ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates the relevance and potential impact of digitalization as an enabler of resilient, agile, and learning capabilities for societal security. Digitalization is vital in building organizations that can not only survive in complex and turbulent situations, but also excel in collective resilience, robustness, redundancy, and adaptability to ensure welfare, health care, food, water, energy, shelter, and security. In times of societal disruption, during naturally caused disasters or under antagonistic threat, digitalization can add new and reinforce existing capabilities for protection of both the society and its citizens by 1) expanding the number and variety of societal security approaches an entity can choose among (a larger, more diverse organizational and technological “toolkit”), 2) enabling entities to select and adopt the most appropriate societal security approach given the situation-specific circumstances, and 3) making individual approaches and the systems that support them more responsive, versatile, flexible, and resilient and making individuals and organizations more adaptive and innovative.
