{"id":10137,"date":"2026-06-11T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=10137"},"modified":"2026-06-11T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:15:00","slug":"gov-gr-is-a-deep-cut-for-the-benefit-of-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=10137","title":{"rendered":"gov.gr is a deep cut for the benefit of citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The great revolution of gov.gr<\/b> shows the value of <b>technology<\/b> when it is used for <b>convenience<\/b> rather than for other reasons by <b>working<\/b> with anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just a top <b>reform<\/b>. It doesn&#8217;t just bring <b>modernization<\/b> of the state. It is a profound breakthrough that has changed and is changing the landscape, particularly in what it means for a citizen to have a relationship with a <b>normal state<\/b> that deals with the needs of the citizen, not the other way around. <\/p>\n<p>On gov.gr&#8217;s birthday, <b>Kyriakos Mitsotakis <\/b>referred to the fact that every certificate, every document that is abolished in terms of the citizen&#8217;s contact with the state not only reduces <b>bureaucracy<\/b>, but is also a weapon against <b>corruption<\/b> and the possibility of the state operating at the expense of the citizen.<\/p>\n<p>The younger generations are living a small <b>miracle<\/b>. And if anyone thinks this is an exaggeration, they need only remember what we faced not so long ago, but up to <b>six years ago.<\/b> Let them remember the hours lost in transportation and<b> queues at public services<\/b> -in total- and in banks.<\/p>\n<p>Let him remember the queues, the waiting, the &#8230; moving not only to services but <b>within<\/b>the services themselves for a document, for a signature and for a <b>stamp<\/b>. Recall the familiar &#8220;get a <b>photocopy<\/b> across the street at the little shop&#8221; or &#8220;go to the third for approval and go down to the first, at the <b>counter<\/b>&#8221; etc.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe younger people could take a look at that <b>video<\/b> circulating on social media of the late <b>Harry Klynn<\/b> in a public office, it&#8217;s almost informative of prevailing situations, with whatever exaggeration of <b>satire<\/b> &#8211; actual satire &#8211; it contains.<\/p>\n<p>This great <b>revolution<\/b> &#8211; for it is a revolution &#8211; also shows the value of technology when it is of course used for the convenience of the citizen and not for other reasons by the instrumentalization of anonymity.<br \/>What the government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis has achieved is already an example. Let&#8217;s not forget what happened with <b>pandemic<\/b>, with <b>vaccines<\/b>, with travel. <\/p>\n<p>Things that we older people certainly saw, as we saw the <b>first mobile phones,<\/b>but younger people are using to their advantage and to the benefit of society as a whole, of development itself.<\/p>\n<p>The evidence is catalytic. By digitizing administrative processes &#8211; and tackling bureaucratic ones &#8211; in addition to the&#8230; mental well-being of citizens, we have an annual <b>resource saving<\/b> of more than <b>562 million euros.<\/b><br \/> And that&#8217;s not all. We are also talking about savings of over <b>205 million sheets of paper<\/b> but also a reduction in <b>carbon dioxide<\/b> emissions of over 43,000 tonnes. And all this with the digital services of gov.gr having exceeded <b>2,250,<\/b> as Kyriakos Pierrakakis, the pioneer of this development with a worthy successor, we should note, the current responsible minister <b>Dimitris Papastergiou.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s a dithyrambic article. How could it be otherwise for such a reform that, if anything, highlights what can be done when there is a plan and <b>vision<\/b> which, it should be noted, started with one of the key tools,<b>112<\/b>, and continued with the major breakthrough of <b>autonomous<\/b> <b>signing<\/b> to reach the current standards.<\/p>\n<p>The reaction of opposition parties, including Alexis Tsipras&#8217;s <b>ELAS,<\/b>is cause for concern. The <b>negation<\/b>, especially of a reform with a tangible and measurable result, is not a positive sign for something that defines itself as&#8230; new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great gov.gr revolution shows the value of technology when it is used for convenience and not for other reasons with &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}