40 thousand workers are missing due to the digitization of state records

About 200 of his works Digital update to general With a value of 1.3 billion euros contracted by the Ministry in recent years Digital Management Information Society (Information Society). Digital projects have almost the same value, and their implementation begins gradually, with their timely and successful completion until 2025 being the next big bet that determines the expenditure of their resources. Recovery Fund. However, difficulties in its timely implementation, such as lack of human resources, are numerous.

“Proper implementation, i.e. getting quality projects fully functional, is the next big challenge. It is estimated that contractors will need to hire around 20,000 skilled workers for projects related to digitization of justice records alone. Stavros Athenidis reports to “K”., Managing Director of the Information Society, the body that has proposed projects worth more than 2 billion euros in the past four years and ensures that these projects are implemented without delay. The group of projects with the general title e-Justice and a budget of more than 200 million euros aims to accelerate the administration of justice and the implementation of the e-trial institution, including four main projects.

One of them concerns her Digitizing files About 300,000 pages in 368 courts and prosecutor’s offices across Greece. It is estimated that just to digitize 1.4 billion pages in most state agencies – a small fraction of the total digital projects – 40 thousand employees will be needed. Companies are already facing staff shortages, but estimate, as representatives of some of them reported, that they will be able to cover necessary positions.

“In the past four years, we have contracted almost 200 projects, while out of a total of 250 tenders there are appeals on only 1.9% of them, that is, for only five tenders. “This is unusual at the state level and is due, to some extent, to the fact The number of digital projects we auction is large and have received funding,” explains Mr. Athenidis.

He adds, “At the top of the interventions comes Electronic justice, the digital transformation of justice, which will allow accelerating its granting. Also in the field of health, the electronic patient file and digital medical certificates are advancing, while HDIKA is implementing the modernization of the technological infrastructure of hospitals. There was a similar intervention 15 years ago,” says Mr. Astinidis.

The list of projects, the goal of whose implementation should be achieved in a timely manner, includes the reform of the financial system in the central administration and the rest of the general government (Gov ERP), the only digital infrastructure for serving citizens and companies (CRM), as well as a series of small projects aimed at modernization. Technology for public bodies. One of the next major projects that is in the consultation stage concerns the establishment of a system to monitor the movement of vehicles and containers. “It is a complex and widespread project across the country, which will contribute to the fight against tax evasion and smuggling,” explains Director General of the Information Society, Stavros Astinidis.