Eric Greitens Quotes

Americans really expect to interact with our government digitally.

If we're the country that makes Amazon and Facebook and Twitter, why can't the federal government have websites and digital services that are awesome?

The E-government cabinet, E-health services, online voting, online pre-filled tax returns, e-mobile parking, are all examples of Estonian innovation, but far more importantly, they are examples of the transformative power of intensive and extensive use of Information Technology in the public sector.

Cities are ripe for redesign, and many are already well on that path. Cloud-based networks that provide easy and inexpensive access to and tracking of services like transportation, energy, waste management, bill pay, citizen engagement and more are testing and enriching their services.

You will not be able to meet the Millennium Development goals in health without e-health, in education without e-education, and government services will not be able to be provided without e-government services.

There's huge opportunities to continue to improve efficiency in the way the government operates and improve the way government provides services to its citizens.

E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.

We will leverage technology to collaborate with the government in its e-governance initiatives.

Our people are willing to work with the government on new technologies. Now, it's a habit; every Estonian looks at it as part of our national identity. We understand that this allows us to provide better services to our people than our money would allow.

The government should urgently speed its adoption of AI to reduce the amount of time individuals spend unnecessarily interacting with the government and increase the speed of government response to citizens.

Harnessing e-governance moves the access to governance from long queues at offices to any internet point. In Gujarat, our UN awarded widely acclaimed SWAGAT e-governance system ensures that long-term grievances are resolved through use of online applications and video-conferencing across all district and block offices.

There's a digital revolution taking place both in and out of government in favor of open-sourced data, innovation, and collaboration.

The number one objective is that people who make the investment in digitization, whether they are governments or service providers, get a reasonable return.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

Of course we should harness IT to strengthen public protection and public service delivery.

As the president of Estonia, I represent the only truly digital society which actually has a state; almost all our citizens' interactions with the government, including voting, can be done securely online, and our 'e-residents' can incorporate and run their businesses in Estonia without ever having to set foot here.

Name any issue in the world, I can tell you how technology is intertwined with it. I can tell you how technology will make it better. How it can make it worse. It needs to be part of everything that we do, whether you are a government or a company or a citizen.

I dream of a Digital India where Government services are easily and efficiently available to citizens on Mobile devices.

In a vast & huge country like India, e-governance is the only way for effective delivery unto the last.

E-governance is the only way to move from good governance to proactive pro-people good governance (P2G2).

I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.

We have an electronic democracy.

The United States is running a 21st century government under 1940s rules.

We want the government of this country to realize that it has customers and that it has to be customer friendly.

Digital India is the only way for citizen empowerment, which can bring government transparency and accountability to citizens.