Description
The Challenge launched by the Municipality of Siracusa aims to implement the digitalization and use of public services in the city and also to allow people living in conditions of ‘exclusion’ (due to their cultural, economic, gender, age, physical ‘status’) to have a better access to services and to other opportunities of welfare and social inclusion.
Having a better access and use to social services and to other existing opportunities means, in the longer term, to improve the quality of life and to reduce the existing gaps.
It is well known (i.e. microcredit) that even small but concrete opportunities (of jobs, care, etc.) can make the difference in a situation of (personal, economic, physical) crisis.
Siracusa – as all cities – provides social services and assistance. There is also an existing third sector ecosystem offering diverse opportunities of care.
But there is also a lack of information and connections that doesn’t allow people in need to benefit to the greater extent of these existing opportunities.