A Swedish welfarelab - pre-study
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | Sveriges Kommuner och Landsting - Center för eSamhället |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 400 000 |
| Project duration | December 2013 - July 2014 |
| Status | Completed |
Purpose and goal
The ultimate purpose is to reap digitization opportunities in solutions that meet welfare challenges for municipalities and county councils. In practice, this means a business that will make the road shorter, from innovation to implementation in the community. With a strong focus on implementation rather than on innovation, this is a natural next step for development and test beds. The purpose of the feasibility study has been to generate support through interaction with stakeholders in government agencies and organizations, local governments, supplier companies, and academia.
Results and expected effects
During the feasibility study, an overview of needs in municipalities have been identified. To meet the needs an operation is proposed with six distinct tasks to enhance the implementation of welfare technology in local governments. arena for the exchange of experiences promote interest and gather knowledge arena for new skills and new business models insight, education and debate methods and process legal and operations support The next step is to gather twenty interested municipalities that can quickly work on a practical implementation of welfare technology.
Approach and implementation
The feasibility study has been characterized by interaction with players in welfare technology. In a following stage appropriate solutions were identified through workshops with both supplier companies and municipalities. In parallel, a concept for the ´welfare lab´ has been presented and discussed with government agencies and organizations, supplier companies and municipalities, and with academia. A special seminar on the preliminary study was conducted in Almedalen in July in 2014.