A scheme to incentivize young people to get the Covid vaccine has cost almost €86 million since it was set up six months ago, the government agency overseeing it said on Friday.
TECHNOLOGY
OTE Group will bring high-speed optical fiber (FTTH) services to 3 million households and businesses by 2027, raising its overall investment plan to more than 3 billion euros, stated Dominique Leroy, member of the Board of Management of Deutsche Telekom AG, responsible for the Board Area Europe, in an interview with the Athens-Macedonian News Agency.
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Last year, Norway reached a milestone. Only about 8% of new cars sold in the country ran purely on conventional gasoline or diesel fuel. Two-thirds of new cars sold were electric, and most of the rest were electric-and-gasoline hybrids.
Over a million Greek citizens have downloaded the government’s Covid Free GR Wallet app, Digital Governance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis tweeted on Tuesday.
E-commerce turnover in Greece will exceed €14 billion in 2021, a record, according to estimates announced at the 7th Economic Forum of the Hellenic Entrepreneurs Association.
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Greeks will be able to download a digital version of the full identity card and their driving license to their mobile phones by next Easter, Digital Governance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis revealed Thursday.
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The new version of the “Covid Free Wallet,” an online application that makes it easier for citizens to present their coronavirus vaccination or recovery certificates and their identity details when seeking admission to leisure and entertainment venues, is the first step toward a fully digital police identity.
5G Ventures announced that Latsco Family Office is the first investor of Greek interests that will participate in the first round of fundraising for Phaistos Investment Fund.
![OneTrust employees at the company headquarters in Sandy Springs, Ga., Dec. 9, 2021. OneTrust recently moved out of Atlanta proper into an archetypical tech office, filled with glass-walled conference rooms, exposed ductwork and wide bullpens. [David Walter Banks/The New York Times]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/NYT-startups-320x200.jpg)
In 2018, California lawmakers mandated that consumers be able to request their personal data from companies through a toll-free number. And then a group of lawyers, engineers and salespeople for a company in Atlanta got to work.
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If you wake up early enough Saturday, you will be greeted with a spectacle of science and engineering: the launch to orbit of the James Webb Space Telescope.
The Digital Economy Forum 2021, themed “Digitalization: No longer a choice but a necessity,” takes place Monday with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis as the keynote speaker.
Besides sparing taxpayers hours of waiting at tax offices, the new electronic platforms already operating and those set to be launched in 2022 will allow the tax administration to monitor the data that corporations and individuals declare more easily and in more detail.
![The journalist Nidhi Razdan in New Delhi on Sept. 27, 2021. She was the target of a cybersecurity scam offering her a job at Harvard University. [Rebecca Conway/The New York Times]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/NYT-indian-scam-320x200.jpg)
Nidhi Razdan was all set to travel to Harvard University to start a new job, and a new life, when she received a stunning email.
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Digital Governance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis visited on Friday the city of Trikala, one of two Greek cities along with Athens to pilot the digitization of cities and citizens’ services through the European project Harmony, and said hailed it as a paradigm that serves as a model for the entire country.
“I recognize the importance of Greece as a growing technology hub for entrepreneurs and its potential for the development of new digital talent,” Denis Terrien, Salesforce’s CEO for the Southern European market, tells Kathimerini.
As part of the effort to digitally transform public sector services, the Digital Governance Ministry on Thursday presented the so-called National Register of Procedures, which will lay out in detail the necessary steps to complete transactions with the state, including required documents and how they will be submitted.
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