“We bring the state to the citizens’ mobiles. Our plan is also a more effective and efficient state with less bureaucracy, even digital. Therefore, we are constantly looking for opportunities to further modernize the public sector through technology, ensuring that every citizen and business will have access to services quickly and easily“, He underlined – in addition to the Prime Minister – Digital Governance Minister Dimitris Papastergiou at the World Governments Summit 2025 in Dubai. The issue of this year’s Council, which brings together politicians, international organizations and scientists from around the world to discuss issues of governance and innovation, is “Shaping Future Governments”.

On the sidelines of the Summit, Mr. Papastergiou met with Undersecretary of Secretary of Intelligence of the United Arab Emirates, Omar Sultan Al Olama, where it was agreed to establish a Digital Governance Working Group, in the context of the implementation of the two Memorandums of Cooperation between the two countries between the two countries. . The working group will consider areas such as artificial intelligence, space, health, civil protection, state digitization, the fight against bureaucracy. The UAE Minister also showed great interest in the Greek strategy for protecting minors from internet addiction and Digital tools Parco.gov.gr and Kids Walletproposing to present themselves as iconic initiatives at the 2026 Summit in order to persuade more governments to adopt them.

The Minister of Digital Governance When mounting on the World Governments Summit 2025 He brought as examples of bureaucracy, gov.gr, gov.gr Wallet documents, digital identification of football and basketball games, as well as the possibility of consent through the digital wallet. “One of the reforms we have most recently implemented is the Consent digital consent. We give citizens the opportunity to approve the pumping and disposal of their personal data through Gov.gr Wallet. This is a significant change that even reduces digital bureaucracy as data is being traded rather than documents“The minister characteristically emphasized.

Continuing, Dimitris Papastergiou noted: “In the context of digitizing procedures, it is demanded to delete bureaucracy layers where possible, instead of digitizing horizontal administrative procedures and documents. Public databases contain all the necessary information. An organization essentially wants the data contained in a certificate, not the certificate itself, when it is asked by citizens. In this regard, we work with the Ministry of the Interior to remove the need to produce popular certificates, such as birth and marital status certificates“

The Minister of Digital Governance made a special reference to the utilization of data to combat bureaucracy. “The “oil of the future” is the data. The volume of data collected globally is huge and it is obvious that states that have access to extensive sets of data from various sources can make a significant contribution to their use. The next period will be consulted by the public sector data management bill with the aim of ensuring the utilization of data for purposes beyond their original use, with compliance with data protection rules, while sanctions will be provided for those who violate the relevant provisions.“

“As part of the exploitation of data and taking into account the increased needs for TN, we take initiatives for storing and protecting them. Before visiting Dubai, I accompanied Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Paris at the TN Summit. The interest on our part focused on the Greek “TN plant”, “Faros”, one of the first seven “shapes” approved by the European Commission. It will develop with the core of “Daedalus”, one of the largest supercomputers in the world, placing our country at the forefront of technological developments, as well as among the pioneers in responsible use of TN. Our goal is to exploit TN to improve the effectiveness of public services and create solutions in critical areas. Through strategic investment and targeted policies, Greece is turning into a TN and technology hub in Europe, attracting new investments, supporting the research community and creating new growth opportunities in all areas.“, The Minister of Digital Governance stressed.

Digital Governance Minister Dimitris Papastergiou participated in a panel on pioneering solutions to cut bureaucracy along with Estonia Minister of Economy and Industry, Erkki Keldo, co -founder and executive director of “Dark Matter Labs” The discussion was coordinated by journalist Jane Witherspoon.