Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited the Ministry of Digital Governance in the morning in order to be informed about the ministry’s issues, the initiatives and actions that are being planned, but also about the progress of the projects that are already being implemented. Mr. Mitsotakis’ meeting with Minister Dimitris Papastergiou and Deputy Minister Konstantinos Kyranakis lasted for an hour.

Mr. Mitsotakis stated that with the leadership of the ministry they did a comprehensive overview of the important work that has been done in the last year and the projects that are being launched in the immediate future. As he said, it’s starting to take its toll in the EU assessment indicators the very important digital progress that citizens are also noticing.

He emphasized that this is something that gives joy to the government, but it also underlines the need to move faster and with the use of technology to make the everyday life of citizens easier through many new services that are added to gov.gr. Also to improve the productivity of the wider public sector.

As said by artificial intelligence offers enormous opportunities to achieve both of these goals, but also highlights the challenge of using technology with privacy in mind. He added that very soon the AI ​​Act will be implemented at the EU level. “Our aim, as he emphasized, is to be one step ahead of Europe in order to turn our backwardness in technology matters into a significant advantage for the country.”

He then made two special references to two actions of the ministry. One concerns our policy in space, and the information we will be able to get from them microsatellites to be fully operational in the next two years. On the occasion, he referred to the success of mycoast, but emphasized that surveillance will also be possible through satellite images.

He also congratulated the minister on the land registry and the great progress that has been made. Until at the end of 2025 this project will be completed and it will be a reality, and he focused on the enormous developmental importance of this project but also on the security it offers especially in matters of legal certainty, a pending matter that came from the past and is being completed with a lot of effort.

He pointed to the help of foreign scientists who participate in the committee on artificial intelligence. “Our country wants to be a protagonist in the infrastructures related to the processing of this data. One of the EU’s supercomputers will be built in our country, and this gives us a lot of computing power to be able to develop a new dynamic ecosystem of innovation and technology”.

He made special reference to the wallet application and wished the leadership of the ministry to continue its important work to advance the modernization of the state.