How the Minister of Economy explains that only 31 of the more than 250 employees of the authority for the digitization of Romania are IT

The Minister of Economy and Digitization, Bogdan Ivan, said on Wednesday that the authority for Digitization of Romania is “an administrative structure of European financing in the field of digitization, not a company that provides IT systems”, after being asked by HotNews.ro, why only 12% of the employees of the Agency who manage systems such as Ghișeul.ro IT&C.

“I agree, in principle, that you need more employees who have IT knowledge, precisely to ensure, when you have such situations, a more operative response,” said the Minister of Economy and Digitalization, referring to the incident in February, when all IT systems managed by ADR could not be accessed for several days.

Asked if it seems normal to be normal for only 31 employees to have diplomas in the IT&C specialization, Ivan said: “I told you that it is an administrative unit that has the main role of carrying out projects with European financing or some extremely important and essential systems and not a company to provide IT services for another public authority.”

The PSD Minister of Economy and Digitalization mentioned that in the process of reorganizing ADR is also included “creating a structure, which will bring an equivalent financing with the salary in the market for IT specialists, because where we have punctual situations, when we carry out so many projects, we need project managers”.

ADR asks for help from the government

“Today we have below 30 people who really follow these projects, who have IT skills, but you will not be able to keep a very good IT-IT for 3,000 lei per month or 4,000 lei, given that you have to fall with the pay grid in the public administration in Romania. So we now have a unit of 30 people. need for efficiency, ”said Minister Ivan.

The minister said that the GEO project in this regard will be adopted within a maximum of two weeks.

Hotnews wrote that ADR, which will soon manage 30 other IT applications in the government private cloud, has asked the Government a new structure with cloud specialists for a period of 7 years.

Specifically, a recently launched GEO project in public consultation aims to create a new structure at the level of the authority for Digitization of Romania (ADR), the centralized unit for cloud and advanced technologies, with specialists outside the organizational chart, in which maximum 30 specialists in cloud technologies, advanced technologies, information technology, information technology and communications are employed. digital.