---
id: digital-colleague
title: "Digital Colleague"
scopeid: essifLab
type: term
typeid: digital-colleague
conceptref: ":Colleague"
stage: draft
hoverText: "Digital Colleagues: two or more Digital Agents that all have the same Principal (i.e. Party on whose behalf they exeucte Actions)."
glossaryText: "two or more %Digital Agents% that all have the same %Principal% (i.e. %Party% on whose behalf they exeucte %Actions%)."
---

### Purpose
The ability to distinguish between (non)digital colleagues allows us to reason and communicate about the set of %%digital actors|digital-actor%% that are %%agents|agent%% for a single **principal|principal%%.

See also: %%colleague|colleague%%.