Reflections on the decisions shaping digital futures, questioning assumptions drawn from larger nations and exploring what technology, governance and public value mean for smaller states and their citizens.
Global AI rules assume capacities many governments lack. Small island states meet the hardest cases first, and their experience points to sovereignty achieved together, through shared standards and regional capacity.
An AI agent's real safety boundary is the architecture around it. Governments buying agents must check where they run, what they can reach and who can stop them.
Consent rarely gives citizens real control over their data, and AI built on it can make that permanent. Governments should rework consent, procurement and use limits before these systems scale.
A blog from the NCIT years, 2012 to 2013, on e-government, the digital divide and online safety. Six further posts are in Dhivehi.
