Greece is ahead of Germany in terms of the digitization of public services, a German minister noted on Thursday, ANA reports.
This was mentioned by Deputy Minister for Housing, Urban Development & Buildings S?ren Bartol, of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), who is also Germany’s new envoy to the Greek-German Representative Assembly. The German state official was issuing a statement to DEMO, SPD’s magazine about local authorities.
Elaborating, Bartol noted that “Greece is considerably ahead of Germany in some areas,” and that the “digitization of the public administration is a big issue for us at the moment.” In Greece, he added, “citizens can now carry digital identity documents or driving licenses on their smartphones, and there is already valuable knowledge in local government that we can benefit from.”
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