Robin Berjon

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Robin Berjon is a technologist specialising in the governance of digital tech. He runs Supramundane Agency and is deputy director of the IPFS Foundation. 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 World Wide Web Consortium. 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. He serves as a custodian of Free Our Feeds and is a founder of the EuroStack initiative. He lives in Brussels, Belgium.

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How We Can Finally Make The Digital World Democratic: Starting With Social Media

Robin Berjon

Summary
Our digital sphere is authoritarian and as the internet is infrastructure for society this makes our world authoritarian too. In this talk, we’ll see how to use open protocols, pro-democracy technical architectures, and our understanding of digital infrastructure to build democratic social media.
Democracy
Digital rights
Platforms
Stage 3
Talk
English
re:claim Digital Future
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