President Nicusor Dan on Tuesday stated, on the occasion of his participation in the Digital Governance Summit 2025, that the state institutions do not collaborate to share information in a structured, organised and stable manner, and sometimes the different institutions even provide contradictory information, which is not normal and affects the decision-making process.

President Dan also said that the state does not have the mechanisms to automatically detect disinformation campaigns and the interaction between the state, the citizens and the business environment is often deficient.

„The administration needs to work with data, which is very important, and to make decisions based on these data, and this is probably the thing that bothered me the most since I took office, that often the information coming from different areas is different or differs from one month to the next and this is not normal. Precisely because there is no structure and collaboration between institutions, so that the information would come in a structured, organized and stable way,” said Nicusor Dan, at the Digital Governance Summit 2025, when asked about the integration of technology in the country’s Defence Strategy.

He added that ”the interface between the state and those who have to use it is often deficient”.

„Another thing is the interaction with the citizens and the business environment and the interface between the state and those who have to use it is often deficient. This is correlated, if we talk about the National Defence Strategy, with people’s trust in the state, which is essential,” added the president.

He also said that the Romanian state is good in the „cyber zone”, but not in the disinformation zone.

„Regarding the security area itself, here we have of course the cyber area, in which, in my opinion, the Romanian state is quite good. Of course, technology is advancing and we must advance with it – but it is the area of disinformation in which we are still not good, that is, we do not have those mechanisms for automatically detecting disinformation campaigns and the way in which state institutions communicate by reporting to the communication landscape is not structured at all,” said Nicusor Dan, on the same occasion. AGERPRES