Until ten years ago, one could not have imagined that government sessions would take place online, but the pandemic showed the opposite. And how it can work digitally. The public administration is ready, but I am not sure about the other actors in the society and why they refuse to go online, said Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Fatmir Bytyqi at today’s first panel at the 10th Macedonia 2025 Summit.

According to Bytyqi, digitization will be one of the capital investments projected in the Budget, and the benefits are yet to be felt.

Bytyqi said that the country will be a pioneer, ie the first in Southeast Europe, and even in Europe, in terms of the introduction of artificial intelligence assistants.

We have decided that for a small country like ours it is more than necessary to have a vision for at least 20 years and in that direction we are creating the measures. We are actually creating such measures, at least medium-term, because no process, especially the digitization in the public sector, business and citizens, should not be a short-term solution, said Bytyqi.

He said that the fact that the first panel of the Summit discussed digitization, shows that the need for this process is taken seriously by society.

Bytyqi says the Ministry of Information Society and Administration is planning to allocate 20m euros for digitization.