Digital Governance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis outlined the key steps so far taken under the government’s digital transformation policy while speaking on Thursday at the online European Semester e-Conference on Greece, ANA reports.
Greece cannot become digitized overnight, he noted, but the coronavirus pandemic accelerated the process. He cited the example of www.gov.gr, the Greek state’s one-stop platform that has made 575 electronic services available to citizens.
Pierrakakis gave an overview of the government’s seven-point strategy for digitization, with examples of completed services:
– Moving the issuing of medical prescriptions online, where patients receive prescription information via SMS messaging and email.
– Simplifying documentation of life issues such as registering a birth, now carried out at maternity hospitals, or death, and issuing several other types of certificates digitally.
– Strategies in citizens’ identification by authorities and public entities and the new IDs.
– Improvements in telecommunications and the upcoming availability of 5G networks via the ongoing auctioning of the relevant frequency spectrum.
– Citizens’ access to 214 online educational programs that provide more than 1,800 hours of free digital skills training by 32 providers.
– The free-of-charge online availability of the Greek State’s anonymized public data and figures to citizens and businesses.
– Better cybersecurity for all.
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