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Researcher sees declining trust in digital welfare as a serious problem. »It is crucial that we figure out why this shift has occurred«, it sounds.

Danes' trust in digital welfare plummets

Kollage: Mads D'Alterio Djervig. Originalfoto: Jens Dresling, Pexels.com
Kollage: Mads D'Alterio Djervig. Originalfoto: Jens Dresling, Pexels.com
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Digitalization of the welfare state is now happening despite the wishes of the Danish people, according to a new survey from the research project Algorithms, Data, and Democracy (ADD), which was published on Tuesday.

In the last survey in 2023, 58 percent of Danes agreed that digitalization of welfare benefits citizens. Now, only 42 percent share that trust. A minority.

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