With a package of new digital services focused on the citizen, 2022 is coming. As the Minister of Digital Government, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, has pointed out, the priorities of the ministry’s strategy are to make life easier for citizens, to use simple technological tools to change the way how government services are provided to citizens and how they interact with the state.
The new applications are expected to be completed and start operating in the first half of the new year.
In particular, the services that will be provided electronically will be:
Digital signatures
From the beginning of the new year, in January, a total of 376,500 signatures will be available for specific professional groups, such as business managers, accountants, lawyers, notaries. This has been underlined by Mr. Pierrakakis.
In particular, the signatures that will be available are:
-270,000 to business managers
-the 60,000 in accountants
-the 43,500 to lawyers
-the 3,000 to notaries.
Identity card and driver’s license on mobile
Following the introduction of digital identity in the mobile phone, which enables citizens to prove their identity with the vaccination certificate without the need to show police ID, the Ministry of Digital Government plans to extend this application to use the identity data us and for other services. “We aim at the end of the first quarter of 2022 to have the biggest part of this work” said Mr. Pierrakakis, while regarding the driving license there is a plan within 2022 to create an application where the diploma, the data will be collected on the mobile of the car, of the driver.
Real estate transfers
As the Minister of Digital Government has already mentioned, a system “the digital real estate transfer file” has been designed. “Everything will be done to the notary.” The system with the consent of the interested parties will draw all the required certificates from the information systems of the State.
Establishment of a sole proprietorship
The whole process will be completed with one action, avoiding all the bureaucratic procedures and the inconvenience of the interested parties. “We are digitizing and simplifying the procedures, we are empowering the professionals,” the minister pointed out.
Intangible divorce
The application is coming that will enable couples who want to go their separate ways to move quickly from their home to the issuance of a consensual divorce. The whole process will be done through an internet application. What is provided is that the two parties, through an attorney, will be able to electronically dissolve their marriage within 10 days, without reaching the court, from the platform to the single digital portal gov.gr.
National Register of Procedures
For the first time, the state records and standardizes all its administrative procedures. This is “a project of strategic importance” as the minister has described it, as all the procedures of the Greek State will be recorded step by step, the necessary supporting documents, when they are given digitally or of course and where.
The National Register of Procedures will be publicly accessible to all, so that both citizens and civil servants will easily and quickly find all the supporting documents and actions required to complete any administrative procedure.
Telepsychiatry services
As part of the telemedicine that Mr. Pierrakakis has already announced, free teleconsultation on mental health issues will be offered through a specific platform.
Finally, it should be noted that within the new year, 90% of the projects included in the Digital Transformation Book will be auctioned and will be financed by the Recovery Fund.
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