“Artificial intelligence can bring citizens closer to the municipality,” said Digital Governance Minister D. Papastergiou, who attended the Municipality of Chania for artificial intelligence.

The Municipality of Chania, who continues his efforts and actions to play a leading role in the digital transformation of local government and the faithful, according to Mayor Panagiotis Simandirakis, in his commitment to innovation, transparency and security, organized the Architectural Center.

The presentation of the actions of the Municipality of Chania was held by the Deputy Mayor of Economic and Digital Governance, Tassos Aloglou, and the Head of the Municipality of Chania Municipality, Sevasti Polychronakis. The seminar was attended by the Minister of Digital Governance, Dimitris Papastergiou, the Commander of the National Cyber ​​Security Authority, Michalis Bletsas, the President of the Regional Union of Municipalities of Crete, George Marinakis, on behalf of the Directorate opencouncil.chania.gr, Christos Porios.

As Mr. Papastergiou said, “Artificial intelligence can bring citizens closer to the municipality. Obviously with the municipalities, I know very well how important it is to use new technologies and new tools in order to gain something much more important than any financial tool or infrastructure and that is confidence. ” He observed that “we want technology to bring citizens closer to them, to show them that the municipalities are finally there and they hear, they feel, for the citizens to see that their opinion counts on the participation and design of the next moves of each municipality.”

The commander of the National Cyber ​​Security Authority, Michalis Bletsas, referred to the challenges and problems arising from the digital age in the public sector, the “battle” at cyber security as well as the potential of artificial intelligence to improve situations. Mr Bletsas announced, among other things, that the defense on the issues that arise is the utilization of the physical intelligence that citizens have. “Today for the Municipality of Chania is a very important moment, as it seems the result of an effort, which has been in the last five years, which began with a comprehensive intervention and upgrading of all computing systems, which continued with the utilization of all financial tools and then with the creation of innovative applications so that the Municipality can work well,” Panagiotis Simandirakis, who also emphasized that “we will show how new technology, artificial intelligence comes and answers the questions that citizens raise about processes, participatory design and monitoring of the leading democratic body, which is the City Council, and how the City Council is and how to do so.” The mayor announced that in all this effort the key element is the investment in human resources, “as heretics and officials have worked all the previous years so that we can have the result, which we will present today to the most responsible and material responsible, extremely experienced and successful, The direction, where the Municipality of Chania is moving on the digital part is the right one and is mainly a pioneer. “

The Deputy Mayor of Economic and Digital Government, Tasos Aloglou, spoke of an important day for the Municipality of Chania, as the platform https://opencouncil.gr/chania is inaugurated and presented, “a platform, which uses artificial intelligence, which makes our municipality, In the institutions of the Municipality of Chania and mainly enables our citizens to be participatory and to develop their interest in every themes they are interested in, in every area in the administrative boundaries of our municipality. “

The Municipality of Chania is pioneering digital transformation issues, having taken steps and jumps, according to the Municipal Authority, in recent years in this regard, “we have used any financial tool is available to upgrade the quality of the work and services provided by the Municipality to the Municipality.”