Cyber readiness as an imperative for public governance in the digital age

What is it about?

In the context of a continued tendency to worldwide digitalization, public governance has witnessed a great number of transformations. Moreover, all new technologies have a dialectical nature. On the one hand, it represents a chance for all states to become more efficient, but on the other hand, all new technologies are an equivalent of threats to national security. That’s why it is vital for every national state to strengthen its national cybersecurity and, along with it, to have a sustainable capability to set its own agenda for developing of the national cyberspace. In the article the author produces a new concept of “cyber readiness”. Cyber readiness is a sustainable capability of a state to set cyberspace agenda and ensure national cybersecurity basing on sovereignty, proactive government actions and creation of a specific digital culture.

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Why is it important?

Readiness is an equivalent to the ability to operate despite any circumstance and consequence. This issue resurfaces especially in the digital age when the world is digital and people are digital. ITs is an essential part of people’s everyday life but they have a dual nature. Information technologies can bring destruction or solve many socio-economic problems. Moreover, every phenomenon is a synonym of advantages and disadvantages. Disadvantages, or threats and risks, can vary in scale. Individuals, social groups, states and world population can be objects that these threats aimed at. That is why the conception called ‘cyber readiness’ is under discussion. The term ‘cyber readiness’ is a new concept created by the authors to set the direction for development of national economies.