Nepal, Feb. 5 -- Forget tiny upgrades. Gen Z does not want a patched version of democracy or bureaucracy. They want a FORK-a government designed for their era.

In software development, "forking" refers to creating a divergent version of a codebase, taking the same foundation but developing it along fundamentally different paths for different users. This January, at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Singapore effectively forked the state itself, unveiling a Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI. The framework offers a glimpse of what governance for Gen Z can look like: adaptive, technologically literate, treating uncertainty as a feature rather than a flaw, and structured for continuous iteration rather than frozen ...