The Council of Ministers yesterday approved draft laws and regulations on e-government.
Speaking to reporters at the Presidential Palace after the cabinet meeting, Undersecretary of State Konstantinos Petridis said that the cabinet had approved two bills and a set of regulations that are very important for e-government.
"Basically, in order to have e-government, the citizen must sign, certify and send his applications or transactions with the Government, either through his computer or mobile phone," he said.
He also said that there are many laws concerning specific state services that require and require a personal signature, which is why very often the citizen becomes a "ball" between the State Services.
"At the moment," he said, "we have proceeded with the submission of a bill that harmonizes us with the corresponding European regulation that gives the same legal and judicial force to the electronic signature as to the handwritten one.
The next step, after this important bill that institutionally shields the effort for e-government, is to decide on the means of safeguarding e-signatures. That is, whether it will be server based, whether it will be on usb, or whether it will be via mobile and there will be an international competition for the purchase of identifications and electronic signatures, which we estimate in the first stage at 100 thousand, in order to facilitate the lives of citizens .
"It's an important part of public service reform. I think we are slowly building the mosaic, we are building the e-government puzzle, and so we will move forward."
The President's twitter
The President of the Republic, moreover, in a comment on twitter wrote: "We are forming a legislative framework very important for e-government, with the aim of radically changing the charter of public administration."
Source: SigmaLive