Completed to the Committee on Public Administration, Public Order and Justice, the epictenance of the draft law “Measures for the Implementation of Regulation (EU) 2022/868 (Act on Data Governance) – Appointment of a competent authority for the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2024/903 (Regulation for Interoperative Europe) – Electronic Implementation “My Street”” The draft law is introduced tomorrow into plenary. The New Democracy has been in favor of the bill. The opposition has stated, with the exception of the KKE and the new Left that have said they are voting against the principle.
By closing the second reading, the Minister of Digital Governance Dimitris Papastergiou He reiterated that the basic principle of this legislative initiative is that all data is now open except for those that are protected data. “It is an important bill because providers have their own data and it is not certain that data will be needed on the part of the Greek State to draw policies or products. The little ones are the ones who want data and the little ones mainly “puts on the game” of the European Regulation, so that everyone, in the context of a healthy competition, can access this data. Probably the big platforms have more data for us as users than the Greek State, “Papastergiou said, stressing that with the provisions set,” let’s see what terms this data will open, except for protected data “. The Ministry of Digital Governance becomes the point of contact, as he said, but without gathering that data but will be what will help the ministries one by one to give or justify why they will not give any data. Mr Papastergiou also referred to the mediation services and altruism bodies, “which will initiate procedures but in a very rigorous framework, which even provides for significant fines”, in cases of violations of the framework. “It is very important to know every body, research center or university, where it can derive data from and where to contact them,” Mr Papastergiou said and stood in the welfare of the draft law in order to build a national strategy for the data. The Ministry of Digital Governance, through the TAA, is already running the work of the big data, and therefore, from the summer, all ministries have been asked to state the problems they have and which could be solved by artificial intelligence or mechanical learning techniques, if they have data and what they are. At the same time, the work of open data and data classification, “categorizing” the risk of data, that is, who open and who are closed, “runs”.
The minister also referred to the signing of the contract for the construction of the national supercomputer, the “heart of the artificial intelligence system”, for the Greek State. As he said, it is a very important initiative to make artificial intelligence even more accessible to start -ups, for the Hellenic Technology System. Artificial intelligence wants infrastructure and wants data, said Mr. Papastergiou.
Referring to the provisions on the Citizen’s door, the Minister of Digital Government said that the aim is all documents, public messages, to gather and archive there. “It is also very important for cyber security reasons. Too many messages lately, they have been trying to fool citizens by email by email that the Greek State wants to contact them. The safest way is for public messages to pass through the Wallet, so that we can protect citizens and from such challenges, ”the digital governance minister said.