With the social platform (Sozialplattform), Germany is taking a visible step towards a digital welfare state.As a central portal, it enables online applications, a personalised \u2018social benefits finder\u2019 and online appointment bookings, among other things – proactive allocation of benefits by means of automatic data processing of linked registers is also being considered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, the implementation of the platform project is confronted with a traditionally decentralised welfare state governance and a resulting IT<\/abbr> landscape which is heavily fragmented due to the boundaries of federal states and municipalities with very different software solutions for the same welfare state services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Due to the lack of standardisation in German administrative digitilization, the dangers or potentials (depending on the point of view) of a central social platform that brings together previously disparate data does not appear to play a discernible role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n