Romania
EDRIX Score
4.02
EOTRIX Score
2.50
Tier
Specialized Contender
Overall Assessment
Romania is in the lower tier of EU digital resilience, with low scores across all major pillars. It lacks a strong national policy, a significant developer ecosystem, and widespread grassroots adoption, indicating foundational challenges to its digital sovereignty.
Sobering Reality
2020 Baseline
In 2020, Romania was an "emerging" country where a geopolitically motivated strategic agenda was completely mismatched with its very weak domestic software and OSS policies.
2024 Progression
Romania's vibrant community of OSS enthusiasts continues to be the main driver of adoption. While a central government entity for OSS is still lacking, associations like ROSI and Code4Ro continue to work with the government to advocate for OSS solutions.
2025 Data-Driven Analysis
The data confirms its laggard status. Romania has a very weak Public Policy score (2.50), a small Developer Ecosystem (0.97), and below-average Grassroots Adoption (4.60).
Strengths
- Community: An active and enthusiastic grassroots community, though this is not captured directly in the index metrics.
Weaknesses
- Public Policy: Lacks a coherent, institutionalized national strategy for open source.
- Developer Ecosystem: A very small per-capita developer community.
- Public/Private Sector Resilience: Below-average sovereignty of its core digital infrastructure.
Outlook
For Romania to improve its digital resilience, it needs to move from relying on its community to establishing a formal, supportive government policy. This would involve creating a national strategy, providing funding, and investing in skills to turn its community's enthusiasm into a strategic national asset.