resilience

Resilience is a concept that emerged in systems theory. C. S. Holling is the most influential theorist of resilience. He defines resilience as “the persistence of relationships within a system and is a measure of the ability of these systems to absorb changes of state variables, driving variables, and parameters, and still persist. In this definition resilience is the property of the system and persistence or probability of extinction is the result” (Holling, 1973, 17). For Holling, resilience means the capacity of a system to survive crises, disruptions, shocks, and attacks

– What is and how do we achieve a resilient digital democracy?

That a system shows resilience means in the language of systems theory, that in a situation of heavy disturbance and chaos, the system does not break down but continues to maintain itself, which means that its elements, the relations between the elements (the system’s structure), the system boundary the delimits the system from its environment, and the system’s dynamic (the behaviour that the elements in relation to each other show as reaction to inputs) continue to exist

– What is and how do we achieve a resilient digital democracy?