2020 is coming to an end and at ECIJA we would like to reflect on an extraordinarily complex year and make proposals for the new year, which is also full of uncertainties. In 2020 we have all been forced to adapt to a new reality, never before imagined. The health pandemic caused by the COVID-19 pushed the world economy to the edge, requiring the digital acceleration of many businesses, which have seen this channel as their only path in order to survive. Not in vain, the data show that it is the deeply digitalized companies that have best overcome the crisis. However, 80% of companies have not yet been able to take the path towards the digital world.
At ECIJA, we are confident in the opportunities that this pandemic will also bring; among them, the flourishing of a solid business network, of a digital nature, which will know how to overcome adversities and adapt to the new needs demanded by users. For this reason, and in our vocation of solidarity in helping, one more year we have decided that the gift of the Firm for these dates will not be for our clients and friends, but for those who now need it most, supporting those who have had to face challenges never before experienced.
With this objective, ECIJA launches the #Digital4All initiative to support organizations -regardless of their size and challenge- in their digitalization process towards a new reality. We are looking for five brave businesses that want to undertake this complex digitalization path by our side, helping them from any of the 15 countries where ECIJA is present to overcome the legal obstacles of such a mission.
As with your support you have made it possible, at this time we would like to thank you for the confidence you place in our project and our culture on a daily basis. Thank you for helping us and thank you for helping them too!
See the #Digital4All video in the following link.
Remember to choose your languague in the following survey:
Legal Basis
The #Digital4All project is an initiative of FUNDACIÓN ECIJA (hereinafter “FUNDACIÓN”) with its registered office in Torre de Cristal. Paseo de la Castellana, 259C, 28046 Madrid and provided with Tax Identification Code G87850285.
This programme is part of the firm’s global Corporate Social Responsibility project, with the intention of favouring the business fabric of the territories where ECIJA has offices both at European level (Portugal and Spain) and at Latin American level (Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Chile, Brazil, Ecuador, Panama and Honduras).
To this end, the FOUNDATION presents the #Digital4All programme, with which it will offer pro bono legal advice on digitisation, for a maximum period of eight (8) weeks, to a total of five (5) companies affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in order to help them overcome the obstacles of digitisation.
Who is it aimed at?
#Digital4All is aimed at companies and businesses of all sizes and sectors that meet the following requirements:
- Be a legally constituted company.
- Be incorporated in any of the countries where ECIJA has a presence: Portugal, Spain, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Chile, Brazil, Ecuador, Panama and Honduras.
Participation requirements
In order to participate in #Digital4All, companies must submit the material and documentation described below, within the time limit indicated and in the established form:
A video explaining why the company or business in the application should be selected (e.g. uniqueness, scalability, special vulnerability due to COVID-19, etc.). The video will have a maximum duration of five (5) minutes and must be shared through YouTube or Vimeo, by means of a link.
A description of the company’s legal advice needs, with a maximum length of 200 characters. The following points must be included in this description:
Explanation of the business;
How the candidate company wants to transform itself through digitalization;
Impact that a possible selection to form part of the programme would have on the business.
These materials must be shared through the following form, by clicking here.
Deadline for the presentation of applications
Companies can submit their applications, by sending the materials described, from 21 December 2020 to 21 January 2021 at 23:59h (UTC +1) inclusive.
Selection and communication of selected applications
A total of five (5) applications will be selected on the basis of criteria such as the following
The existence of a social and innovative component in the corporate purpose of the candidate company.
The relevance and impact of the company’s activity on a social, economic and/or environmental level.
Its vulnerability due to COVID-19.
To this end, all applications received which meet the requirements described will be assessed, and those applications which ECIJA considers to be most suitable for the objectives pursued by the programme will be selected. In this sense, the selection of applications will correspond exclusively to ECIJA, based on its own criteria, and no claims will be made by the participating companies as a result of this selection.
The decision will be communicated to the selected companies from February 10th. Additionally, the result may be published in ECIJA’s social networks and corporate website, as well as in the media.
Data Protection
The personal data requested from participants during the application process, or which is incorporated into the materials and documentation provided by the participants, will be processed by the FOUNDATION in accordance with current data protection regulations in order to assess the applications received and, where appropriate, communicate the decision regarding the selection of applications for the #Digital4All programme. The basis of the processing is the assessment of the applications received and the subsequent communication to the participants.
The data will be kept for as long as the participant’s relationship with the FOUNDATION is in force and, even after that, until any liabilities arising from it lapse.
Participants whose data is processed may exercise their rights of access, rectification, opposition, deletion, portability and limitation of processing by sending an e-mail to dpo@ecija.com.
Additional conditions applicable to selected companies
The selected companies must also comply with the following terms:
Confidentiality. The selected companies must sign a confidentiality agreement with ECIJA in order to avoid any misunderstanding.