The work of social organizations is essential as a public service. However, the bureaucracy to which they have been exposed for some time has made it difficult for them to obtain the necessary resources.

Conference on digitization and digital simplification in the Third Social Sector
Conference on digitization and digital simplification in the Third Social Sector. 2018. License: BY-SA.

71% of the income of social entities in the metropolitan area of Barcelona comes from public administrations ; 19.3% of the financing is own; and 9.6% private, according to data from the latest Barometer of the third social sector of the Table of the Third Social Sector.

Some of the problems they face are that each administration has its own models, the platforms are not very intuitive, the support is non-existent or specific software is required. All this causes the technical barriers to multiply and organizations suffer daily the consequence of these excessive procedures, which affect their internal management and their services.

This is why m4Social will present on November 24 the event " Digital simplification in public administration: proposals from social entities" in collaboration with Lafede.cat - Organizations for Global Justice to offer tools and opportunities of improvement Also, good practices will be shared and a round table will be held with expert voices on how digitization should favor the relationship between the administration and social organizations. Prior registration is required at this link.