“We are finally becoming a serious state that respects the citizen and builds trust,” the prime minister said at the start of his speech at the Athens Concert Hall at the Ministry of Digital Governance event. Kyriakos Mitsotakis and went on to assess that “the digital governance project has been universally accepted.”

The Prime Minister in his speech characteristically said: “When we were planning the future of e-government, we said that first of all we need to create ministry of digital management. All responsible ministers were happy. They didn’t notice that we took on some of their responsibilities.”

And he went on to say that “the government has succeeded in turning adversity into opportunity.” In particular, for “112The Prime Minister said, “We proposed issue 112. Today, 112 is a collective property and represents not only a digital instrument, but also a whole culture of civil protection.”

OUR Kyriakos Mitsotakis she did not fail to mention her period pandemic, as well as the media used in the vaccination process: “Then came the pandemic, which forced us to use the tools that were at our disposal, such as SMS. We then experimented with more advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence, to develop a tool to use the few tests we had at our disposal that first summer. And then, of course, the vaccination process followed, in which the state went to the citizen, and not the citizen to the state,” the prime minister said in his speech.

“Digital reform favors the less privileged”

According to Kyriakos Mitsotakis, “digital reform favors the less privileged.”

“I recommend doing this to those of you who haven’t downloaded myhealth yet.. We are prototyping a digital health file. Technology doesn’t stop. Either she will catch up with us, or we will use her. Technologies that require more connectivity already exist.

The country is turning into a center of high technologies. I want to emphasize the progressive nature of this reform. In a way, it favors the less privileged, those who live on the outlying islands, the handicapped, the working women.” the prime minister continued, then explaining the position that “technologies are associated with a decrease in corruption, with transparency.”

“We are only at the beginning of the journey”

Kyriakos Mitsotakis then said that “a lot has been achieved in these 3.5 years” and thanked “all the civil servants who have contributed”.

“We are only at the beginning of the journey. Rest assured that we can work with technology. The next four years promise to be even more exciting in a number of areas. We still have a lot of work to do.

I would like citizens residing outside of Greece to vote electronically

I recently spoke with the Prime Minister of Estonia. In Estonia, half of the citizens vote electronically. I would like it to happen here as well. At least those who live outside of Greece should have that option.

During my recent visit to Korydallos, I met an elderly woman who was learning the secrets of using computers. I asked her why she was studying and she told me: “I don’t want my grandson to depend on access to gov.gr,” the prime minister concluded.

With information from APE-MPE