To address the need for regulating digital technologies without hampering innovation or pre-digital transformation regulatory frameworks, we provide a model to evolve Data governance toward Information governance and precise the relation between these two terms. This model bridges digital and non-digital information exchange. By considering the question of governed data usage through the angle of the Principal-Agent problem, we build a distributed governance model based on Autonomous Principals defined as entities capable of choice, therefore capable of exercising a transactional sovereignty. Extending the legal concept of the privacy sphere to a functional equivalent in the digital space leads to the construction of a digital self to which rights and accountability can be attached. Ecosystems, defined as communities of autonomous principals bound by a legitimate authority, provide the basis of interacting structures of increasing complexity endowed with a self-replicating property that mirrors physical world governance systems. The model proposes a governance concept for multi-stakeholder information systems operating across jurisdictions. Using recent software engineering advances in decentralised authentication and semantics, we provide a framework, Dynamic Data Economy to deploy a distributed governance model embedding checks and balance between human and technological governance. Domain specific governance models are left for further publications. Similarly, the technical questions related to the connection between a digital-self and its physical world controller (e.g biometric binding) will be treated in upcoming publications.

翻译：为应对在不抑制创新或颠覆数字化转型前监管框架的前提下规范数字技术的需求，我们提出了一种将数据治理向信息治理演进并明确两者关系的模型。该模型弥合了数字与非数字信息交换的鸿沟。通过从委托-代理问题的视角审视受规范的数据使用问题，我们构建了一种基于自主主体（定义为具备选择能力因而能够行使交易主权的主体）的分布式治理模型。将隐私权的法律概念扩展至数字空间中的功能等价物，进而构建一个可赋予权利与问责权的数字自我。生态系统（定义为受合法权威约束的自主主体共同体）为具有自复制特性的递增复杂交互结构提供了基础，这种结构映射了物理世界治理体系。该模型提出了一种适用于跨司法管辖区多利益相关方信息系统的治理概念。利用去中心化认证与语义学领域的最新软件工程进展，我们提供了一个名为"动态数据经济"的框架，用于部署嵌入人机治理制衡机制的分布式治理模型。特定领域的治理模型留待后续出版物阐述。同样，数字自我与其物理世界控制者之间的连接技术问题（如生物特征绑定）将在后续论文中探讨。