TY - CHAP
T1 - Capacity Maintenance during Global Disruptions
T2 - 10th Annual IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, GHTC 2020
AU - Gardner-Stephen, Paul
AU - Nabben, Kelsie
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - In an interconnected world, the challenge of maintaining interdependent systems during disasters and disruptive events, such as pandemics, bushfires, cyber-attacks and trade wars is imperative. The critical infrastructure capabilities to be sustained during disasters are many. COVID-19 has demonstrated how a public health threat can fracture the supply chains, including those that underpin digital systems, and degrade the capacity of software and hardware companies. Society must plan for such digital disruptions if it is to survive such shocks.We explore some of the reasons why this is necessary, including the issue of cascading failures, and examines how and in what form more resilient systems might take. This includes consideration of issues such as the need for incentives in order to drive and maintain adoption of resilient technologies, and how such incentives can be created as a natural property of well-conceived systems.We also briefly examine two initiatives that seek to solve some of the harder problems, including security, trustability, independence from energy and communications infrastructure, and the ability to sustain digital capabilities when digital supply chains fail. This remains an open area requiring attention, if society is to improve its resilience to significant shocks.
AB - In an interconnected world, the challenge of maintaining interdependent systems during disasters and disruptive events, such as pandemics, bushfires, cyber-attacks and trade wars is imperative. The critical infrastructure capabilities to be sustained during disasters are many. COVID-19 has demonstrated how a public health threat can fracture the supply chains, including those that underpin digital systems, and degrade the capacity of software and hardware companies. Society must plan for such digital disruptions if it is to survive such shocks.We explore some of the reasons why this is necessary, including the issue of cascading failures, and examines how and in what form more resilient systems might take. This includes consideration of issues such as the need for incentives in order to drive and maintain adoption of resilient technologies, and how such incentives can be created as a natural property of well-conceived systems.We also briefly examine two initiatives that seek to solve some of the harder problems, including security, trustability, independence from energy and communications infrastructure, and the ability to sustain digital capabilities when digital supply chains fail. This remains an open area requiring attention, if society is to improve its resilience to significant shocks.
KW - public health
KW - digital systems
KW - technologies
KW - security
KW - cyber-attacks
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85101275274&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/GHTC46280.2020.9342865
DO - 10.1109/GHTC46280.2020.9342865
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85101275274
T3 - IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference
BT - 2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Y2 - 29 October 2020 through 1 November 2020
ER -