Tagged “infrastructure”
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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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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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Data Ownership Beyond Local First video
A panel at Local-First Conf 2026 in Berlin with Paul Frazee (Bluesky), Boris Mann (Ink & Switch), and Zenna Fiscella (Scuttlebutt), moderated by Eileen Wagner: what data ownership means once you look past local-first software.
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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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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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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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Should Europe wean itself off US tech? — RTÉ Radio 1 video
A twelve-minute conversation on Today with David McCullagh, with Dr Hazel Murray of Munster Technological University, about Europe’s dependence on US technology and what it would take 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.
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Building a thriving open social web for Europe — European Data Summit 2026 video
My keynote at the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung’s European Data Summit 2026, followed by the panel “Digital Public Infrastructure — the Social Media Issue”.
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WebTiles and Matadata at ATmosphereConf 2026
Two presentations at ATmosphereConf 2026 in Vancouver: the WebTiles Showcase with Ted Han, and a lightning talk on Matadata, publishing scientific data straight to AT.
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ATmosphereConf 2026: WebTiles Showcase and Matadata! 2 videos
My two sessions at ATmosphereConf 2026 in Vancouver: a showcase of WebTiles with Ted Han, and a lightning talk on Matadata, publishing scientific data straight to AT.
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Testifying before the Assemblée nationale on France’s digital dependencies
I testified before the Assemblée nationale’s commission of inquiry into France’s structural dependencies and systemic vulnerabilities in the digital sector; its report, published in July 2026, draws on the hearing.
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Vulnérabilités systémiques dans le secteur du numérique : audition à l’Assemblée nationale video
My testimony before the Assemblée nationale’s commission of inquiry into France’s structural dependencies and systemic vulnerabilities in the digital sector, in a round table with David Chavalarias and Maud Quessard.
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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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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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Eurosky Live: Putting the Demo in Democracy
The launch conference for the Eurosky project.
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Digital Building Blocks: ATProto and Eurosky Explained video
Explaining ATProto and Eurosky at the Eurosky Live 2025 conference.
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How Many More Cloud Scares Does Europe Need?
In Project Syndicate: the AWS and Azure outages show the threat US cloud dominance poses to Europe, and why the EU must dismantle the entrenched monopolies undermining its tech sovereignty.
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Airbus for AI: A Global Strategy for Public Value Creation
With Joshua Tan, Brandon Jackson, and Diane Coyle, a policy brief for a Public AI Company: an Airbus-style partnership among middle powers to build frontier AI in the public interest.
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Airbus for AI: A Global Strategy for Public Value Creation report
A policy brief proposing a Public AI Company: a coordinated public-private partnership among middle powers, modelled on Airbus, to build frontier AI that serves shared economic and security interests.
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Should Europe wean itself off US tech?
Quoted in the BBC on Europe’s dependence on three US firms for 70% of its cloud computing, and why the risk of a US “kill switch” should be taken seriously.
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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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Digital sovereignty can’t be bargained away
In POLITICO Europe, Cori Crider and I argue that the Commission has the tools, public support, and mandate to act on Big Tech, and that trading them away in US trade talks would be a costly mistake.
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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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Towards European technological sovereignty and a resilient digital public sphere
At the Digital Summit closing the Polish Presidency of the EU in Gdańsk, I joined a session on European technological sovereignty and a resilient digital public sphere co-hosted by Panoptykon, Mozilla, the Future of Technology Institute, Open Future, and the Open Markets Institute.
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AI Renaissance 2025
I took part in AI Renaissance, Metagov’s residential unconference on the political economy of AI at Bückeburg Palace: new infrastructure, business models, and institutions for public, open-source, and decentralised AI.
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Interfaces and influence, on Full Stack Journalism
I joined Sara Cooper and Tina Lee on the second episode of Full Stack Journalism, hosted by Sabrina Faramarzi, on the hidden influences built into the technology newsrooms use every day.
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Interfaces and influence: Reclaiming Newsroom Technology — Full Stack Journalism video
Episode two of the Full Stack Journalism live podcast, with Sara Cooper, Tina Lee, and host Sabrina Faramarzi, on the hidden influences underpinning the technology newsrooms depend on.
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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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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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The Next Social Wave: Open, Competitive, and User-Controlled 2 videos
Two excerpts from the Future of Technology Institute panel on the next wave of decentralised social media, with Sherif Elsayed-Ali, Marietje Schaake, and Emily Liu.
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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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#EuroStack: European Strategic Sovereign Digital Infrastructures
The EuroStack pitch document: why Europe must join and build its own digital infrastructures, from chips to data to compute to connectivity, and how to start.
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#EuroStack: European Strategic Sovereign Digital Infrastructures report
The pitch document that launched EuroStack: joining and building the logical and physical infrastructures — from chips to data to compute to connectivity — that secure Europe’s role in competitive digital value chains.
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Building the EuroStack, in the European Parliament
I spoke at “Toward European Digital Independence: Building the EuroStack”, the cross-party conference in the European Parliament that launched the EuroStack initiative.
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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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