Until recently, they were the preferred place for online shopping and booking holidays or means of transport. Today, they increasingly serve as social providers and are also increasingly used to find doctors, babysitters, psychologists, social and educational services. In Italy there are 137 welfare platforms active on the national territory: 59 operate in the health sector, and of these 32 are specialized in psychological services; 10 in the field of education and childcare; 10 in health and social care; 58 are multi-sectoral. If we look at the type, 82 platforms are created and operate in a strictly digital field, 29 operate in the corporate welfare sector, providing services and fringe benefits to workers, and 26 digitize classic welfare services at a territorial level often provided by local authorities and third sector entities. Mapping the phenomenon, emphasizing this important national and sectoral peculiarity, is "Weplat - Welfare systems in the age of platforms", the research project funded by Fondazione Cariplo that has the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart as leader of a partnership made up of the University of Padua, the community design agency "Collaboriamo" and the network of social enterprises of the CGM National Consortium.