Supramundane Agency is a consultancy specialised in bringing democracy to the internet.
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!
Today
Upcoming
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#Disinfo2026: double-session, Unshitted and Trust & Safety through decentralised platforms
The counter-disinformation community meets for #Disinfo2026 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
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Institute of Open Science Practices — IOSP 2026
An event for the people building, using, and advancing the infrastructure open science depends on. I’ll be demonstrating work relating to publishing datasets to the Atmosphere.
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Trefdag Vlaanderen Digitaal 2026
Talking about sovereignty, social media, and identity.
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Construir el futuro
This second edition of Construir el futuro, an event organised by the Meridiano Institute which seeks to put climate change back at the center of contemporary politics. Along with the excellent Xan López we’ll be discussing a forthcoming report on the management of public identities.
Previously
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Testimony to the Council of Europe Committee of Experts on Media Regulators in a Platform-Based Environment
An expert consultation from the Council of Europe on media regulation and social media.
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Media Media
The authoritarians are winning, we can all see that. It wouldn’t be the worst thing if the pro-democracy camp stopped being naive about social media.
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Rebuild 2 in Helsinki
The second Rebuild gathering, in Helsinki: a summer camp where the people building Europe’s social platforms teach each other how to build, design, and scale them.
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Souveraineté numérique : qu’est-ce qu’Eurosky, ce projet de web social européen ?
Interviewed (in French) by Mathilde Saliou for Next about Eurosky, the European social web project, and what sovereignty means beyond the Silicon Valley model.
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Data Ownership Beyond Local First, at Local-First Conf
I joined a panel at Local-First Conf 2026 in Berlin with Paul Frazee, Boris Mann, and Zenna Fiscella on what data ownership means beyond local-first software.
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The Retweeting Class
I have often found myself confounded by the behaviour of some people who seem impervious to reality — like the people still on X today. Here, I try to understand what grounds their epistemology and its consequences, and what that means for the rest of us. Being committed to a better future is where genuine seriousness is, and that seriousness can only be approached in a spirit of embodied, determined, relentless hope.
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Rewilding the Web: diversity and resilience in digital infrastructure
A two-day workshop at the University of Edinburgh bringing ecologists, philosophers, cultural theorists, and technologists together around the idea of rewilding the internet.
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Funding The Web: From Cartel to Covenant
Our report on the search/browser levy — the little-known system that funds browsers, enforces a search monopoly, and defunds the rest of the web — and how to reform it.
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The Direction of Interoperability
Talking in terms of horizontal or vertical interoperability is too constrictive a mental model to understand what interoperability does. Doing better matters, and it’s right within reach.
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We Build On Hope: keynote at PublicSpaces 2026
My keynote at PublicSpaces 2026 in Amsterdam: the current state of tech can feel disheartening, but we have every reason to hope — and a strategy to bring democracy to the internet.
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On RTÉ Radio 1: should Europe wean itself off US tech?
I joined Today with David McCullagh on RTÉ Radio 1, alongside Dr Hazel Murray of Munster Technological University, to discuss Europe’s dependence on US technology and how to reduce it.
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Social media as digital public infrastructure, at the European Data Summit
I gave a keynote on building a thriving open social web for Europe at the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung’s European Data Summit 2026 in Berlin, followed by a panel on social media as digital public infrastructure.