Digitalization

In 2025, the structures of the Ministry of the Interior carried out 32.9 million accesses to state information systems with personal data – registers of population, real estate, transportation, drivers and legal entities. This is almost 5 million more than in the previous year. The Information and Security Service (ISS) increased the number of accesses from 140,000 to more than half a million.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) on March 9 announced an 18-month ban on Denis Bejan, a Moldovan citizen, for fraudulent activities related to the “Reform Support Group” program in Moldova.

One day, 15 top speakers, practical content about everything important in E-Commerce & Digital Marketing in 2026 and 100% networking. The eCommerce and digital marketing community in the Republic of Moldova is gearing up for one of the most relevant industry gatherings this year. The GPeC Meetup returns to Chisinau, bringing together experts from Romania and the Republic of Moldova for a day dedicated to eCommerce trends in the region.

Obviously it’s not the country’s biggest problem, but for more than 200 hours some 90 million people in Iran have been living without internet.

Indonesia’s Ministry of Communications and Digital Technology has banned the use of social media by children under the age of 16, according to Logos Press.

The EU and Canada have started negotiations on the so-called Digital Trade Agreement (DTA) amid Europe’s conflict with the US over digital regulation.

Elon Musk continues to surprise and shock. In a post on X early Monday morning, the billionaire responded to X user Bojan Tunguz, who wrote that he has “a fact-based feeling that we will have a full-fledged general artificial intelligence” (AGI) by the end of this year.

UPDATED. In Moldova, the MD-ALERT emergency notification system will be created, which will allow the authorities to quickly warn people about emergency situations via cell phones. The cost of implementing the system is estimated at about 5 million euros.

The National Bank of Moldova (NBM) intends to integrate AI technologies more fully into its activities and has been actively discussing their role at various regional conferences for several years.

The Chinese government has said it will actively use artificial intelligence (AI) technology to distribute 12.7 million university graduates into the labor market in 2026. The figure is a record: it exceeds the population of countries such as Belgium.

Three young Romanian entrepreneurs realized that there was a great need for an affordable and easy-to-use app for small businesses that need to declare waste, so in mid-2023 they developed and launched the Waste Registry app, which now helps more than 1,100 businesses track their waste.

A new article has been introduced into the Code of Offences to penalize the use of copyright infringing devices. The legislative initiative implements into national legislation the Directive of the European Parliament and the Council on the legal protection of services with conditional access or based on such services. The document was adopted in the second reading by 53 deputies.

The National Bank of Moldova (NBM) will organize, from 16 to 22 March 2026, a series of events within the International Financial Education Week (Global Money Week) to introduce children and young people to topics that will help them make responsible financial decisions.

The Ministry of Education and Research has launched public consultations on the draft Program for the implementation of the Development Strategy “Education 2030” for the period 2026-2030. The document defines concrete actions through which the reforms in the education system of the Republic of Moldova will be continued and strengthened in the coming years.

The city of St. Petersberg (Florida) is preparing one of the largest renovations in the history of the museum dedicated to the works of Salvador Dali. The management of the institution announced a $65 million expansion project, which is scheduled to be completed by 2028. The new stage of the museum’s development should transform it from a traditional exhibition space into a modern center of digital and immersive art.

The process of voluntary unification of mayoralties will be adjusted by changing the methodology. Local authorities will be given more freedom in decision-making. The government’s proposals were presented today by the government’s secretary-general, Aleksey Buzu.

At the annual Mobile World Congress, the largest mobile technology exhibition held in Barcelona from March 2 to 5, the world’s leading brands present not just another flagship, but devices that show the defining trends in the development of the industry and already claim to be the most important products of the year.

In Moldova, the minimum affordable package of services (Internet + minutes) costs less than $10, making the country the fourth most affordable mobile plan in the region. In terms of price/quality ratio (data value index, cost of 1 Mbps), the country ranks ninth, ahead of Denmark and many Western European countries.

Fifteen Moldovan small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) carried out an analysis of their companies’ activities in terms of the real and necessary level of digitalization.

South Korea’s largest wireless carrier SK Telecom spoke at Mobile World Congress (MWC 2026) in Barcelona about how it is reshaping its operations around artificial intelligence, from the core of its network to its customer support services.