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How technology helped Serbia save 180 million sheets of paper in less than 4 years
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Author: Joe Myers, Writer, Formative Content
Serbia’s government has made digitalization a focus.
It began rolling out electronic e-government services in June 2017.
Since then, it estimates it has saved around 180 million sheets of A4 paper.
Digitalization and e-governance can seem like abstract concepts.
But, in a session at the World Economic Forum’s Global Technology Governance Summit, Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić gave an example of how going virtual can have a real-world impact. Technology
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