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  1. The digital welfare state is either already a reality or emerging in many countries across the globe. In these states, systems of social protection and assistance are increasingly driven by digital data and technologies that are used to automate, predict, identify, surveil, detect, target and punish. In the present report, the irresistible attractions for Governments to move in this direction ...
    • World stumbling zombie-like into a digital welfare dystopia, warns UN ...

      The digital welfare state is commonly presented as an altruistic and noble enterprise designed to ensure that citizens benefit from new technologies, experience more efficient government, and enjoy higher levels of well-being. But, Alston said, the digitization of welfare systems has very often been used to promote deep reductions in the ...

  2. digitalfreedomfund.org

    In order to grasp the implications of the "digital welfare state," it is useful to take a step back and first define and determine the scope of the "welfare state" itself. The term "welfare state" is a catch-all, and sometimes contentious, term used to describe policies, programmes and practices that are aimed at providing social ...
  3. This study aims to discuss the inherent risks of this automatization, particularly those associated with the discrimination, exclusion and inequality problem, which the authors package under the theoretical umbrella of a digital welfare state (DWS).,This conceptual article reviews the literature on the welfare DWS, with an empirical focus on ...
  4. The digital welfare state is commonly presented as an altruistic and noble enterprise designed to ensure that citizens benefit from new technologies, experience more efficient government, and enjoy higher levels of well-being. But, Alston said, the digitization of welfare systems has very often been used to promote deep reductions in the ...
  5. journals.sagepub.com

    Jul 26, 2024Understanding and exposing these current realities is an urgent task of critical scholarship. Yet the digital welfare state presents a challenging domain for research as it sits at the intersection of two sizeable bodies of social science investigation - digital technologies and social policy/welfare states - both of which are marginal to mainstream sociology, and involve a broad spectrum ...
  6. openglobalrights.org

    Today's digital welfare state is often underpinned by the starting assumption that the individual is not a rights-holder but an applicant. In other words, the embrace of the digital welfare state is presented as an altruistic and noble enterprise designed to ensure that citizens benefit from new technologies, experience more efficient ...
  7. ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk

    So, what are 'digital welfare states' and the human rights concerns to which they give rise? While an ambiguous concept, the 'welfare state' commonly describes a set of social programs and institutions which aim to provide protection against the negative consequences of living in capitalist economies. In its most developed form, the ...
  8. digitalfreedomfund.org

    Our digital welfare state litigation strategy is the outcome of this process. A Litigation Strategy on the Digital Welfare State. 28 August 2020. The purpose of this litigation strategy is to inspire deeper conversations on how strategic litigation could be used as part of a broader strategy to address the harms of the digital welfare state ...
  9. digitalfreedomfund.org

    The rise of the "digital welfare state", which the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Professor Philip Alston also mentions in a recent thematic report, has become an increasingly urgent topic of debate. The Promise of Strategic Litigation.
  10. dbresearch.com

    basis of the welfare state.This unfavourable scenario might result in great budget gaps, as, assuming that effective corporate tax rates stay low, additional ... security system and undermines the welfare state. Fears that digital structural change might divide society into winners and losers are grounded mainly on technology-related ...
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