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CIGI Maps the Fault Lines of Digital Governance in 2026

The Centre for International Governance Innovation's annual digital governance outlook identifies a widening gap between the pace of AI and emerging technology and the institutions meant to govern them — while noting that the private sector is filling the vacuum.

AI for Sustainability Finds Its Test Ground in Taipei

Researchers, policymakers, and industry practitioners gathered in Taipei to explore how artificial intelligence can serve planetary resilience — examining not just technical potential but governance frameworks for equitable deployment.

Actors (20)

ÆRTH

Planetary AI digital twin using blockchain and remote sensing.

Agenda Gotsch

Syntropic farming education and practice platform founded by Ernst Gotsch, promoting regenerative agroforestry systems through training, demonstration farms, and a global practitioner network.

Climate TRACE

AI + satellite global emissions monitoring. Al Gore-backed.

Future Earth

Global sustainability research platform. Erik Pihl background.

Gaia AI

AI-powered forest management platform providing satellite-derived insights on forest health, carbon stocks, and biodiversity metrics to support data-driven conservation decisions.

Gaia Foundation

UK-based foundation advancing earth jurisprudence, seed sovereignty, and community ecological governance across Africa and South America. Pioneers of the 'earth jurisprudence' legal-philosophical framework.

Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature

International network advancing rights of nature through legal frameworks, hosting International Rights of Nature Tribunals, and supporting community-led campaigns for ecosystem legal personhood.

Institute for the Future

50+ year old futures research institute running experiential futures training, foresight research, and large-scale public forecasting exercises combining gameplay with futures thinking.

Kindship

AI platform building autonomous agents for mission-driven individuals and teams. Agents hold direction over time, act independently, remember context, and produce real-world outputs — designed for changemakers, sensemakers, and collaborative projects.

Kiss the Ground

Soil health advocacy NGO producing documentary films, running farmer training programmes, and building public awareness of regenerative agriculture as a climate solution.

Learning Planet Institute

Paris-based institute developing educational approaches for planetary citizenship, running futures learning labs on anticipatory governance and connecting education with sustainability transformation.

Polis

Structured large-scale conversation finding genuine consensus. Used in Taiwan.

Regen Network

Blockchain-verified soil health and carbon sequestration tokens.

Toucan Protocol

Web3 infrastructure bringing carbon credits on-chain, enabling transparent and programmable carbon markets through tokenisation of verified environmental assets.

Projects (10)

AERTH Planetary AI

AI-driven predictive platform functioning as a dynamic digital twin of Earth. Connects on-ground research with satellite observations. Blockchain-secured data sharing with bounty system for scenario modelling.

Genius Platform (VERSES AI)

AI platform using active inference (Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle) to create context-aware AI systems. Demonstrated cross-platform digital twin interoperability with NASA JPL for lunar rover simulation.

Kolektivo Curacao

Island-scale pilot implementing CuraDAI local stablecoin, tokenised food forests, and ecological UBI. Participants earn CuraDAI by contributing to social and ecological projects like beach cleanups and planting food forests.

Quadratic Voting (RxC)

Mathematical voting tool where voters allocate voice credits quadratically to issues they care about. Proven in Taiwanese Presidential Hackathon and Colorado state budget allocations.

Regen Ledger

Domain-specific public Cosmos blockchain for ecological regeneration. Supports ecological crediting protocols, ecocredit trading, and AI-driven measurement with peer-reviewed Ecological State Protocols.

RFCx Arbimon Platform

Web console platform for long-term biodiversity monitoring using CNNs for species identification from acoustic data. Developed with Microsoft AI for Good.

RFCx Guardian System

Autonomous solar-powered listening devices made from recycled smartphones, installed in rainforest canopies to detect chainsaws, gunshots, and vehicles in real-time for anti-poaching and anti-logging.

SEEDS Regenerative Currency

Regenerative currency ecosystem on Telos blockchain. Evolved into Hypha DAO Organization-in-a-Box solutions.

Smart Covenants

Platform leveraging smart contracts and distributed ledgers to democratise public investment and recapture land value uplift generated by sustainable infrastructure. Developed with EIT Climate-KIC.

Strawbees Sustainability Station

Educational programme aligning with UN SDGs, challenging students to design wind turbines, hurricane-resistant architecture, and assistive medical devices using physical prototyping tools.

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