New circumstances and new opportunities for development, prosperity and quality of life. Information and communications technologies (ICT) are changing how we work, have fun, communicate, do business and are altering the very basis of economic competition.

They are a tool for modernising the State and business competitiveness, creating new working methods, new skills, and the need for ongoing learning and changes to the educational system.

At the same time, they allow for improvements in health-care, welfare and environmental services and contribute to highlighting the cultural heritage of this land and the Greek language. 

The State’s aim is that the Information Society which is emerging is a society for all, without discrimination for those with and those without information, where the rights of the citizen are protected as are the freedom of expression and access to information. 

The overall Information Society strategy rests on the following core principles:

• Equal opportunities and access for all 
• Creating an environment for growing innovation and increasing business initiative 
• Protecting individual freedoms and the operation of democratic institutions.

Based on these principles, the following targets have been set. Implementation of these requires cooperation between the public and private sectors in a civic society where citizens participate in shaping the nature of the Information Society.

• Improvements in services to citizens and businesses (modernising how the State operates, greater transparency)
• Better quality of life (ICT applications in the health and welfare, environment and transport sectors). 
• An education system and research adapted to the digital age (education employing new technologies, networking of schools and universities).
• Dynamic economic growth (creation of new businesses, emergence of new sectors, increased productivity and competitiveness).
• Increased employment (new jobs, improvements and adjustments to human resource skills to cover new labour market needs, development of new forms of work such as tele-working).
• Highlighting and promoting Greek culture via new media (documenting the cultural heritage, protecting the Greek language, contact with Greeks abroad).
• Utilising new technologies in the mass media (suitable regulatory framework, ensuring diversity of views and freedom of expression).
• Equal participation of the regions in the global arena (decentralisation, encouraging initiatives at regional and local level).
• Developing national communications infrastructure (developmental initiatives, deregulation of telecommunications, universal services). 
• Protecting citizen and consumer rights, protecting competition conditions, democratic scrutiny in the digital age.