Citizen guide and digital services for the Attica region

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Greece

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Citizen Guide and Digital Services for the Attica Region is a project aimed at tackling the barriers related to paper bureaucracy in the Greek public sector. The Attica region consists of seven separate subregions with separate administrations. The administrative departments produce documentation without using standard templates, thus complicating some administrative processes for both public sector workers and citizens.

As a solution, the project created an online platform, complemented by a mobile application, for providing information and digital services to citizens. They can submit requests from their PC or other mobile devices; if they have any barriers to accessing the platform, they can submit requests by calling the dedicated departments of the Attica Region Organisation. The department, after processing the request, sends back a fully or partly digital document. Citizens receive a ticket ID, ensuring transparency about time, actions and employees processing the request.

The platform is currently fully functional and provides information for more than 500 procedures, and 220 services are offered digitally. The most important result is the swift processing of cases requested by citizens and enterprises; the citizens are served digitally without a physical presence in the buildings. The application can offer any digital procedure of any department or organisation, provided that any institutional (especially law) problems have been solved.

The responses to citizens’ requests have become faster, and the processing of requests now has fewer mistakes. The procedures are parameterised; hence, the request is delivered according to thematic and spatial jurisdiction.

The total number of requests via the system is now at more than 24,500, since July 2017. The first year of innovation had only 680 requests, but the number was boosted as more people trusted the platform. Since the process of digital transformation is in constant development, more procedures can be undertaken digitally, and the numbers of requests rise daily.

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