Abstract:

Globalization creates a more open world which provides opportunities to increase prosperity and to create better jobs. At the same time globalization is accompanied by a process of increased integration which links the economies of countries closer together through increased trade, cooperation, investment and movement of labor across national borders. This applies both in Europe and in relation to the world at large. The scarcity of material resources transforms the producing of knowledge into the main weapon, sometimes the only weapon, in confronting the challenges of the globalization. Romania has started its way towards the Knowledge-Based Society as a main mean to achieve the necessary tool for competitiveness in a world of changes. In the paper below I’ll stop at two aspects for describing the process by which Romania hopes to become a knowledge-based society: access to education and the access to the information technology.