AXM at the United Nations General Assembly: Introducing Authorship as Digital Public Infrastructure
Oct 8, 2025
From UNGA80, AXM’s insight: authorship isn’t content — it’s infrastructure. The next layer of digital public goods is cultural.
When AXM was invited to the United Nations General Assembly’s Digital Cooperation & DPI Safeguards Day, we entered a global conversation about how digital public infrastructure (DPI) can build a safer, more inclusive internet. But we didn’t just join the conversation — we expanded it.
While much of the DPI dialogue focused on identity, payments, and data exchange, AXM introduced a fourth pillar that had not yet been named in the official programming: authorship and cultural rights as a new asset class and public infrastructure layer.
From Participation to Proposition
Our presence at UNGA80 was an opportunity to frame cultural IP governance as a systems-level issue, not a sectoral one. Every nation depends on stories, music, images, archives, and ideas — yet none of these have an interoperable infrastructure for consent, valuation, or preservation.
AXM proposed a framework where authorship is treated as infrastructure, not merely content — a civic layer capable of carrying trust, economic value, and cultural continuity across borders.
Inside the Conversation: What We Observed
Across sessions on digital safeguards, trust, and governance, several patterns emerged:
Trust infrastructure is the new priority. Safeguards are less about regulation on paper and more about accountability, auditability, and interoperability in practice.
Machine-readable law is coming. The next challenge is turning treaties, rights, and compliance obligations into data — so they can live inside protocols.
Privacy now begins with sovereignty. Zero-knowledge proofs and sovereign credentials are quickly becoming the global baseline for DPI systems.
Finance is part of the trust equation. Safeguards are being linked to credit, insurance, and risk modeling — connecting cultural and financial integrity.
The Global South is setting the benchmark. Real progress is happening through pilots — not policy papers — in countries building working infrastructure from the ground up.
The urgency is real. Most safeguard frameworks remain aspirational. The next step must be functioning, testable systems.
AXM’s Intervention: Cultural IP as Public Infrastructure
AXM introduced the concept of programmable consent — a governance model where cultural and creative rights are not only protected but also made machine-verifiable across jurisdictions.
We positioned cultural IP as a sovereign-compliant asset class that deserves the same technical rigor as digital ID or payment rails. Just as Aadhaar standardized identity and UPI standardized transactions, AXM’s work aims to standardize authorship — ensuring that rights, royalties, and representation are preserved as infrastructure, not afterthoughts.
Why It Matters
Cultural and creative economies represent trillions in global value yet remain structurally disconnected from digital infrastructure design. Without authorship safeguards, the same inequities that plagued analog economies will repeat in the AI era — at machine speed.
By encoding rights, consent, and valuation into verifiable infrastructure, AXM helps make cultural IP bankable, auditable, and insurable for the first time.
The Road Ahead
Following UNGA80, AXM continues to engage with DPI alliances, policy bodies, and creative institutions to operationalize these ideas through pilots and technical standards. Our goal is not simply to participate in DPI — but to ensure cultural rights have a permanent home within it.
The world is building the rails for data and finance. AXM is building the rails for memory, authorship, and consent.
About AXM
AXM Technologies is a public infrastructure company developing Digital Public Infrastructure for Authorship — a sovereign-compliant platform for cultural IP licensing, governance, valuation, and programmable consent.