Mr. Pierrakakis: ‘We have changed and improved the state-citizen relationship’

The Minister of Digital Government, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, spoke about the digital transition in Greece at the New America Foundation, during his visit to Washington.

Mr. Pierrakakis noted that “we have created the Bible of digital transformation and we expect to have achieved all the goals by 2026”, while referring to the work being done by the ministry so that citizens can receive by SMS the exams they should take in in the context of their annual audit. “Consider that my team had to talk on the phone with all the hospitals in the country, which have different systems and which systems do not” talk “and find all the solutions so that the service works for everyone.”

At the same time, the minister spoke about a politic-centric approach and gov.gr where all the services are gathered, which reached 1,398. He stressed, in fact, that “digital reform was a vision that the prime minister had and includes service design, simplification of procedures, their digitization and, of course, telecommunications.”

Among other things, Mr. Pierrakakis pointed out that one of the basic reforms was that “as soon as we took over the ministry, we passed the bill on digital in Parliament, which was passed with unprecedented acceptance by the majority of parties.” “We are not looking at how to make the majestic-perfect cuts on the digital transformation but we are building on the daily small or even bigger ‘victories'”, he added.

“We have changed and improved the state-citizen relationship,” said the Minister of Digital Government, adding that “KEP will continue to exist because the fact that you make jumps in digital does not mean that you cancel the service with physical presence. Instead you gather all digitally into one “.

SOURCE: ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ