OREANDA-NEWS. July 04, 2014. A comparative analysis on information technology and communications on the two banks of Dniester, within Strengthening Civil Society involvement in the Transnistria Settlement Process Project, was made public in Chisinau.

The project’s goal is to monitor the five-plus-two negotiations, as well as bilateral talks between the Moldovan and Transnistrian authorities.

An associated expert of the Viitorul Institute, Eduard Tugui, highlighted that there were two communication systems at present, one on the Moldovan side and the other in the Transnistrian region. The systems should be adjusted, so that the residents eventually benefit from qualitative communication services, compatible with the observance of requirements of international bodies in the sector.

The study was conducted by expert Dinu Turcanu, with the financial support of the Balkan Trust for Democracy, a project by the American German Marshall Fund. “We have put special emphasis on infrastructure and challenges in the sector of information technology and communications, but also on overcoming obstacles that appeared due to the present situation in the Transnistrian region,” Turcanu said.

For his part, the representative of IDIS Viitorul, expert Veaceslav Berbeca presented a detailed report on the role of working groups in consolidating confidence between the two banks of Dniester and emphasised their importance to set an efficient communication in the IT and communications sector, in order to avoid excessive politicisation of the tackled issue.

Attending the event, the head of the Section for Communication Policies of the Department for Policy Elaboration at the Information Technology and Communications Ministry, Vitalie Boboc stressed that the tackled item was an important one, in order to regulate ties of the communications sector on both banks of Dniester, evolution of the conflict in the communications area and to identify possible solutions to settle the situation emerged in the field.

The project is meant to work out complex sectoral studies by Moldovan and Transnistrian expert groups, which may to be used by the working groups, in order to be able to provide solid solutions in the area.