Tagged “democracy”
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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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#Disinfo2026: double-session, Unshitted and Trust & Safety through decentralised platforms
The counter-disinformation community meets for #Disinfo2026 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
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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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« La souveraineté numérique se construit par étapes, et si les institutions ne bougent pas, le public ne bougera pas »
In Le Monde, Nicolas Hénin and I argue that the French state’s satirical X account, French Response, is a tactical answer to a strategic problem, and that institutions should invest in healthy, well-governed platforms so that the public follows.
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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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Funding The Web: From Cartel to Covenant report
Browsers are critical public infrastructure that no one pays for. The search/browser levy that funds them has become a de facto private government of the web; this report documents it, analyses its harms, and lays out a toolbox to place it under public-interest governance.
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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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We Build On Hope video
The current state of tech can feel disheartening. But we have every reason to hope.
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Cambridge Disinformation Summit
I spoke at the Summit about the infrastructure needed to support sovereignty.
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Cambridge Disinformation Summit video
Robin Berjon, Principal, Supramundane Agency, discusses digital sovereignty and infrastructure needed to support sovereignty.
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Rebuild 1: a sprint for European social platforms
I took part in Rebuild 1 in Copenhagen, the first of three 48-hour gatherings of the people building Europe’s next generation of social platforms.
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Keynote at the EU Tech Stars Summit
I gave the opening keynote of the Greens/EFA EU Tech Stars Summit in the European Parliament, a day with the European tech ecosystem that champions democracy, privacy, and transparency.
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Résilience numérique européenne et géopolitique en 2026
An evening for decision-makers, journalists, patrons, scientists, open-source advocates, and citizens who wish to learn, reflect, and take concrete action toward developing a European digital space that is sovereign and resilient to geopolitical disruptions, at the Institut des Systèmes Complexes de Paris Île-de-France (CNRS).
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De l’usage démocratique des protocoles video
Soirée destinée aux décideurs, journalistes, mécènes, scientifiques, libristes, citoyennes et citoyens qui souhaitent s’informer, réfléchir et agir concrètement pour le développement d’un espace numérique européen souverain et résilient aux perturbations géopolitiques.
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The Democratic Tech Alliance is founded
The Democratic Tech Alliance brings MEPs from across political groups together with civil society, experts, and European businesses to build an EU tech ecosystem that serves democracy. I sit on its steering committee.
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What is digital sovereignty and how can Europe achieve it?
Europe has experienced a sense of losing control over its digital ecosystem and economic considerations, coupled with a perception that its innovation in the technology world is lagging. In this foundational episode, Chloe Teevan and Gautam Kamath explore the critical concept of digital sovereignty with Robin Berjon and why it demands attention from policymakers worldwide.
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What is digital sovereignty and how can Europe achieve it? video
Europe has experienced a sense of losing control over its digital ecosystem and economic considerations, coupled with a perception that its innovation in the technology world is lagging. In this foundational episode, Chloe Teevan and Gautam Kamath explore the critical concept of digital sovereignty with Robin Berjon and why it demands attention from policymakers worldwide.
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Open Protocols and Public Interest Social Media at IGF 2025
I spoke at a workshop on open protocols and public interest social media at the Internet Governance Forum in Lillestrøm, convened with the Digital Public Goods Alliance and Project Liberty Institute.
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re:publica 25
Our digital sphere is authoritarian and as the internet is infrastructure for society this makes our world authoritarian too. In this talk, I explain how to use open protocols, pro-democracy technical architectures, and our understanding of digital infrastructure to build democratic social media.
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re:publica 25: How We Can Finally Make The Digital World Democratic video
Our digital sphere is authoritarian and as the internet is infrastructure for society this makes our world authoritarian too. In this talk, I explain how to use open protocols, pro-democracy technical architectures, and our understanding of digital infrastructure to build democratic social media.
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What’s next for social media?
Quoted in the BBC, as one of Free Our Feeds’ custodians, on why Bluesky’s infrastructure must not stay in the hands of a single operator.
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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.
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Algorithmic Pluralism: Towards Competitive & Innovative Information Ecosystems report
Sherif Elsayed-Ali and Robin Berjon 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.
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Free Our Feeds, explained for EU DisinfoLab
An EU DisinfoLab webinar with Joe McNamee on how open protocols can free us from polarising algorithms and build public interest social media.
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Free Our Feeds: a path to build open, public interest social media video
An EU DisinfoLab webinar on getting away from algorithms designed to generate polarised content: how open protocols open the door to public interest social media infrastructure and a healthier information environment. Moderated by Joe McNamee.
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Hearsay Culture Radio video
In this episode, Robin Berjon—technologist, deputy director of the IPFS Foundation, and former New York Times privacy and data governance lead—joins host Dave Levine (Associate Dean and Professor at Elon University School of Law, affiliate scholar at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society) to dive into the challenges of digital infrastructure and how we can reclaim social media from billionaire capture.
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Free Our Feeds launches — and I am one of its custodians
Free Our Feeds is a campaign to build open, people-powered social media on the AT Protocol, governed in the public interest. I serve as one of its custodians.
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Social Media as It Should Be
In Project Syndicate: how the Bluesky model — public protocols rather than private platforms — could restore the original promise of the internet.
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The Public Interest Internet video
My talk at Web3 Summit 2024 at Funkhaus Berlin: what it would take to run the internet as public interest infrastructure rather than as a set of privately governed platforms.
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