“It is a good start for the upcoming projects that will provide important digital solutions for the service to citizens and businesses by the State,” pointed out Stavros Asthenidis, the General Director of Information Society during the presentation of the new information system “OpenBusiness” for the licensing and supervision of economic activity in Greece.
The event was held at the Cultural Centre of the Municipality of Athens by the General Secretariat for Industry of the Ministry of Development and Information Society SA.
It was attended by the Minister of Development, Mr Takis Theodorikakos, the Deputy Minister of Development, Responsible for Industry, Mrs. Anna Mani-Papadimitriou and the General Secretary for Industry, Mrs. Vasiliki (Vicky) Loizou. Everyone praised the importance of the project and warmly thanked Information Society, the central hub of the Ministry of Digital Governance for the implementation of digital transformation projects, for its contribution to “OpenBusiness”.
The Managing Director of Information Society, Mr Stavros Asthenidis pointed out in his address:
I would like to sincerely thank the staff of the General Secretariat for Industry and the Directorate of Regulatory Business Environment of the Ministry of Development, the contractor company, but also Information Society, who believed in this project and completed it 100%.
Open Business is a project that has a key effect on the operation of particularly critical features of the country in terms of business licensing and the operation of entrepreneurship and industry. And of course, it is one of the first projects that we undertook when, in the 1st term of the government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, we were called upon to implement with regard to the goal of the digital reform of the state and its bodies.
So, in this context, we are happy to deliver a project that changes the landscape, and the way businesses will interact as needed with the Greek State, and I think that it signals a change that will accordingly and further continue in the future. Technology makes progress and evolves with artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, concepts that come up in every conversation.
In all these fields of action, we are able to offer many new possibilities to the Greek state for the evaluation of procedures and the service to citizens and businesses.