TIRANA, Feb 1 /ATA/ – Prime Minister Edi Rama stated Saturday that artificial intelligence will be employed in the country’s public procurement system in the first half of his fourth term in office in a bid to combat corruption in Albania.
In his speech at the Socialist Youth Congress for 2030 Albania, the government head underlined that the use artificial intelligence in public procurement will crack down on corruption, calling it the next phase of his government’s digital transformation.
“In the first half of our fourth term, Albania will become the European country introducing the artificial intelligence to the public procurement and tenders, delivering a fatal blow to corruption and mismanagement, the very same knockout e-Albania delivered to window services, bribes and long queues of people just to obtain or a certificates,” PM Rama said, adding that over 47 million public services have been delivered online since the government platform was launched a few years ago.
PM Rama underlined that AI has also been employed in the EU accession negotiations process, saying that a model developed by the National Agency for Information Society in collaboration with Microsoft would allow for alignment of the national legislation with the European Union acqui in the next two years, a process – according to him – that has taken at least seven years for other countries to complete.
The government head also said that the new technology horizon is creating fresh perspective of high-paying jobs for young people.
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