ICSW International Conference on Participation, social welfare and local administration in times of AI

Online or in-person

from April, 24th 2025 to April, 25th 2025

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From a global perspective, citizens are at a crossroads in the field of social welfare and social services. On the one hand, social welfare is anchored in citizen participation, which allows us to participate in decision-making processes, and to exercise our rights. On the other hand, the accelerated digitalization of our administrations after the COVID-19 pandemic, is reinforced by the incorporation of Artificial Intelligence. In this process, people living in rural, depopulated and isolated environments cannot be left behind. This international conference, funded by Diputación de Málaga and with the collaboration of Ayuntamiento de Ronda and ICSW, will address the challenges of participation in the field of social welfare, with special reference to local government, the administration closest to the citizens and responsible for social services in many countries.

What path should we take, in a context where new technologies can reinforce participation, or can they reinforce hierarchization and surveillance? How to redefine and reinforce citizen participation in a context of digitization and Artificial Intelligence? What is our model of digitization? What are the key competencies we need to be effective in a social environment that is physical, but also reproduces itself in the metaverse? What role can co-design and co-creation methodologies play in the field of citizen participation? How to strengthen intergenerational solidarity? How to address the problems of isolation and loneliness in rural and isolated environments?

To this end, we are counting on the special participation of ICSW Europe, which is organizing one of the sessions of the conference. Based on the results of the international meeting on participation held in Ronda in 2024, the final version of the ICSW Ronda Declaration, the result of a long participatory process in 2024 and 2025, will also be presented at this conference.

Dates and places: From April, 24th 2025 to April, 25th 2025

Lugar: Convento de Santo Domingo, Ronda

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Hours: Teaching hours: 12

Online or in-person: You can choose in-person assistance or live or delayed online assistance.

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Program

Thursday, April, 24th 2025
- 10:00-10:20 h. Opening with the authorities of Diputación de Málaga and Ayuntamiento de Ronda
  - Antonio López Peláez
  - Antonia Ledesma Sánchez
- 10:20-11:00 h. Participation as a strategic resource: limitations and possibilities in the field of social welfare and local government.
  - Marta Lora-Tamayo Vallvé
- 11:00-11:50 h. Round table: Participation and well-being: perspectives from the IASSW, the IFSW and the ICSW
  - Sergei Zelenev
  - Antoinette Lombard
  - Joachim Mumba
- 12:00-12:45 h. Round table: Citizen participation and smart welfare
  - Paulo Pedroso
  - Sang Mok Suh
- 12:45-13:30 h. Volunteerism, participation, public agenda and social services
  - Patricia Ruíz Reyes
  - Peter Kenyon
- 13:30-14:30 h. Participation and social welfare in Finland and Morroco
  - Driss Guerraoui
  - Ronald Wiman
- 14:30-15:30 h. Rest
- 15:30-17:30 h. Round table: Participation and social welfare: a global perspective
  - Mr Sepesa Rasili
  - DLAMINI Thembinkosi
  - CHUA Hoi Wai
  - Amacodou DIOUF
  - Nicola Byrne
  - Ilda Lopes Rodrigues da Silva
  - Laila Refiana Said
  - Dr. Mahesh Chougule
  - Bachir Tamer
- 17:30-20:00 h. ICSW Europe Scientific Seminar: Participation and Social Welfare in Europe
  - Larisa Lacatus
  - Gloria Kirwan
  - Philippe Narval
Friday, April, 25th 2025
- 10:00-11:00 h. Round table: IA, participation and social protection
  - Antonio López Peláez
  - Gloria Kirwan
  - Joaquín Castillo de Mesa
- 11:00-12:00 h. Presentation of the ICSW Ronda Declaration
  - Sergei Zelenev
  - Ronald Wiman
- 12:00-12:30 h. Closing remarks
  - Antonio López Peláez
  - Joaquín Castillo de Mesa
- 12:30-13:00 h. Closing ceremony, with the authorities of the Provincial Council of Malaga
  - Antonio López Peláez
  - Joaquín Castillo de Mesa

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This activity allows to participate in-person assistance or live or delayed online assistance, without having to go to the center.

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Esta actividad permite al estudiante poder recibir la actividad desde su casa, sin necesidad de ir al centro.

Directed by

Joaquín Castillo de Mesa: Profesor titular de Trabajo Social (UMA)
Antonio López Peláez: Catedrático de Universidad UNED

Coordinated by

Gonzalo Cavero Cano: (ICSW – URJC)
Patricia Kalixto-Almaquer: UNIZAR
Paula Méndez Domínguez: UMA
Ramiro Viñuales Ferreiro: UNED

Lecturers

Nicola Byrne: CEO SHINE
Dr. Mahesh Chougule: Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Amacodou DIOUF: President ONG AHDIS
Driss Guerraoui: ICSW and Presidente del Conseil de la Concurrence, Marruecos
CHUA Hoi Wai: The Hong Kong Council of Social Service
Peter Kenyon: Bank Of Ideas | Community Consultancy
Gloria Kirwan: Organisation SHINE
Larisa Lacatus: Area Manager, Open Social Services, Stockholm City Mission
Antonia Ledesma Sánchez: Vicepresidenta tercera de la Diputación de Málaga - Área de Ciudadanía y Equilibrio territorial.
Antoinette Lombard: Presidenta de IASSW
Ilda Lopes Rodrigues da Silva: President CBCISS
Marta Lora-Tamayo Vallvé: Catedrática de Derecho Administrativo, UNED
Sang Mok Suh: ex Presidente de ICSW y ex Ministro de Trabajo y Seguridad Social del gobierno de Corea del Sur
Joachim Mumba: Presidente de IFSW
Philippe Narval: Disability Organisation "Lebenshilfe Austria"
Paulo Pedroso: ISCTE y ex Ministro de Trabajo del gobierno de Portugal
Mr Sepesa Rasili: The Fiji Council of Social Services
Laila Refiana Said: The Indonesia National Council on Social Welfare (INCSW/DNIKS)
Patricia Ruíz Reyes: Diputación de Málaga/UMA
Bachir Tamer: President CBCISS
DLAMINI Thembinkosi: Cango Executive Director
Ronald Wiman: ICSW vicepresident
Sergei Zelenev: Presidente de la ICSW

Comité Científico

Jerry Floersch: Rutgers University, (USA)
Neil Gilbert: Berkeley Social Welfare, UC Berkeley (USA)
Alice Gojová: University of Ostrava (Czech Republic)
Sona Kalenda: University of Ostrava (Czech Republic
Gloria Kirwan: RCSI (Ireland)
TSUI Ming Sum: SFU (Hong Kong, China)
María de las Olas Palma García: UMA
Reyhan Reyhan Atasü-Topcuoğlu: Hacettepe University. Ankara (Turkey)
Roberta Teresa di Rosa: University of Palermo (Italy)

Aimed at

Technical staff of the Málaga Provincial Council and local administrations, students, social work professionals, citizen participation, ICSW members, academia and the general public.

Goals

Address the most effective participation strategies in local Administration from a comparative perspective.
Analyze the demands of all the actors involved in the participatory processes from a co- design methodology.
Analyze good participatory practices in the international environment from a comparative perspective.
Develop the key elements of the Ronda Declaration on citizen participation.

Methodology