Where?
Social and Technological Innovation Center of SIC4Change
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Organized by
SIC4Change: an NGO that uses social and technological innovation to solve social problems. In the migration field, it works in several areas:
- Supporting migrants for their socioeconomic inclusion in the Canary Islands through a technological platform and the creation of digital training pathways
- Changing migration narratives: Working with social agents to foster changes in perceptions about migration.
- Hacking the migration system: Initiatives to find digital alternatives to generate models that alter the migration model.
Ashoka Tech4Humanity: an Ashoka global initiative aimed at identifying and promoting spaces where technology contributes to solving social problems through entrepreneurship.
Event description
Digital public goods are opening new spaces for training, certification, and employment around the world. However, the application of how these goods could be used to foster economic migration, validate certification processes, or create legal contracts to facilitate the migration process has not been studied.
This session explored the potential of this approach, the challenges it presents, and the opportunities that could open up to enable economic migration, aiming to optimize cross-border talent and generate economic benefits for all parties. During the session, three ideas with the potential to “hack” migration systems using digital public goods were presented, after which attendees participated in analyzing the cases and helping to enable and realize them.
Speakers
José Mari Luzárraga – Tech4Humanity, Ashoka.
Kenny Clewett – Hello World, Ashoka.
Borja Monreal Gainza – SIC4Change.
Objectives of the event
Share the mindset of hacking the migration system, understood as the search for legal gaps to identify potential breaches to generate examples and models that visualize a different migration model and propose a working process to create these spaces and opportunities.
Share three potential hacking ideas and work together on their potential and implementation process.
Meeting Development
Mr. Clewett from Hello World stressed the importance of establishing links with public administrations to transform the migration reality and proposed a paradigm shift in four key areas:
- People on the move and host communities significantly contribute to the common good.
- Movement should be perceived as a shared experience and an opportunity for positive change.
- Recognize the value of knowledge, ideas, and resources created by people on the move and their communities.
- People on the move should cultivate fluid communities and identities as vehicles for positive change, sometimes spanning multiple geographies.
Mr. Luzárraga from Tech4Humanity emphasized the importance of generating ideas that open the possibility of alternative futures and new ways of managing migration, particularly in situations where people face double irregularity, both in documentation and employment.
Digital Commons and Digital Education to Facilitate Worker Mobility Agreements
An alternative to generating legal and safe migration routes is Worker Mobility Agreements. These agreements, made between countries of origin and destination to meet labor needs, require a complex structure of certification and training that aligns with the legal frameworks of the receiving country.
To facilitate these processes, it is proposed to work on creating a digital environment that facilitates the training and certification processes aligned with Worker Mobility Agreements. This process is funded for the ideation phase through the SEIMLab project of the European Union’s InterregMac call.
Platform Cooperatives as a Space for Migrant Regularization through Cooperative Entrepreneurship in the Care Sector
In Spain, there are over 500,000 undocumented migrants. It is estimated that 352,000 migrants work in the care sector, more than 50% of whom are in irregular situations. The Foreigners’ Law forces people to live in irregularity for a minimum of two years, and the regularization processes require indefinite work contracts, which are rare in the care sector.
Faced with this situation, there is the possibility of using the difficult-to-cover job catalog.
The problem is that this catalog is restricted to extremely specific professions. Various previous cases demonstrate that one of these professions is “entrepreneurs.” Creating a platform cooperative for caregivers could establish the legal basis for hiring and legalizing people in irregular situations, making them co-owners of the business and facilitating the cooperative’s documentation processing.
Share three potential hacking ideas and work together on their potential and implementation process.
Legal-tech Platform for Formalizing Legal Labor and Social Relationships
A condition for the regularization of migrants is a contract; however, to have a contract, one generally needs to be at the place of hiring and sign in person. However, with digital tools that allow the creation and signing of digital contracts, it is possible to create these contracts and sign them before migration so that migrants can arrive with verification and certification of having a job. What is needed for this to happen? Is it linked to skill certification, etc.?
Read more about Hacking the Migration System
an article by Borja Monreal Gaiza, Co-Director at SIC4 Change.
