THE INFORMATION SOCIETY IN ROMANIA: A CONCEPTUAL MODEL OF THE SYSTEM OF INDEXES FOR EVALUATION OF THE INFORMATION SOCIETY

The evaluation of information society is a dynamic system. In defining the set of critical indexes for development in Romania we'll have to take into consideration the following distinctions: economy-society, information knowledge. In order to personalize the group of indexes appropriate for Romania we have to consider the capacity of a given group of indicators to correspond to tire interests of a defined group of stakeholders. Actual tendencies show that in order to follow the progress in development in the information society the best solution is that of defining an index that can cover all tire critical aspects for the analyzed phenomena and process. We suggest three areas of interest: individual, company, government and tire educational system. We can select the right indexes corresponding to these ones for the present state of development in order to define a composite index E-RO which will include all indexes present in our model. In the following stage E-RO values should be determined in order to establish lite development objectives of the information society and of the society based on knowledge and to separate stages in the Romanian economy process of transformation. We determine E-RO for the fallowing components: e-business, e-individuals/cilizens, e-government, e-learning.