THE ACCESS TO THE COMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN THE ROMANIAN RURAL SPACE – REGULATION, INTRACOMMUNITY GAPS AND RECENT EVOLUTIONS

Abstract

An essential element in the ensurance of a balanced territorial development of rural economies and communities, inclusively from the perspective of creating and maintaining the jobs, is represented by the basic infrastructure, in which, an important place is held by accessibility, the utilization and quality of information and communications’ technology (TIC).  TIC becomes more and more important for the national economy but also for the rural areas, be they individual  or  regarded as a whole, such that the access to TIC becomes a necessity .With implications in all spheres of activity in the national economy, respectively from  agriculture, to industry, tourism or different services, TIC brings forth at national level the issue of allocation of financial resources oriented mainly towards this field, both in the urban environment and especially in the rural one. From this perspective, the present approach proposes itself the realization of a radiography of the access to TIC in the rural environment, with the accent put on the main regulations, as well as the present stage, through the reporting inclusively to the evolutions registered in other Member States.