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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.

Creating a portal for the promotion and development of communities – eComunitate.ro

Objective: The eComunitate Portal creates all the functions of a virtual market but also contains, in fields, those functions covered by the target groups in the EBC project, embracing all aspects of local environment: economic, educational, cultural and also the public sector. The portal eComunitate will have multiple purposes: local and private sector development, creating opportunities for communication and exchange of instruments for all decision makers interested in marketing the project to a broad audience, and will generally act as a resource for the various beneficiaries of the project . It will promote interaction in the same virtual space, the internal and external factors that can contribute to community development in the socio-economic and cultural plan.

Utilizatori eComunitate.ro

Process progres

The following activities were completed :

At this point,a consistent web tool is needed in the community, bringing together heterogeneous sources of information, electronic resources, know-how on various subjects related to professional and consulting services, training and technical support.
In order to involve community members in the modern information society, it is necessary to connect them to a common, interactive platform. Thus, operating on the principle of collaboration and exchange of information the eComunitate portal is the largest online community with regional distribution in Romania.

Portal brings together a suite of individual sites, a wide range of information resources, interactive digital educational content, structured information about projects in areas of interest for communities,webt tools formass interaction and many others. The ultimate aim of this portal is to provide appropriate information at the right time and, perhaps most importantly, to the right audience. This is part also of the general trend of aligning the underprivileged population to current communication standards.

Valorile Comunităţii tale

The strategic goal of the business section from the portal is to make Internet companies that had not yet access to this channel of promotion and interaction, paying attention to businesses in disadvantaged communities that are part of the EBC project. Thus, were introduced in the database, a number of 12,000 companies from EBC communities, by taking those records from the National Trade Register Office.

Creează-ţi cont

The Business section of E-community portal allowing registered companies to submit their products and services offer ,including the promotion of these products or services, to post requests for proposals, to respond to requests for proposals of other companies (buyers or suppliers) , to seek business partners.

Perspectives

In perspective, this section will be developed by careful selection of companies that will be stores/recorded, by validating their existence by RECL managers at a local level. This validation will allow the companies listed on the portal e-Comunitate to provide greater confidence in the eyes of potential buyers and business partners. Furthermore, we intend to gradually transfer management of the pages to companies, so that through sustainability and efficiency to achieve a critical mass of transactions and synergistic effects with the portal.

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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.