World Digital Governance
A global collaboration for digital excellence, committed to ethical, inclusive, and forward-thinking digital governance.
What is WDG?
WDG is a global initiative born in the Caribbean, built for the world to harmonize how data, AI, and digital credentials are governed so employers can hire across borders with trust. It turns scattered compliance into a single, interoperable framework that respects national sovereignty and individual rights.
The PROSE Framework (WDG's Core)
Five interconnected pillars that create a comprehensive digital governance system
Policy
Strategic guidance that aligns human rights, innovation, and sovereignty. It sets long-term roadmaps and cross-border alignment so countries can modernize without ceding control.
Regulation
Ready-to-adapt model rules that protect rights while enabling innovation: risk-tiered AI oversight, lawful data use, contestability, and practical enforcement.
Ontology
A shared language for people, data, and systems (who, what, why, and how they relate). Common definitions make data portable, AI auditable, and credentials interoperable.
Standards
Technical and procedural baselines security, interoperability, identity, accessibility so implementations are trustworthy, certifiable, and compatible across borders.
Ethics
Principles embedded from design to deployment: transparency, fairness, privacy, accountability, and human-in-the-loop for decisions that affect livelihoods.
How It Works in Practice
Screening, training, and placement generate three things employers need to trust at a glance: the right to use data (so learners share only what's necessary), the explainability of AI used for matching and evaluation, and verifiable credentials for skills and placements. PROSE makes that trust portable. Employers evaluate a role once, then hire across participating countries without re-doing compliance from scratch; providers design once and place graduates region-wide; governments supervise once with consistent, privacy-preserving metrics.
What's Happening Now (Caribbean Rollout)
WDG advances a Draft Resolution that harmonizes data rights, ethical-AI obligations, and verifiable credentials across the Caribbean. Reference implementations cover consent, AI auditing, and credential verification to make adoption practical.
A CTU Ministerial gathering will showcase the framework's benefits for services-led growth, with participation from ministers, regulators, employers, educators, and civil society. The goal: align policy and pilots so "vet once, hire many" becomes operational.
Implementation Timeline
Who Benefits (At a Glance)
Students & Workers
Portable, verifiable credentials; transparent consent; recourse on AI decisions; faster access to regional and global jobs.
Employers
One trust framework for privacy, AI, and credentials; lower compliance friction; scale remote hiring across jurisdictions.
Training Providers
Recognized credentials and auditable outcomes that unlock performance-linked funding.
Governments & Regulators
Consistent oversight, national sovereignty preserved, rights-first growth with exportable services.
Why It De-Risks Investment
When data use is lawful, AI decisions are logged and auditable, and outcomes are verifiable, capital can finance devices, connectivity, campuses, and coaching with outcome-linked triggers (credentials issued, placements achieved). That reduces risk, recycles funding into more seats and creates more jobs.
Join the World Digital Governance Initiative
Help shape the future of ethical, inclusive digital governance across borders.