Sessione 4 - Digital Transformation in the Welfare State: drivers and effects
Elenco sessioni 2024
Visite: 410
Coordinatori/coordinatrici di sessione: David Natali (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa)-
Description
Digital transformation (DT) - digital technologies in production and consumption activities that rely on a significant dimension of data development and data analysis – is at the core of the debate on welfare reforms. Policymakers and stakeholders share the interest in a field that promises to improve efficacy, efficiency and sustainability of social policies. This is particularly the case in Europe, where Next Generation EU has put digital transformation at the core of the agenda for investment and reforms. Yet, actual improvements are still meagre.
The analysis of this contradiction is crucial to see the prospects of digital welfare. The session aims at providing room for the debate on the topic: what has been achieved so far and what is still to be improved in the context of new investments provided by the European Union.
The session welcome papers on different social and employment policies at national, regional and local level. Social services (e.g. healthcare and LTC) as well as labour market policies (active LMP in particular) and education (with the digitalization of teaching programmes especially in the aftermath of the pandemic crisis) provide ample evidence of DT. Further policy issues, like interoperability of big datasets that are at the base of more traditional social protection policies (pensions), are a further topic in need for investigation.
The session welcomes contributions – on Italy, comparative studies and/or EU and multi-level governance - from different disciplinary perspectives: economics, sociology, political science, law, administrative and management studies with a focus on long-term trends, recent reforms and investments (especially for Italy those related to the National Recovery and Resilience Plan). In particular, we we would like to shed light on the enablers and barriers of DT (namely, party politics, technology, administrative capacities, budgetary resources, etc.) and its effects (e.g. more effective governance, cost-containment, easier access; but also digital divide, increased workload for bureaucrats, etc.).
Contributi:
Cooperating against failure? Assessing administrative burden and co-production practices in the
digital implementation of minimum income policy in Spain.
Llorenç Soler-Buades (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona); Francisco Ferraioli (Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona)
The political determinants of digital transformation in the public administration: the case of
Italian regional administrations.
Gregorio Buzzelli (Politecnico di Torino); Edoardo Bressanelli (Sant’Anna School of Advanced
Studies); Dario Pio Muccilli (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies)
Supporting the digital transformation journey through monitoring systems in healthcare. A
comparative analysis of European empirical approaches.
Alessandro Vinci (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies); Andrea Vandelli (Sant’Anna School of
Advanced Studies); Alessia Caputo (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies); Milena Vainieri
(Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies)
In search of an enabling social environment for health robots. An exploratory study in Tuscany
Ivan Galligani (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies)
Winners and losers from technological change and preferences for redistribution
Simone Tonelli (University of Edinburgh)
Distributed:
Systematic Insights into Digital Transformation in Healthcare: A Comprehensive Review of
Reviews
Alessandro Vinci (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies); Davide Vicari, Manuela Furlan, Milena
Vainieri (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies)
Analytical perspectives on the ‘digital/digitised welfare state’: a scoping review
Carlotta Caciagli (Politecnico di Milano); Emma Garavaglia (Politecnico di Milano); Mino Novello
(Politecnico di Milano)
Digital platform regimes and new forms of welfare for digital contingent work
Massimo De Minicis (INAPP);
