Digital Policies

Digital Policies Create Critical Boundaries

Today’s digital ecosystem is a realm of opportunities as well as risks. It is mandatory to regulate this environment, to mitigate risks and protect liabilities that include cybersecurity, web-based investments, and the government cloud. Despite the apparent limitation of this regulation and digital policy-making, they reduce bureaucracy and allow unhindered innovation and growth within regulated boundaries, while removing the perplexity of ambiguous guidelines.

Digital Hard and Soft Trends

To reduce risks, maximize opportunities, and navigate the disruptive digital landscape, organizations have to create clear boundaries with digital policies. One of the ways to create comprehensive but liberating policies is by identifying what leading disruptive innovator, strategist, and futurist, Daniel Burrus, calls “hard trends” and “soft trends”.

Digital Hard Trends – Burrus encourages companies to mitigate risks in the digital ecosystem by listing future trends that are not affected by external factors because of their sheer momentum, and calls these, digital hard trends. The growth of technology and an increase in the complexity and occurrence of cyber-attacks are examples of hard trends.

Digital Soft Trends – These are also based on tangible facts and predictions, but are easily influenced and cannot be guaranteed. Increased reliance on cryptocurrencies and an increase in online learning are two such trends.

The case for Digital Policies

In essence, digital policies are hard trends that create a defined space to innovate in and a foundation to build on.

Let’s say your company wants to start a new product and sends over a list of policies the digital innovation team needs to comply with. With regular compliance checks against the policy backdrop, the team is free to unleash its creativity and come up with an innovative product. The same goes for government digital policies. With clear cut digital policies from the government, businesses are free to innovate and drive national growth in the digital sphere.

Create Empowering Digital Policies With Tadafur

At Tadafur, we empower governments by facilitating the development of digital policies. To harness the potential of the digital world, increase investment value, and reduce risks, governments must create clear and comprehensive policies and regulations. At Tadafur, we use advanced policy-making techniques to create national policies for IT investment control, cybersecurity, shared services, government cloud, and interoperability.

Contact our government digital policy experts to empower your government entity with digital policy.