A new digital card is now available for the registered unemployed on the Gov.gr Wallet app, which will provide updates on benefits and make physical cards obsolete, the ministries of Labor and Social Affairs and of Digital Governance announced on Monday, along with the Public Employment Agency (DYPA).
The General State Archives (GAK) intends to scan at least 55 million pages of documents from its holdings as part of a 29-million-euro investment that has been included in the EU Recovery Fund.
What is it like to stay in Greece as a digital nomad? Laura Kremer from Germany is one of many who have found out.
The first companies organizing the stays of people who choose to live in Greece for a few months or years, working remotely, have appeared.
“Greece is currently becoming one of the few countries where large technological giants are coming to invest in the country and its human resources, its location and its institutional options,” Minister of Digital Governance Kyriakos Pierrakakis said at The Fortune Greece CEO Initiative 2002 forum.
Digital Governance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis has succeeded in moving much of the business between Greek citizens and the state online, eliminating the once notorious, and slow-moving, queues in state agencies.
Almost all consumers (95%) say they are satisfied with their overall experience of online shopping, given that fraud phenomena hardly ever occur, per the sectoral research on e-commerce carried out by the Competition Commission.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who wrapped up a trip to Lithuania and Estonia Tuesday, declared that he had used Estonia’s digital e-government as a blueprint for his own reforms carried by the Ministry of Digital Governance and called on Estonian technology firms to invest in Greece because a lot more things remain to be done for Greece to embrace the digital age.
The issue of civil servants’ digital skills will become more urgent in the near future, Interior Minister Makis Voridis told the Olympia Forum III on Thursday.
Months into the pandemic, Jess Romano moved from California to Croatia, becoming the third person to receive that country’s “digital nomad” visa when it launched in 2021.
Naxos is emerging as a pioneer of the “Smart Island” digital transformation program, which is the product of collaboration between Amazon Web Services and more than 20 Greek and multinational companies.
Cosmote Payments, an OTE Group subsidiary, on Tuesday unveiled a pioneering digital application covering all daily payments and transactions, “Payzy by Cosmote.”
Described as a “one-stop shop” for people with disability, the National Disability Portal was launched on Monday in the presence of the prime minister.
Greece has the slowest fixed internet in Europe, despite the significant investments that have been made in recent years, while internet services remain among the most expensive in relation to people’s incomes, according to the annual report on the digital quality of life, compiled by cyber security company Surfshark.
Digital transformation, entrepreneurship, the development of modern skills, but also the financing that is making the new green and digital era a reality dominated discussions at the 2nd Digital Beach Summit held on the largest beach in Europe, Monolithi in Preveza, western Greece at the end of last week.
Thousands of Greek citizens have snapped up a new app launched by the Digital Governance Ministry to put their identification cards and driving licenses on their mobile phones and dispense with having to carry them around everywhere.
