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Video Description

Type: KIHASA Policy Featurette

Topic: Digital Welfare State: A New Welfare Paradigm?

Original video: [KIHASA Policy Talk Showl] "Digital Welfare State and Innovation in AI Welfare and Care (Part 1)"

Transcript

Park:

I would like to ask our experts how we might think of what we call the ‘digital welfare state.’

Dr. Noh Dae-myung, would you like to begin?

Noh:

I will address this from two perspectives. If asked whether the digital welfare state represents a new welfare paradigm distinct from the existing one, my answer would be both yes and no.

On the one hand, digital welfare has an instrumental significance: digital technologies―namely computers, various forms of hardware, data, and, more recently, Artificial Intelligence―can serve as policy tools that substantially enhance existing welfare delivery systems and methods of resource allocation.

On the other hand, a digital welfare state enables greater predictability of risks through data and allows for a more effective reorganization of response strategies. From a longer-term perspective, it holds considerable potential to drive innovation across the current welfare paradigm, from resource mobilization to allocation, and may therefore be viewed as pointing toward a new welfare paradigm.