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Convergence: From risk-aversion to risk-awareness. Six structural moves that would accelerate the transition from control-based to trust-based digital governance.

These recommendations are implementable within existing legal and technical frameworks. Each builds on instruments that already exist—legal frameworks, technical standards, institutional forms—and identifies the specific intervention that would make them interoperate as trust infrastructure. They are designed for any jurisdiction serious about digital sovereignty, but they are particularly actionable for the Global Majority, where fewer legacy constraints mean faster adoption. These interventions do not manufacture trust directly. They create the conditions under which interpersonal trust can become visible, consequential, and economically rational at scale.

Primary actors: legislators, regulators, development finance institutions, and public procurement authorities.

1. Recognise Fiduciary Data Intermediaries as a Distinct Legal Category

2. Mandate Provenance Interoperability, Not Content Triage

3. Establish Regulatory Sandboxes for Cross-Border Digital Common Law

4. Transition from Snapshot Audit to Continuous Accountability

5. Fund Jurisdiction-Specific Friction Audits

6. Invest in Cooperative Incubation Infrastructure

These six recommendations are not a wishlist. Each addresses a specific bottleneck in the transition from control-based to trust-based governance, and each builds on instruments that already exist. Taken together, they enable a shift to trust-based coordination by making existing legal, technical, and institutional tools interoperate as infrastructure. Implementation does not require a single flagship reform. It requires coordinated adoption across legal, technical, and institutional layers.

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