TO REBOOT the Greek economy, first check the system hardware is up to date. The parliament and civil service of the 鈥減ro-Euro鈥� government that could be needs an overhaul of its technology if it is to have any chance of transforming the country鈥檚 fortunes.
鈥淲hat Greece needs is significant support, not just financial, but technical,鈥� says , an economist at the London School of Economics鈥� Hellenic Observatory. 鈥淲e still don鈥檛 have computerisation for systems such as tax collection.鈥�
Greece needs a technological and organisational 鈥渂ig bang鈥� to computerise and connect all 14 ministries so they can begin recording data and statistics. Monastiriotis says the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development that without such a boost, the government would be powerless to transform Greece into the modern state demanded by its creditors.
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