This volume brings together twelve thematic country reports about Romania and a regional report about Europe, with a focus on the information society development from a civil society perspective. The author has participated twelve times from 2007 to 2020 as a rapporteur for Romania – and once for Europe, in 2010 – in the Global Information Society Watch (GISW) programme, coordinated by the Association for Progressive Communications (www.giswatch.org).

There are numerous global perspectives on the information society and the digitalization process: what makes the GISW different is the civil society perspective, and the multi-stakeholder approach.