Sigoconectado: integrating experience and dignity

Author: Sigoconectado.

With the support of Santander X Explorer and UTN (Facultad Nacional Mendoza), we are launching our crowdfunding campaign.

This project was created to address a triple-impact challenge:

• The social exclusion of retirees.

• Their growing economic dependence.

• The cultural perception that marginalises them as the retired population.

In Argentina, more than 3.7 million retirees face insufficient income and multiple barriers to remaining active.

Sigoconectado restores their prominence, purpose, and autonomy. This initiative seeks to revalue the knowledge and experience of older adults, actively integrating them into the social and productive fabric (linked to SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities).

The project connects the accumulated expertise of this group with the demand for specific services, consultancy, and companionship, generating real opportunities for participation and economic improvement (SDG 8: Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, and SDG 1: End poverty). Rather than viewing them as a burden, we promote a new perspective on older adults: a community of people with valuable knowledge, motivation, and operational capacity, still ready to contribute (SDG 3: Good health and well-being).

The solution is a platform where pensioners can register their experience, skills, and availability, and users can hire their services for specific tasks.

With the launch of this campaign, we aim to finance the final development of the platform and improve its design adapted to older adults, as well as carry out communication and community actions to generate reach and social engagement.

Investing in Sigoconectado means supporting a fairer, more collaborative, and intergenerational system, where experience and knowledge remain in circulation and continue to create value.

Let’s close the gap… experience never retires!