Pierrakakis: The Pandemic Sped Up the Development of Digital Applications

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Pierrakakis: The Pandemic Sped Up the Development of Digital Applications

January 29, 2021

In this photo taken on Thursday, May 7, 2020, Greek Digital Governance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis checks his laptop at his office in Athens. (AP Photo/Iliana Mier)

AP In this photo taken on Thursday, May 7, 2020, Greek Digital Governance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis checks his laptop at his office in Athens. Greece plans to rapidly expand government digital services in 2020 to try and slim down its notoriously slow-moving bureaucracy and help the country exit its pandemic recession more quickly. More than 500 services are available through a new online portal, gov.gr, launched on March 21 during lockdown measures. Kyriakos Pierrakakis, minister of digital governance, told The Associated Press he hopes to add at least 200 more services by the end of the year - roughly one per day. (AP Photo/Iliana Mier)

ΑΤΗΕΝS — The pandemic played a decisive role in speeding up the growth and development of digital applications, Digital Governance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis said on Friday, to serve citizens' needs and contributie to Greece's digital transformation.

Addressing an Economist teleconference on artificial intelligence – "AI At the dawn of 2021:Thinking outside the box" – he said that that in times of great pressure, digital solutions have been proven necessary in managing crises. Digital services become the main lever of economic growth, and the role of digital technologies will increase even further, he underlined.

"Our government reasserts every day its consistent political commitment to the continuous digital transformation of the economy and of our society," Pierrakakis said.

He also pointed out that Greek citizens' confidence in the state was being restored, something "difficult to gain but easily lost," as he said, and built step by step.

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