How Technology can Help in Reducing Romania's Budget Deficit

During the last years, in Romania, the budget is submitted by the Government to the Parliament with delays, the reason being large amount of information coming from all the public institutions and the lack of tools to handle it. The information management is performed manually and, as a consequence, each change needs to be cascaded down manually, adding time pressure. Because of this specific way of handling information, not rare are the cases where, in the end, the numbers simply do not correlate. Offering the civil servants the opportunity to work with the help of a dedicated IT platform will allow for real-time collaborative work, contributing to better management of public money and to the reduction of deficit. This article presents the principles and the ways of functioning of this IT platform. In the coming period, this software could bring value-added for the development and reporting of the budget in accordance with ESA 2010.