Pierrakakis: 2022 is the year when digital progress will be accompanied with the implementation of major IT projects
Minister of State and Digital Governance Kyriakos Pierrakakis [C]. ANA – MPA/NEA DIMOKRATIA PRESS OFFICE/STR
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A New Democracy political academy on the progress made in the digitization of the state mechanism was held with the Minister of State and Digital Governance Kyriakos Pierrakakis as the keynote speaker, in the context of the academies that aim to highlight the government work by thematic area.
The focus of the discussion was the progress that has been made in the digitization of the state mechanism, the proliferation of the available digital services, the latest services, the next steps to be taken and how they affect the daily lives of citizens.
During his speech, Pierrakakis noted: “In 2019, Kyriakos Mitsotakis and New Democracy pledged to respond to the citizens’ mandate to ‘build a state’ – a modern, flexible, digital, citizen-friendly and efficient state. We implement this mandate daily, proceeding with the plan we have drawn up under the supervision of the Prime Minister. And we can say that in the last two and a half years Greece has been recording a significant digital progress, a progress that is reflected in numbers in the daily lives of its citizens.”
The citizens’ digital transactions with the state have recorded a significant increase: from 8.8 million in 2018 and 34 million in 2019, they exceeded 94 million in 2020 and reached 567 million in 2021. These numbers translate into a corresponding number of physical visits to public services that did not have to be made. On average, each adult avoided waiting for about 60 public service queues last year.
2022 is the year when digital progress will begin to meet the implementation of major IT projects. Through the Recovery Fund, we are now able to implement not only the necessary digital projects, but also the desired ones, so that very soon Greece has changed its page once and for all. For this reason, in addition to further progress in digitization and simplification of procedures, this year we are going to auction 90 pct of the digital projects included in the “Greece 2.0” Plan.
Source: ANA – MPA
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