Paolo
De Rosa

I work on digital identity, trust services, cybersecurity and AI policy at the European Commission. Before Brussels I led technology at the Italian government's Department for Digital Transformation, and before that I spent years building networks and cloud platforms on open source software.

I started out at hackmeetings, among hackers and activist groups, when the internet still looked like a way out of isolation. It turned out to be an illusion, and the question it left me with is the one I still care about: who owns the infrastructure, and who gets to decide what it does.

At cyberverso.net I write about technology, politics and economics as one subject rather than three, because that is what they are: who controls the interface, who owns the numbers, and what kind of digital Europe we decide to build.