# Fiduciary Governance **Domain:** Governance / Data / Institutional Duty **Doc Type:** Canonical Governance Principle **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Fiduciary governance** is the requirement that institutions exercising informational or infrastructural power act under enforceable duties of care, loyalty, competence and non-exploitation toward the people and communities affected by that power. The principle is especially important where consent is weak because participation in identity, finance, health, climate, communications or administrative infrastructure is practically unavoidable. ## Data and Model Context An institution that uses public or community data to classify risk should not owe duties only to purchasers, shareholders or state operators. Fiduciary governance can require data minimization, security, explanation, correction, benefit-sharing, independent audit and protection against cross-domain reuse. [[articles/Climate Justice and Global Reparative Systems|Climate Justice and Global Reparative Systems]] places fiduciary design between planetary measurement and legitimate repair. [[wiki/Programmable Reciprocity|Programmable Reciprocity]] makes some of those duties executable; [[wiki/Model Contestability|Model Contestability]] makes their violation challengeable. ## Infrastructure Context When infrastructure becomes indispensable, administration approaches constitutional power. [[wiki/Infrastructure as Governance|Infrastructure as Governance]] and [[wiki/Substrate Administrator|Substrate Administrator]] show why technical control must carry duties rather than silently imply ownership or unrestricted discretion. ## Key Insight **The greater the dependency and information asymmetry, the stronger the duty owed by the administrator.** ## See Also [[wiki/Public Data Infrastructure|Public Data Infrastructure]], [[wiki/Constitutional Safeguards|Constitutional Safeguards]], [[wiki/Community Data Sovereignty|Community Data Sovereignty]], [[wiki/Rights|Rights]], [[wiki/Corrective Intelligence|Corrective Intelligence]]