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 three 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.
The desks follow one region at a time. The China / Desk and the US / Desk, with a Europe desk in preparation, track what governments, regulators, courts and the companies acting on rules do in technology and cyberspace, one to three issues a month and in English. Where the brief reports the news, a desk follows a few developments over time, anchored on primary texts, with stated likelihood and confidence and a reading of what each means for Europe. How the desks are made, including the role of automation and AI assistance, is described in How the desks work.
Across all three, 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.
