Meetup #12 — Remaking the welfare state

A welfare state takes responsibility for its people and supports them when in need. When costs are rising, but budgets aren’t, government needs to find efficiency gains to maintain social protection levels. A government-commissioned report recently recommended ways to modernise social and welfare services, making them more people-friendly and less bureaucratic. Meanwhile, small and large projects are underway to make benefits services more fair and easier to navigate, and to make the state overall more equitable.

At our March meetup, we will hear about what a modern, digitally transformed welfare state looks like. We will welcome the following speakers:

• Florian Theissing, Agora Digitale Transformation
• Björn Mohr, Technologiestiftung Berlin
• Anja Mayr & Jakob Häußermann, DigitalService des Bundes

CityLAB Berlin hosts the event in their stunning 1920s space, a former airport building.

All presentations will be given in English. Questions in the later discussion part can be raised either in English or German. Pictures and videos will be taken.

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Das CityLAB Berlin ist Gastgeber der Veranstaltung und lädt zu seinen beeindruckenden Räumlichkeiten im früheren Abfertigungsterminal des Flughafens Tempelhof ein.

Alle Vorträge werden in englischer Sprache gehalten. Fragen im anschließenden Diskussionsteil können sowohl auf Englisch als auch auf Deutsch gestellt werden. Es werden Video- und Fotoaufnahmen gemacht.