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Trust as Infrastructure: From Control to Convergence in Digital Systems A policy conversation starter by Gaël Van Weyenbergh (2026)
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The seven pages in the global navigation provide the principal ways into the work. The Report contains a compact Find Your Way callout for readers looking for a particular chapter, framework or institutional model. Convergence connects the original political proposition to the more recent institutional report. Scenarios, Policy Recommendations and Open Questions test the framework against practice, implementation and possible failure.
This page provides the complete map.
Trust As Infrastructure — The landing page. Introduces the governance challenge of the network age, the limits of control and the central question: what kind of governance becomes possible when no institution can see, know or control the whole? Offers three routes into the site: In Short, Scenarios and The Report.
In short — The complete framework in seven movements. Moves from the distinction between communication and coordination to the limits of control, the failure at consequential handoffs, warranted reliance, governed connections, convergence and the urgency created by systems capable of executing consequences.
The Report — The complete report, The Missing Institutional Interface: Governing Coordination in the Age of AI. Nine sections develop the institutional diagnosis, a functional genealogy of interfaces, the risks of capture, the representational and federative interfaces of the AI age, the proposed architecture and a practical, falsifiable agenda. A Find Your Way callout gives direct access to the argument path and the principal frameworks and models.
Convergence — The bridge between The Convergence Imperative and The Missing Institutional Interface. Defines convergence as the coordination logic through which differently governed actors can move in compatible directions without requiring a single centre. Serves as the hub for the report, its shorter version, its exhibits and its original political framing.
Scenarios — The applied testing ground. Five cases examine whether evidence, authority, representation, remedy and learning can remain connected when consequences cross institutional boundaries. A decision-maker matrix identifies the broken connection, proposed interface and boundary that must remain intact in each case. A sixth, advanced scenario tests programmable execution.
Policy Recommendations — Opens Policy Recommendations. Seven structural moves translate the framework into action: consequential path assessment, governance through procurement, mandate-based recognition of interfaces, end-to-end contestability and correction, cross-border compatibility envelopes, investment in connective capacity and falsifiable pilots with governed learning.
Open Questions — Opens Open Questions. Eight objections examine speed, measurement, capture, gatekeeping, institutional resistance, the relationship between regulation and practice, legitimate conflict and implementation complexity. The page closes with explicit conditions under which the framework should be rejected or redesigned.