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K. Pierrakakis: The state must constantly evolve, it must constantly change

The Minister of Digital Government, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, spoke about the transformation of the state, the biggest reform as he characterized it, in the context of his speech on the topic: “200 years after the founding of the state by I. Kapodistrias – The restart of the state in the digital age “in the hall of the Parliament in Nafplio, in an event organized by the municipality of Nafplio.

As he stressed “on the occasion of the past we are here to talk about the future. Because in the future everything will be judged, even the past again”.

Referring to the phrase of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis “rebuild the state”, the minister stressed that “this meant that the state, almost 200 years after the Revolution, must be transformed. The state must be constantly transformed, must constantly change. “to constantly reform, to be able to reward its good elements, to correct the bad, to improve. And the truth is that the state in recent years, in the last decades, has been the big patient.”

As the minister characteristically said, “the biggest reform is none other than the transformation of the state, and in this area one can only see that there has been no greater reform since the establishment of the Greek state. That is what Ioannis Kapodistrias achieved, starting in 1828, and of course with the official recognition of the Greek state.The legacy of Kapodistrias, of Trikoupis, reaches Venizelos, the reconstruction of the country by Konstantinos Karamanlis and its entry into the EEC and many more. legacies that establish that the country needs to change “.

In fact, Mr. Pierrakakis pointed out that “reforms have a common parameter in their composition, they always affect some and always some benefit from them. Usually some are affected a lot, but many win all”, while referring to today’s stakes he pointed out that “They are different, they are technologies, such as fiber optic networks, satellites, new networks that finally come to release some great possibilities, but also to solve the problem of the ‘big patient'”. Mr. Pierrakakis did not fail to talk about the changes that have been made with the simplification of procedures and digitization of services as happened in life events, such as the declaration of birth of a child with a move to the maternity hospital or the vaccination system. “The most important thing in the case of the vaccine was not the vaccine itself, but this message that passed, that is, how much and how some things can change and change very quickly.” added Mr. Pierrakakis.

“But let’s go back. Kapodistrias tried to build a state by uniting it and overcoming the different factions, which in the end cost him his life. Today we are faced with various small priorities that exist within a state-state, which “The central state has to go beyond them to cover the overall common interest. In the beginning we had to deal with the different databases that existed in the ministries, but also the fact that the systems did not communicate with each other.” As Mr. Pierrakakis noted, “The state was not designed for the citizen, but for the state itself. Technology allows us to redesign the state in how it works and make it politico-centric, that is, to change the equation. The citizen enters the focus and that is the most important “.

Regarding the 567 million digital transactions recorded in 2021, Mr. Pierrakakis repeated the huge response of the people, as they correspond to approximately 63 queues that every citizen escaped and “so one sees the exponential leap, but also that the people were actually thirsty so as not to suffer “, while he also referred to the 1398 digital services that in a period of 2.5 years, were created more than one service per day, along with Saturdays and Sundays. “These services were created in a short period of time and were created through the passion and work of hundreds of people.”

In fact, the minister spoke of “a mechanism for the consolidation and strengthening of social justice.” same rights. The simplification and acceleration of procedures is a force that essentially extends social equality, social justice, equal opportunities, equality and equality of rights. The state must help the citizen and not against him. This is what we are trying to do and this is exactly the meaning of all this great effort. The message that I personally receive from Kapodistrias is the restoration of unity, the removal of barriers, the overcoming of obstacles and all that was imposed by the manners, the habit, the geography and the fragmentations that have sealed the inner landscape, its character individual and our state itself. They are the fragmentations that we must overcome in order to achieve great goals “. “If we do not achieve with our forces today much more, much greater, which I think is absolutely achievable.”

Source: AMPE

Source: Capital

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