Paolo
De Rosa

I work on digital identity, trust services and cybersecurity policy at the European Commission. Before Brussels I was the technology lead for a national government's digital transformation, and before that I built networks and cloud platforms.

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

At cyberverso.net I write about technology, politics and economics as one subject rather than three: who controls the interface, who owns the numbers, and what kind of digital Europe gets built as a result.