Toward a Cross-Cultural Philosophy of the Digital Age: Cyberism in Dialogue with Ubuntu, Ubushingantahe, and Ingoma in Burundi

Digital technologies increasingly mediate identity, social relations, dispute resolution, and political authority, raising philosophical questions that resist a strict separation between virtual and embodied life. This article examines whether Cyberism can develop toward a cross-cultural philosophy of the digital age through dialogue with three Burundian normative resources: Ubuntu, Ubushingantahe, and Ingoma. The Cyber-Physical-Social-Thinking (CPST) framework is interpreted as an analytical heuristic based on analytical distinction without ontological separation. Using an integrative conceptual review and dialogic comparative analysis, the study reconstructs Ubuntu around relational personhood, Ubushingantahe around contextual and restorative procedure, and Ingoma around materially embodied and publicly recognized authority. Their relations to CPST are treated as non-exclusive analytical affinities. Three bounded propositions emerge: rights-preserving relation-sovereign identity, restorative digital dispute governance, and collectively enacted digital sovereignty. Critical testing identifies conditions concerning agency, exclusion, coercion, digital formalization, legitimacy, and epistemic asymmetry. The dialogue also requires two revisions to Cyberism: personhood and legitimacy should be treated as properties of cross-domain configurations, and collective deliberative judgment should be accommodated as a Social–Thinking configuration. The study offers no empirically validated policy model; its contribution is a revisable framework for cross-cultural philosophical inquiry and future institutional evaluation in Burundi.