DANPASS is a personal governance initiative created by author Elisa Oliveira, built around the idea that each person holds an important “estate” beyond financial assets: health, relationships, attention, identity and meaning. Its DANPASS Method offers an architecture for understanding and governing these areas, with the human being retaining the final say in a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence. The method is organized into seventeen groups of assets across five layers and is designed to begin with individual life, with the potential to inform communities, institutions and wider society.

DANPASS presents the method through a forthcoming book, Human, Still Sovereign, and a digital platform in development. The platform is intended to support reflection on personal governance and regular reviews over time. The initiative also offers talks, podcasts, book clubs and, on request, shared-reading opportunities and programs for organizational leaders, teams and classrooms. Its central principle is that technology may execute, but people govern: the method suggests, and each person decides.