The principle of participation in the Venezuelan social security system to boost the knowledge management El principio de la participación en el sistema de seguridad social venezolano para impulsar la gestión del conocimiento

Abstract

People's active participation is an operative principle of social security system that  allows the implementation of social policy in the social protection subsystems. To date in Venezuela such systems have followed a bureaucratic, hierarchical and technocratic model, whose procedures do not allow people to shape social security policies, nor having control over them. For the last 20 years people have been receiving charity treatments while the State has been  reating parallel protection systems called ‘missions’ or ‘great missions’, weakening systems such as healthcare or housing, as well as employment and salary rates. Civic engagement leads to an effective, inclusive, equitable and fair social security system. Therefore, it is possible to move from bureaucratization to a democratic, decentralized and governance model that
allows knowledge management from a collective perspective, and towards the social appropriation of the doctrinal principles of social security as a culture and way of life in society.