Knowledge society - reality that should be considered by all countries of the world

The study proposes to outline the special contribution of information and knowledge to the development of all countries of the world. Information and knowledge are found in all stages of humanity evolution. What mostly changed in the latest decades are the ways and magnitude of information creation, collection, processing, storage and remittance. The result of the collaboration between computers and communications system resides in the basis of internet that burst in the latest decade of the previous century thus shaping up The Informational Society based on knowledge. Romania on her position of a country that recently got the statute of market economy may recover the registered economic gaps in comparison with the other countries of The European Community rationally using the advantages conferred by informatics era.information and communications, technology, Internet, competitiveness, informational society, knowledge society, innovation globalization.