K. Pierrakakis: Technology is a mechanism that equalizes old inequalities

The Minister of Digital Government, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, spoke about the many and big changes that need to be made, but also about yesterday’s pending issues that need to be covered. “.

“Technology is a means to change and simplify processes,” he said. “which is coming and which you can ride very quickly and create huge added value for the country. As long as you have a team, a plan, a vision and a will.”

Mr. Pierrakakis also referred to the innovations and actions that the ministry has achieved by creating “our know-how. We have achieved this in vaccines. We have achieved this in the way we managed 5G, we have achieved this in a series of actions. “In vaccines, a supply chain management system had to be set up from scratch within seven weeks.”

He reiterated that the funding of the Recovery Fund “allowed us to finance 100% of the strategy and more. That is, not only the necessary and desirable. And those concerning the 4th Industrial Revolution”, while noting that 700 million euros in the Fund Recovery concerns paper digitization. “As a state we are drowned under a pile of paper. Paper must be digitized and made information,” said Mr. Pierrakakis, who said that “the Greek state has been the big patient in terms of economic development of the past decades because “unnecessary bureaucracy has greatly slowed down economic growth.” That’s why the ministry’s initiatives moved to become “a ministry Chief information officer, that is, responsible for managing all information. People are interested in the events of their lives, basically being served and basically being served at one point.”

The minister did not fail to speak about a change of mentality, saying that “the future in general or you plan it or you exist it and I think for the first time we have established that we have managed to achieve something that until now would not have been possible. becomes “you can sometimes delete the” no “. And beyond that what we have to do is this: delete the” no “more”.

In fact, giving a personal tone to his speech, the minister concluded that “I am from the Peloponnese. I am from Laconia. And because we are very close to Laconia, I remember very strong people very close to me who were basically my grandparents. barefoot children of Areopolis of 1930 with their rosy hands built Greece “and added that” our generation will be called to do the same again. To rebuild the country, only now it will do otherwise. Not necessarily through its hands “Literally speaking, but mostly through what ‘s between her ears. And I think it’ s entirely possible.”