Digitalization – The Key for Adapting Good Administration to a Better Governance

This article analyses, in a relatively generalized framework, one of the current challenges of the European public administration, implicitly of Romania, namely digitalization, focusing on the digitalization of public administration. This analysis is closely related to the application of the principle of good administration, a principle regulated at the level of the European Union by the Charter of Fundamental Rights, but also at the level of other international organizations in various forms. Furthermore, the principle of good administration is seen as a component part of good governance, a desideratum of each state, including international actors, globally. In order to achieve the proposed objective, this article has focused on, in principle, both the legislation in force and the literature that discusses the digitalization of public administration in Romania, starting from the theoretical foundations of good administration that should monitor, among many other aspects, also this area of digitalisation, in order to support citizens, to respect their rights, to involve them in the decision-making process at the level of public policies, with the intention of ensuring better governance. Aware of the fact that governments have a duty to ensure good governance for citizens, we appreciate that the digitalization of public administration plays an important role and that there is a need to identify best practices, tools, technologies, etc. in order to provide digitized services to the citizen, but also for ensuring a government characterized by efficiency and transparency.