Resilience

Resilience starts before the crisis.

The Netherlands is under increasing pressure from geopolitical tensions, hybrid threats, climate change, cyber attacks, and undermining. Resilience is more urgent than ever: it requires self-reliant citizens, resilient organizations, and trust in vital processes and institutions. Governments, municipalities, and businesses need to invest in awareness, preparation, collaboration, and concrete improvement to build a truly resilient society.

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We help to keep the Netherlands safe: now and in the future.

Dialogic supports governments, implementation organizations, and vital providers in various ways to increase the resilience of the Netherlands, both in safeguarding security and strengthening resilience. We are particularly focused on the following themes:

Within (digital) resilience, the theme of strategic autonomy often plays a significant role. For policymakers, there is a crucial trade-off here with significant economic consequences. On one hand, the Netherlands must become less dependent on foreign providers or technologies. On the other hand, we want to continue using technologies and services that are not available within the Netherlands. Additionally, there are sometimes high transition costs when reducing dependencies, and transitioning can introduce short-term risks depending on the case.

Policy research can help to better understand this trade-off and eventually shape better policies. It often starts with a thorough risk analysis of current dependencies. Following this, a scenario analysis and an inventory of alternatives can determine how this will develop in the future. Based on this, an action plan can be formulated to reduce dependencies where necessary. This may include measures that, alongside positively impacting resilience, can also have positive economic effects. For example, think of competition-stimulating policies in the context of (for instance) European DMA and DSA legislation.

Our experience

A large portion of the research in this domain is confidential and therefore not available on our website. Upon request, we can provide you with general information about it. Public research in the field of resilience can be found below.

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