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Governing the Digital Frontier

Standards & Frameworks

Responsible innovation starts with the development of ethical, actionable frameworks that guide technology adoption across organizations, governments, and societies. Radia has been a driving force in creating comprehensive standards and frameworks that are defining the global approach to emerging and disruptive technologies.

As chair of various international working groups, standards architect, and policy pioneer, she has developed transformative frameworks that establish trust, security, and ethical governance in the digital age.

This collection showcases her pioneering work, featuring internationally adopted standards and comprehensive guidelines like implications for people in the metaverse. These innovative frameworks, developed through rigorous collaboration with UN agencies, IEEE working groups, and ITU standards bodies, are now shaping policy and implementation strategies worldwide.

Each framework reflects Build n Blaze's leadership in creating the governance structures that ensure emerging technologies serve humanity's best interests while fostering innovation and sustainable development.

Key Frameworks

User Confidence Framework for Immersive Spaces

Building Trust in Virtual Environments
This pioneering framework establishes the foundation for user trust in immersive interactions through transparency, control, and predictability. It defines user confidence dimensions and mutual accountability between users and platforms.
Why it matters: Defines user expectations to place individuals at the heart of virtual worlds for autonomy, safety, and sustained engagement.

Framework for Metaverse Participation

Establishing Trust at the Convergence of Digital and Physical Spaces

This groundbreaking framework introduces the novel concepts of intra-, peri-, and extra-metaverse participation; defining new ways users engage across virtual and physical realms. It sets out clear security protocols, ethical standards, and personhood principles to create more inclusive, resilient, and future-ready virtual experiences.
Why it matters: Offers strategic approach to understand and shape user participation as digital and physical worlds converge, driving deeper engagement and innovation.

Build n Blaze Immersive Readiness Framework

Assessing and Advancing Societal Readiness for Disruptive Technologies

This advanced proprietary assessment tool empowers communities, organizations, and nations to rapidly evaluate and accelerate readiness for transformative technologies, aligning opportunity, impact, and public trust to drive successful implementation and sustained outcomes.

Why it matters: Empowers confident, data-driven decisions for large-scale technology transformation; enabling leaders to navigate complexity, anticipate challenges, and achieve sustainable impact.

SDG PPP Framework for Ethical Development and Adoption

Leveraging the Sustainable Development Goals as an Ethical Compass

This pioneering framework applies the UN Sustainable Development Goals through Build n Blaze's innovative People Planet Platform approach to guide ethical considerations in immersive environments. People addresses individual well-being, equality, and personhood across offline, online, and avatar forms. Planet focuses on sustainability impacts both digital (e-waste) and physical (energy consumption). Platform ensures inclusive access, user rights, data ownership, and freedom of movement and expression while addressing policymakers' critical governance role. 
Why it matters: Creates a comprehensive ethical compass that bridges digital innovation with real-world sustainable development and human rights principles.

Framework for Human Impact in Immersive Spaces

Shaping Human-Centered Virtual Experiences

This forward-thinking framework examines urgent challenges like privacy and accessibility, together with long-term societal impacts such as governance, digital rights, and sovereignty in immersive environments.
Why it matters: Empowers organizations to plan proactively by maximizing benefits, minimizing risks, and safeguarding well-being as digital society evolves.

Framework for Inclusive and Sustainable Digital Futures

Bridging Digital Divides in the Era of Convergence

This comprehensive framework tackles digital inequalities and socio-economic barriers that impact participation in the metaverse. By integrating online and offline realities, it delivers actionable strategies to close access gaps and ensure that digital innovation translates to real-world, inclusive progress.

Why it matters: Empowers all users to access, participate in, and benefit from next-generation technology; advancing equity and enabling measurable social impact.