Tagged “sovereignty”
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Trefdag Vlaanderen Digitaal 2026
Talking about sovereignty, social media, and identity.
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A Real Digital Omnibus for European Competitiveness and Security
Our report on the data provisions of the Digital Omnibus: a framework for trilogue negotiators to tell the provisions that genuinely simplify from those that would undermine the trusted environment European competitiveness depends on.
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A Real Digital Omnibus for European Competitiveness and Security report
This document is an expert contribution to ongoing discussions about the data aspects of the Digital Omnibus. My purpose is to provide the framework and background information necessary for trilogue interlocutors to identify which provisions can be retained, which can be improved, and which should be reconsidered, so that the final Omnibus achieves the impact that its proponents seek.
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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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« 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Brux Conference Perfect Storm 2025: Europe - Community or Colony? Can we Build our Own Digital Infrastructure?
A panel on sovereignty and infrastructure with Cristina Caffarra, Axel Voss, Marian Gläser, Jonas Andrulis, Andy Yen, and Ivan De Lastours.
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Europe - Community or Colony? Can we Build our Own Digital Infrastructure? video
A panel on sovereignty and infrastructure with Cristina Caffarra, Axel Voss, Marian Gläser, Jonas Andrulis, Andy Yen, and Ivan De Lastours.
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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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