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制数字技术的需求，我们提供了一个将数据治理演进至信息治理的模型，并精确界定了这两个术语之间的关系。该模型架起了数字与非数字信息交换之间的桥梁。通过从委托-代理问题的角度审视受治理数据的应用，我们构建了一个基于自治主体的分布式治理模型——这些主体被界定为具备选择能力、因而能够行使交易主权的实体。将隐私领域的法律概念延展至数字空间中的功能等价物，可构建出一个能够关联权利与问责的数字自我。生态系统被定义为受合法权威约束的自治主体社群，它为具有自复制特性的日益复杂交互结构提供了基础，这种特性映射了物理世界的治理体系。该模型提出了一种适用于跨司法管辖区运行的多利益相关方信息系统的治理概念。利用近年来去中心化认证与语义学领域的软件工程进展，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间制衡机制的分布式治理模型。领域特定的治理模型将留待后续出版物探讨；同样，与数字自我及其物理世界控制者（如生物特征绑定）连接相关的技术问题将在后续出版物中处理。