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This paper introduces a spectrum framework for polycentric digital ecosystems, conceptualizing them as nested socio-technical systems across personal, organizational, inter-organizational, and global layers. It addresses the increasing need for resilient digital collaboration amidst geopolitical and technological fragmentation. The framework highlights how AI and automation, blockchain trust, federated data spaces, and immersive technologies can orchestrate digital integration in these ecosystems.
Forget monolithic platforms: polycentric digital ecosystems, orchestrated by AI, offer a new blueprint for collaboration in our fragmented world.
As geopolitical, organizational, and technological fragmentation deepens, resilient digital collaboration becomes imperative. This paper develops a spectrum framework of polycentric digital ecosystems-nested socio-technical systems spanning personal, organizational, inter-organizational, and global layers. Integration across these layers is enabled by four technology clusters: AI and automation, blockchain trust, federated data spaces, and immersive technologies. By redefining digital ecosystems as distributed, adaptive networks of loosely coupled actors, this study outlines new pathways for crossborder coordination and innovation. The framework extends platform theory by introducing a multi-layer conceptualization of polycentric digital ecosystems and demonstrates how AI-enabled infrastructures can be orchestrated to achieve digital integration in a fragmented, multipolar world.