K. Pierrakakis: ‘We are working to deepen the relations between Greece and Saudi Arabia’

The exchange of good practices, mechanisms and knowledge in matters of digital governance, the strengthening of relations and the expansion of cooperation with Saudi Arabia in matters of telecommunications, microsatellites, artificial intelligence, stressed in his greeting the Minister of Digital Government, Greek-Saudi Business Forum, organized by Enterprise Greece in a central hotel in Athens. Mr. Pierrakakis said characteristically that “we are working to deepen the relations between us and to find specific new projects that we can move forward”.

As he characteristically said, the bill “Emerging information and communication technologies and other provisions” enables the expansion of bilateral relations on technology issues, as “we can learn together”.

The minister referred to the course and development of the initiatives and actions of the ministry in the last 3 years, talking about the vision of the prime minister to make Greece a 100% digital state.

Mr. Pierrakakis spoke about the Single Digital Portal, gov.gr which hosts about 1400 services “starting with 504, while just last year in 2021 we had 567 million digital transactions when in 2018 the number of digital transactions reached 8.8 million” emphasizing the great response of the world, of Greek citizens who use digital services.

He even pointed out the critical role played by the pandemic in order to “become faster, more flexible” for the provision of digital services, while he also referred to the success of the vaccination system against Covid 19. He spoke about the wide acceptance of this policy by the Greeks. but that was just the beginning “, talking about a policy that seeks to change the way citizens are served by the State, making it digital and more friendly” solving problems faster “. At the same time, the minister noted that additional time and projects are needed for the digital transformation of the country, while he also referred to the Digital Book that provides investments and financial tools for large and small projects.

Source: ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ

Source: Capital

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