Digital preservation

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]

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. 

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.

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.

Describing technology as a catalyst for the return to normalcy and recovery, Mr. Matt Britten, president of Google for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, spoke exclusively to "Vima" about the upheavals brought about by the pandemic, the jobs of the "future" and Google's goal to shield the world from the digital challenges of the day after.

The chairman of the Authority for Romania's Digitization (ADR), Octavian Oprea, and the head of the Code4Romania Board of Directors, Bogdan Ivanel, signed on Monday, March 8, a Partnership Agreement which consolidates the cooperation between the two organizations for the digitization of the public administration of Romania.

The coronavirus epidemic has expedited the modernization of the state and even the private sector. We have all seen the digitization of many public services, the growing and efficient use of the internet, the expansion of teleworking, the successful implementation of online education, while at the same time appreciating the resilience of the National Healthcare System.

Half of employers in Bulgaria say that most of their staff have very good digital skills, BNR reported.

Turkey's Bilkent University has taken a lead in digitizing a maximum number of publications and making them available to readers across the globe free of cost.

With increased interest from the business, a conference „The Digital World - Today and Tomorrow" was held with participants from the Black Sea region.