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K. Pierrrakakis at the pre-conference of ND: ‘The state changes every day’

“We have in our hands a very big reform that the prime minister envisioned,” said the Minister of Digital Government, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, during the pre-conference discussion of ND on “Digital Revolution-Citizen-friendly state” that took place this afternoon. “Reforms, after all,” said Mr. Pierrrakakis, “are peaceful revolutions.”

Reviewing the program of his ministry, Mr. Pierrakakis referred to two important numbers: “The first number is the digital services, gov.gr, the single digital portal of the State started in March 2020 with 501 services that were old, which pre-existing and we started adding two new ones – 503 from day one – the responsible statement and the authorization “. Today, as he stressed, the services reach 1377, which means that “we are talking about more than one service per day, including Saturday and Sunday”. In fact, the minister spoke of a small change every day, “a change that touches each and every one of us.”

As for the second most important number, this is the number of digital transactions “that is, how many times I did not have to go to a government counter to do a job that previously required physical contact. What did we receive? 8.8 million digital transactions in 2018 “. The 8.8 million in 2018 became 34 million in 2019, increased to 94 million in 2020 and reached 567 million digital transactions in 2021. “It is an exponential curve, an exponential change. Each and every one of us saves more than 60 queues in relation to its interdependence and interaction with the State “.

More generally, Mr. Pierrakakis spoke of the Ministry of Digital Governance, “a new ministry created with new responsibilities to solve a problem, that of unnecessary bureaucracy, defining the problem. postmodern, or something strange about the future, or not about the here and now, but about the here and now, for example the parent who is going to get compensation for the speech therapy or psychotherapy of his child and stood in dozens queues “. Mr. Pierrakakis spoke about a state that did not respect the citizen, saying that “each of these 1377 services reflects an act of respect for our fellow citizens and is an act that comes and depends on the request of the 2019 elections, which It was said to the Prime Minister himself and to everyone, ‘Build a state.’ This is exactly what we are trying to do, to rebuild the state and to rebuild it in another way. may concern all the procedures, it may concern things that we presented today in relation to the digital booklet of the child, it may concern things in which we cooperate with the Ministry of Interior, with Makis Voridis and Stelios Petsas, under the coordination of the Deputy Minister , Th. Livaniou, with whom we work the program of smart cities, where 320 million euros will be given to all municipalities in the country, so that they too can do the d their own digital transformation “. The minister even stated that “at the end of the day, all this comes to symbolize a great change Ελλάδα Greece is a reformable country and this great change comes to prove and establish it. The state can change, the state changes “every day and this is something we will continue to do. One service at a time and more than one service per day”, concluded Mr. Pierrakakis.

Source: Capital

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