International Social Science Journal (Chinese Edition)

No.3, 2022

Social security for the digital age:  addressing the new challenges and opportunities for social security systems

(Abstract)

Dominique La Salle and Greta Cartoceti

Digital technologies now permeate all aspects of human activities. These technologies are creating entirely new economic sectors. For example, the digital platforms instantly match supply and demand for products and services at a very low cost, creating new demands and new opportunities. Yet at the same time, it changes the nature of work by breaking the traditional employer-employee relationship and fragmenting work into a series of tasks. This article examines how social security institutions could leverage the opportunities and meet the challenges brought about by the emerging digital economy. To do so, it first sets out the role that we expect social security to play; then it examines how the digital economy either supports or impedes social security from playing these roles.