In the next day of digitizationmentioned the Minister of Digital Governance, Dimitris Papastergiou in his televised interview at Open, noting that “the next day is the new wallet, the new mobile application that, with its approval, the citizen will be able to carry out his business without having to present no document”.

He called it a major reform the personal number, “which will be our VAT number plus three digits and with this number that will be produced in December, the citizen will be able to make any transaction in the State. The staff will be registered on the new IDs after December.” As Mr. Papastergiou pointed out, the personal number will be chosen by the citizen himself, as “he will open a platform on gov.gr and choose his personal number».

In the meantime, he talked about the use of technology in dealing with extreme weather phenomena, as he said it can give us an early forecast or in the case of fires “with systems developed with lasers, you can have a quick signal that there may be a fire in some remote area . We are already testing such systems so that in the next period we will have them in use”, while he repeated the platform implemented in collaboration with the Ministry of Interior for gross plots. “From May 1, all this will be electronic, the citizen will know that his plot must be clean, he will receive a message and if he does not do it, the fine will be automatically and electronically imposed by the municipality.”

Regarding the program “Smart Cities” the minister noted that it is a program that enables each municipality to see its needs and “within the next two years it should implement solutions that will make the lives of citizens easier”.