Digital Ecosystems: Enabling Collaboration in a Fragmented World

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11707v1
• Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2026 08:34:50 GMT
• Title: Digital Ecosystems: Enabling Collaboration in a Fragmented World
• Authors: Marc Schmitt,
• Abstract summary: This paper develops a spectrum framework of polycentric digital ecosystems-nested socio-technical systems spanning personal, organizational, inter-organizational, and global layers.<n>By redefining digital ecosystems as distributed, adaptive networks of loosely coupled actors, this study outlines new pathways for crossborder coordination and innovation.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: 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.

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