The Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, visited the Ministry of Digital Governance this morning in order to be informed regarding the course of the digital transformation, regarding projects that are “running”, the additional services that facilitate the daily life of citizens.
The meeting lasted an hour and the Prime Minister spoke with the Minister of Digital Governance, Dimitris Papastergiou, as well as the Deputy Minister, Konstantinos Kyranakis.
The prime minister expressed his satisfaction, stressing that “this very important digital progress is beginning to be reflected in the European Union’s evaluation indicators, and this gives us joy, but forces us to move even faster.”
Kyriakos Mitsotakis underlined the need for the digital transformation to proceed more quickly and with the use of technology to make the everyday life of citizens easier through many new services added to gov.gr. Also to improve the productivity of the wider public sector.
“We seek to be one step ahead of Europe”
As he said, artificial intelligence offers enormous opportunities to achieve both of these goals, but also highlights the challenge of using technology with privacy in mind. He added that very soon the AI Act will be implemented at the EU level. Our purpose, as he emphasized, is “to be one step ahead of Europe in order to turn our backwardness in technology matters into a significant advantage for the country.”
He made special reference to “our space policy and the information we will be able to get from the microsatellites that will be fully operational in the next two years. On the occasion, he referred to the success of mycoast, but emphasized that surveillance will also be possible through satellite images.
In 2025, the land registry is completed
He also congratulated the minister on the land register and the great progress that will be completed by the end of 2025 and he spoke of “the enormous developmental importance of this project but also the security it offers especially in matters of legal certainty, a pending matter that came from the past and with a lot of effort it is completed”.
He pointed to the help of foreign scientists who participate in the committee on artificial intelligence. “Our country wants to be a protagonist in the infrastructures related to the processing of this data. One of the EU’s supercomputers will be built in our country and this gives us a lot of computing power to be able to develop a new dynamic ecosystem of innovation and technology.”
He also made special mention of the wallet application and wished the leadership of the ministry to continue its important work to advance the modernization of the state.
For his part, Mr. Papastergiou underlined that “we are moving forward digitally and ahead, Greece is changing and changing digitally. Today we had the honor to welcome the president (Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis) to the Ministry of Digital Governance, to whom we presented all the projects that we have run today and how technology can really help the small everyday, but also the bigger and more visionary ones”.
Papageorgiou: Technology next to the citizen
“Technology must stand by the citizen, make everyday life easier, safer, that is, to be able to provide solutions to issues that concern everyday life. In the first phase we digitized our data, in the midst of the pandemic Greece managed and remained standing administratively, in the second phase we are removing layers of bureaucracy so that we can now carry out many procedures via our mobile phone. Data and its management, data centers and how we will be able to put a green sign on technology is the question, and of course technology for everyone so that digitally we leave no one behind”.
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