skip to content

Posts RSS feed

2026

  • AI agent governance: civic identity and jurisdiction →

    Digital urbanization approaches AI agent governance through civic identity. Verifiable AI agent identity, an accountable sponsor, jurisdiction, bounded delegation and revocation, worked through the civic profile of a purchasing agent in the fictional Northstar case.

  • Governing the data subsurface no one sees →

    Data governance in the digital urbanization framework. Operational records, data products, lineage, semantics and vector indexes form a subsurface that needs an owner, a map and controlled connections, and the three margins of the fictional Northstar case show why.

  • Digital habitability: what architecture doesn't measure →

    What digital habitability means, why a technically coherent environment can still stall platform adoption and wear down developer experience, how its absence feeds shadow IT, and which candidate indicators could measure it without fooling yourself.

  • The enterprise as an inhabited territory →

    Enterprise architecture tends to govern a company's digital environment as an application portfolio. DWU proposes reading it as a territory inhabited by people, systems and AI agents, organized into seven interdependent systems.

  • The digital urbanization canvas: 10 diagnostic questions →

    A ten-question canvas for an evidence-based enterprise architecture assessment that covers the seven DWU systems plus habitability, informal settlements and urban debt. It includes a filled-in fictional case and a way to test whether the canvas actually helps.