Supramundane Agency is a consultancy specialised in bringing democracy to the internet., 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!
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.
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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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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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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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Fascintern Media
We are facing a coordinated international fascist movement that works with explicit backing from Moscow, Washington, and tech monopolies, and is propagating itself through its own media apparatus. Yet people who claim to side with democracy keep doing work to support Fascintern media because they misunderstand how it works. This needs to change.
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Web Engines Hackfest
I will be at Web Engines Hackfest, meeting with people who want to figure out where browsers should be going next.
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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 independent social media infrastructure as a first step in the movement to make our digital world democratic.
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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 all editorial channels, including algorithms that determine what is relevant to people.