational content" at the Romanian IT&C Awards – Bucharest, 2006, for contributing to the extensive process of expanding access to information technologies and modern communications to rural communities.

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