cyber/verso is a personal and independent publication about the relationship between technology, power and digital society.
It begins with a simple premise: technical architectures are also institutional arrangements. Infrastructure, standards, interfaces, data and models determine who can act, who depends on whom, and which decisions can still be subject to democratic control.
I write about digital identity, public digital infrastructure, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, money and technological sovereignty.
cyber/verso deliberately distinguishes between two forms of content.
The essays contain a voice, an argument and a thesis. They are where I try to interpret what technological transformations mean and how they change the distribution of power.
Cyber Brief is a daily selection and synthesis of the news I follow. It presents the signal before the commentary: the facts, the connections and what deserves attention, while keeping synthesis distinct from my own opinion. Editorial judgement remains a human responsibility.
cyber/verso is written and edited by Paolo De Rosa, a technologist with experience in building public digital infrastructure. His personal site is paoloderosa.eu.
The views expressed in the essays are personal and do not represent the position of any organisation for which the author works or has worked.
The story behind the name, its roots in hacker culture and the path from which cyber/verso emerged are described in Why cyber/verso.