Consistent with its commitment to implement in a timely and qualitative manner the major digital projects planned and announced by it in previous years, affecting key sectors of Greek society, Information Society recently completed five of them.

All those projects are funded by the Operational Program ‘Public Sector Reform’, within the context of the NSRF 2014-2020, by the ESF and ERDF, as well as with national resources.

The ‘Digital Information Centre’ will fully meet the needs of the Secretariat-General for Communication and Information, thus becoming an important state-of-the-art tool for providing accurate and reliable information to Greek citizens and all government structures. It will also create a very important historical and open information database intended to preserve and utilise modern and contemporary history archives, with emphasis on media archives.

The ‘National Codification Portal’ will be the electronic hub of codified legislation, organised according to up-to-date standards and available to the public. It will also be the platform for standardising the entire legislative and regulatory flow, facilitating codification and supporting the functioning of better legislation structures, as described in the framework of the ‘National Strategy for the Codification and Reform of Greek Legislation 2018- 2020’.

Thanks to the development of Digital Services, the digitisation of the hardcopy archive, and the unified Interoperability Services, the ‘Army Pension Fund’ now has its own integrated information system and web portal in cooperation with the Special Branch for Financial Aid to Army Pensioners (EKOEMS), the Special Army Mutual Assistance Account (ELOAS) and the Mutual Assistance Fund for Army Pension Fund Employees (TAYMTS).

The ‘Digital Transformation of Consular Services Processes’ has improved the services provided to citizens by the 125 Greek Consulates in 85 countries around the world. The project includes a Digital Service for the management of requests filed by citizens, as well as a Virtual Assistant, which has already been integrated into the websites of all Greek consular authorities and provides written answers to questions asked by citizens in Greek, English and 17 other languages, using AI.

Finally, thanks to the ‘Electronic Services of the National Printing House’ , the procedures for receiving, processing and publishing the Hellenic Government Gazette issues have been redesigned, simplified and standardised by the development of a new state-of-the-art information system. Thus, a new environment is set up for providing services to citizens and organisations, marked with customised features, security and user-friendliness, as well as a sophisticated and faster Hellenic Government Gazette search functionality for the general public, to fully cover the information needs of interested parties.

The CEO of Information Society SA, Mr Stavros Asthenidis said: ‘We feel really satisfied whenever we complete a project, as it is an achievement in the context of our strategic goal. I would like to thank all our partners and contractors for contributing to the successful outcome of our efforts. Our aim is to step up our efforts even more, to take Greece to an even higher digital level, venturing even greater leaps into the future.’