Digitization

Documents related to the settlement of Turks from abroad are the most accessed in the online document scanning system of state archives, officials told state-run Anadolu Agency on Aug. 18.

Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE) is advancing the digitization of the export finalization process with the implementation of a digital notification system for the exit of goods from the customs territory of the European Union, using a digital message (IE590) sent to the ICISnet system.

The fact that the digitization of the inconceivably exhausting bureaucracy for the Greek citizen has simplified procedures and accelerated daily operations in the private and public sector, offering time and cost savings, is undeniable. However, common practices are not the best recipe in all areas.

Maria Kamilaki, linguist and deputy head of the General Directorate of Electronic Administration, Library and Publications at the Hellenic Parliament gave Kathimerini a guided tour through the history of the library and its archives. The public will have access to this rich and valuable archival material as of September, when its digitization is completed. [Nikos Kokkalias]

The Hellenic Land Registry has decided to close 139 offices across the country, with their services transferred to the nearest branch or office of the registry. Less than 26 mortgage offices remain to be closed. The challenge is to ensure their smooth integration, as some 150,000 pending cases have also been "transferred."       

People have experienced the benefit from the digitization of state services in their daily lives. No reason has been presented for anyone to be suspicious of the completion of this great reform. 

Digital speed and transparency in the real estate market will ultimately benefit those actors who are now reacting. 

If in recent years the state has managed to grab the low-hanging fruit, i.e. to achieve some easy victories in the digitization of the state, it is now called upon to target the fruit at the highest point of the tree.

The widespread irregularities detected thanks to the first implementation of the electronic identity system for properties prove that digitization has already yielded very important results in areas where the state was previously considered incorrigible.

The Single Social Security Entity is entering a new digitization phase, as seven reforms are already under way which, when completed, are expected to turn EFKA into a truly modern organization.

Greece has taken giant leaps in recent years in the bid to abolish paper in the public sector and the notorious inconveniences it created in transactions between citizens and state services.