Her work examines how technical architectures shape governance, individual control and fundamental rights in digital communication.
Who she is
Dr. Francesca Musiani is a Research Director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and has served as Director of the Centre Internet et Société (CIS) since 1 January 2025. The CIS is a CNRS research unit that studies digital technology, the internet and society through an interdisciplinary lens.
Her research addresses internet governance, decentralised and distributed internet architectures, and socio-economic approaches to privacy-enhancing technologies including encryption and privacy by design. It also includes work on the development and use of encryption in messaging systems.
Why her work matters to the mission
VENTEX is working toward European digital infrastructure that combines security, privacy, user control and technological sovereignty. Dr. Francesca Musiani’s research addresses many of the same broader questions from an academic and societal perspective: how secure communication systems are governed, how decentralisation and infrastructure change control and dependency, and how privacy can be embedded into technical architecture rather than added later.
Her support relates to this broader mission — not to a technical assessment of VENTEX Connect.
Her role as a Mission Supporter
Dr. Francesca Musiani personally supports the broader VENTEX mission of building trustworthy, privacy-oriented and technologically sovereign digital infrastructure in Europe.
This personal role includes no technical review, security validation, certification, advisory duties or operational responsibility. Her institutional affiliation is displayed solely for identification.