INFOSTRAG Team Participation in the Technology Helps Society Workshop
A workshop was held on Tuesday, October 6, 2015 at the Technopolis of the Municipality of Athens on the topic: The needs of society in the service of technology (Technology Helps Society).
The meeting was an initiative launched by the Association of Mobile Application Companies of Greece (SEKEE), in collaboration with the Free Software/Open Source Software Association (EELLAK), with the support of INNOVATHENS, the innovation and entrepreneurship hub of the Technopolis of the Municipality of Athens, an initiative that aims to assist the utilization of “mobile technologies” by the bodies of the Local Government.
The head of the INFOSTRAG team of the EELO/NTUA, Professor Yiannis Kalogirou, gave a speech at the Workshop.
View the Meeting Presentations
The start of this meeting was very positive, as a dialogue was opened between the Local Government executives and the companies of the ΣΕΚΕΕ, which develop innovative applications for the international market. The change of the existing logic of the custom development of special-purpose applications, which is time-consuming and inefficient, was discussed, with the model of using existing software where municipalities can use applications, share them, evaluate them. Also, the need to promote open data in practice was discussed so that the information created by the bodies can be reused and the services provided can be developed even further. At the same time, many interesting applications for systems for optimizing the management of Municipal services were presented, from waste collection to the management of social benefits (environment, cemeteries, etc.). Also, the new electronic payment services that allow citizens to pay their obligations to Municipalities but at the same time provide Municipalities with the ability to reward citizens’ consistency.