WEBFARE: DIGITAL WELFARE AS A HERITAGE OF HUMANITY

In the age of artificial intelligence and Big Tech, Europe increasingly looks like the earthenware pot among iron ones, caught between the United States and China. Faced with fears that technology will take away jobs, Webfare, the digital welfare project born in Turin, starts from the observation that platforms and artificial intelligence turn our every action online into economic value, and proposes a new idea of welfare and citizenship. The project aims to offer a third way with respect to both the American model (which favours a few private platforms) and the Chinese one (in which data become instruments of State control). The data produced by citizens can support well-being, services, knowledge and new forms of democratic participation, thus offering a European path to the digital economy.