Supramundane Agency is a consultancy specialised in the governance of technology, operated principally by Robin Berjon.
Our methods include specifying protocols, developing libraries, prototypes, and products, creating strategies to ensure that a specific technology has governance affordances, designing institutions and governance mechanisms, participating in standards setting, developing policymaker positions and white papers, and writing about technology for both lay and specialised audiences.
If you're trying to define or deploy technology that isn't dystopian, that promotes democracy and human agency, then you've come to the right place. Reach out!
Previously
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Re:publica: How We Can Finally Make The Digital World Democratic
I will be speaking at Re:publica on May 28, 2025, at 1300, about how we can build independentsocial media infrastructure as a first step in the movement to make our digital world democratic.
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Web Engines Hackfest
I will be at Web Engines Hackfest, meeting with people who want to figure out where browsersshould be going next.
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Originator Profile
I met with the Originator Profile in Tokyo, a project bringing together a large group of media companies to develop ways of marking content as authentic.
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'Rewilding' To Feature in 'Best American Science & Nature Writing 2025'
Our 'We Need To Rewild The Internet' essay, with Maria Farrell, has been selected to be included in the 'Best American Science & Nature Writing 2025' anthology.
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Digital & Data Sovereignty: Definitions and Technologies for Independence and Resilience
I joined a Global Governance Talk panel at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, convened by Emrys Schoemaker, to discuss data sovereignty and infrastructure with the wider UN community.
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The Next Social Wave: Open, Competitive, and User-Controlled
I joined this Future of Tech Institute panel hosted by Sherif Elsayed-Ali alongside Marietje Schaake and Emily Liu, to discuss the new wave of decentralised social media.
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Algorithmic Pluralism: Towards Competitive & Innovative Information Ecosystems
Sherif Elsayed-Ali and I co-authored this Future of Technology Institute report on 'algorithmic pluralism', the idea according to which democracy requires pluralism in alleditorial channels, including algorithms that determine what is relevant to people.
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PETs and AI: Privacy Washing and the Need for a PETs Evaluation Framework
I took part in this Dagstuhl seminar on PETs and privacy washing. The participants wereexcellent, I look forward to the paper that will come from this.