Greece lags behind most of Europe when it comes to plugging into the digital economy. It is a humbling 26th out of 28 European Union countries surveyed by the European Commission’s Digital Economy Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI).
The survey found that Greece had moved up one spot up from last year when it was in a dismal 27th position.
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While the Greek government has earmarked digital transformation of the state as a priority, the country has the lowest performance of any member government even in the fields of e-government and e-health.
The eGovernment Benchmark 2019 index shows that in Greece the digitalisation of public services is at 51 percent of all services – the EU average is 68 percent.
The private sector is also catching on to the need to catch up with 54 percent of private companies surveyed saying that they would focus on digital innovation next year, a five percent increase on last year.