Iurie Țurcanu (; born 21 June 1973) is a

Moldova Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova, is a Landlocked country, landlocked country in Eastern Europe, with an area of and population of 2.42 million. Moldova is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. ...

n politician.

Biography

Iurie Țurcanu was born on 21 June 1973 in Corlăteni, in the Rîșcani District. He was the first Deputy Prime Minister for Digitalization of

. This post was created on 6 August 2021 and is responsible for coordinating the activities of three Moldovan institutions: the E-Governance Agency, the Public Services Agency and the Information Technology and Cyber Security Service. In September 2021, Țurcanu represented Moldova at the international conference ''Connecting Municipalities in Digital Era: Best practices from the EU'' and talked about the problems and objectives of Moldova in the digital realm. Later, in December 2021, Țurcanu said that, during the tenure of the

Gavrilița Cabinet The Gavrilița Cabinet () was the Cabinet of Moldova, led by former Ministry of Finance (Moldova), Finance Minister Natalia Gavrilița from 6 August 2021 until 16 February 2023. Gavrilița was previously proposed as prime minister by Maia Sandu ...

, it is possible that Moldovans could start to engage on

electronic voting Electronic voting is voting that uses electronic means to either aid or handle casting and counting ballots including voting time. Depending on the particular implementation, e-voting may use standalone '' electronic voting machines'' (also ...

, although he did not give guarantees for members of the

Moldovan diaspora The Moldovan diaspora is the diaspora of Moldova, including Moldovan citizens abroad or people with ancestry from the country, regardless of their ethnic origin. Very few of them have settled in other parts of the world, but there is a significa ...

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