ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the digitalization process at the same time, technological innovations, such as the metaverse, generate new environments of social interaction, in which new opportunities and new risks emerge for social inclusion and the personal, group, and community trajectory of fellow citizens. Digital social work is a new specialization that responds to the transformation of our increasingly digitalized institutions, and to the modification of our interaction spaces, in which online sociability, or virtual interaction, plays an increasingly relevant role. In light of thee near-future changes, information- and skills-sharing are vital steps in preparing social workers to work in and to contribute to innovations in digital social work practices as creative thinkers, agile leaders, and competent, reflective practitioners.
