DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF CENTRES FOR SOCIAL WORK IN MONTENEGRO

Ida Kolinović

Abstract

The paper presents the Social Welfare Information System (SWIS) – Social Card, digital transformation of centres for social work in the service of the social and child protection system reform in Montenegro and the benefits of this system for beneficiaries, employees in centres for social work and policy makers. It is a capital project of the Montenegrin Government that enabled the implementation of the reform of the social and child protection system, with the aim of providing the highest quality of social protection for the poor and socially endangered, in the area of material benefits and social and child protection services. The development and introduction of this software required intensive cooperation of experts, employees in the field of social and child protection, software company S&T (Serbia and Montenegro), UNDP and the Directorate for Informatics and Analytical and Statistical Affairs of the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare.

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