Robin Berjon

Robin Berjon is a political technologist and entrepreneur with three decades of experience spanning Europe, North America, and Asia. He advises organisations of every size on matters of strategy, technology, and governance. He is Principal at the Supramundane Agency, Deputy Director of the IPFS Foundation, Vice-Chair of the Modal Foundation, and Senior Fellow with both the Future of Tech Institute and Public AI Network. Previously he was VP of Data Governance at The New York Times, where he worked on privacy and safeguarding media independence, and Vice-Chair of the board of the W3C. His work focuses on building durable democratic governance of technology so that our digital sphere starts operating in the public interest at the planetary scale.

His current projects include DASL, a protocol toolbox developed in Europe that supports millions of users; Eurosky, social media infrastructure along with Mu, a next-generation social media app; the Funding The Web fund, a policy project to break the search (and soon AI) monopoly while supporting a better web; and Ziran, an app for universal collaborative documents.

He lives in Brussels, Belgium. For more information, you can read his CV. Writing highlights:

• We Need To Rewild The Internet, with Maria Farrell (Noēma)
• La souveraineté numérique se construit par étapes, et si les institutions ne bougent pas, le public ne bougera pas, with Nicolas Hénin (Le Monde)
• Digital sovereignty can’t be bargained away, with Cori Crider (Politico)
• Social Media As It Should Be (Project Syndicate)
• How Many More Cloud Scares Does Europe Need? (Project Syndicate)
• The Public Interest Internet
• The Internet Transition
• The Infrastructure Shock
• The Web Is For User Agency
• Stewardship of Ourselves
• How The New York Times Thinks About Your Privacy (NYT Open)
• Pushing Back Against Privacy Infringement On The Web (Smashing Magazine)