Earlier this week we published a long conversation with @ceciliarikap.bsky.social from the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP). This video offers some really interesting extracts from our conversation. Full interview is available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sqy...

💻 #BigTech consumes massive amounts of energy & water. IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social & @silviaweko.bsky.social explore how Google & Amazon are positioning themselves to control ecological transition paths for their purposes. ✍️ Read their paper here: buff.ly/DFDXWdb

Our January newsletter is out! ❄ technologypolicy.substack.com/p/the-tip-ne... We're particularly excited to invite you to our upcoming event with @ceciliarikap.bsky.social on 25 Feb 3pm GMT, where she will present her findings on the Cloud ☁️ in the age of AI 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/techn...

🎤 Do Global Value Chains really “boost incomes, create better jobs, and reduce poverty”? Benjamin Selwyn joins IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social to launch his new book and discuss challenging mainstream views. 🔗 Learn more and register here: buff.ly/TS9HNgN

Yesterday, we held the first session of the “AI critique” seminar, welcoming two scholars whose work has profoundly shaped critical debates on the political economy of AI: @ceciliarikap.bsky.social & @nsrnicek.bsky.social. Here is a short overview of the session: www.felixtreguer.fr/en/2026/01/1...

I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...

💻 #BigTech consumes massive amounts of energy & water. IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social & @silviaweko.bsky.social explore how Google & Amazon are positioning themselves to control ecological transition paths for their purposes. ✍️ Read their paper here: buff.ly/ahurAQz

🎤 Becoming less dependent on Big Tech. IIPP Head of Research @ceciliarikap.bsky.social spoke with @gerardoosterwijk.bsky.social about addressing EU digital infrastructure and the 'Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty' report on the @feps-europe.eu podcast. 🎧 Listen here: buff.ly/CS5PpHo

💻 #BigTech consumes massive amounts of energy & water. IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social & @silviaweko.bsky.social explore how Google & Amazon are positioning themselves to control ecological transition paths for their purposes. ✍️ Read their paper here: buff.ly/MKgIOkY

✍️ Why Digital Sovereignty Matters In the wake of recent cloud blackouts, IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and @paologerbaudo.bsky.social highlight the importance of #DigitalSovereignty and dangers of technological subordination. 🔗 Read their @tribunemagazine article here: buff.ly/upmJQue

Today Dec 15 at 3.30pm Brazil (6.30 pm UK/7.30pm CET) I will be speaking about #digital #sovereignty at Brazil's Ministry of Management and Innovation organized by ENAP Join online: youtube.com/live/ABLeek8... This talk is part of @iipp-ucl.bsky.social 's applied learning program

For thps that didn't have the chance to participate in this workshop, I couldn't recommend you more to watch the recordings!! Brilliant and complementary contributions to understand economic planning today, who plans, how and why and how we could instead build #democratic #ecological #planning

💻 #BigTech consumes massive amounts of energy & water. The latest paper by IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social & @silviaweko.bsky.social explores how Google & Amazon are positioning themselves to control ecological transition paths for their purposes. ✍️ Read their paper here: buff.ly/MKgIOkY

🧭 A Progressive Roadmap for Expanding European Digital Sovereignty IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social's recent policy brief with @feps-europe.eu outlines an ecosystemic and progressive roadmap for strengthening Europe’s digital sovereignty. ✍️ Read it here: buff.ly/scJ9buh

⚡️ How the US tech industry is shaping the transition to green energy. IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social 's research into #BigTech’s role in the energy transition was featured in @markpeplow.bsky.social 's article for @nature.com. ✍️ Read the article here: buff.ly/BzH9SHU

🆕 Power, Knowledge & Technology in a Finite World IIPP Prof. @ceciliarikap.bsky.social recently contributed to an article exploring how intellectual monopolisation is detrimental not only to the future but also to the present of our societies. 🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/5Wvy8OB

look forward to being back in Paris on 2nd dec to speak about public data cultures 🌱 jonathangray.org/2025/11/24/p... at @sciencespo.bsky.social with Séverine Dusollier, Yochai Benkler, @ceciliarikap.bsky.social, Léo Pascault, Balazs Bodo and @arisimarta.bsky.social

#BuyEuropean reicht zur Stärkung des Digitalstandorts Europa nicht aus, argumentiert @ceciliarikap.bsky.social. Sie hat untersucht, wie sehr Google, Microsoft, Amazon und Meta inzwischen mit der #KI-Forschungslandschaft verwoben sind. Direkt, aber vor allem indirekt (Test/Abo) 👉 t1p.de/ssacc

Our third plenary, 'Resurgent Reaction and the Rise of New Authoritarianisms' with Wendy Brown, Cecilia Rikap, Jeffery Webber and Rafeef Ziadah, is now being live streamed! Join, comrades!

Saturday night plenary with @ceciliarikap.bsky.social @rafeefz.bsky.social @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social and Wendy Brown on new authoritarianisms - full house. @histmat.bsky.social

At my new working group on International Relations and Political Economy @Universität Bielefeld, I have a full postdoc position for 3 years (plus x) to offer. Do apply and ask if you have any questions: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/459... in German here: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/459...

The last 2 weeks saw major cloud outages from #AmazonWebServices and #MicrosoftAzure affecting thousands of websites. As @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and I argue in @tribunemagazine.bsky.social this event is a wakeup call about the security risks of tech dependency. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/why-...

What can we learn from @awscloud.bsky.social and @microsoft.com recent cloud blackouts? The extent of dependency is so deep & widespread that we must develop #digital #sovereignty This is what @paologerbaudo.bsky.social & I explain for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/why-...

🎤 Historical Materialism 2025 Conference IIPP Head of Research Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social will be contributing to the 22nd annual Historical Materialism, running from 6-9 November 2025 at @soasuni.bsky.social , London. 🔗 Learn more here: buff.ly/W8Kl1RJ @histmat.bsky.social

Sequel of "The Billion Dollar Code"? 🍿

🎤 Technology, power and exploitation Today, IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social will be speaking with @lmittendrein.bsky.social about intellectual monopolies and the struggle for digital sovereignty at the latest instalment of @attac.at's discussion series. 🔗 Learn more [DE]: buff.ly/vhKuu4M

"By preaching that technology shaped by capital is the ultimate horizon, Aghion implicitly accepts that nature, labour and society are second-order variables, subordinated to a fetishized technical devenir". @nobelprize.bsky.social @newleftreview.bsky.social newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

🎤 How big tech companies profit from sustainability. In a recent interview with @intercept.com.br, IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social outlines how #BigTech companies are controlling and guiding the ecological transition. 🔗 Read more here [PT]: buff.ly/gKdjJnz

🎤 How big tech companies profit from sustainability. In a recent interview with @intercept.com.br, IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social outlines how #BigTech companies are controlling and guiding the ecological transition. 🔗 Read more here [PT]: buff.ly/Bj4cNnM

A must read paper on how Big Tech uses start-ups from Spain and Brazil to advance their political interests 👇👇👇

Want to know how Big Tech uses the need for an ecological transition for their own benefits? & How they govern us all? The @intercept.com.br interviewed me about these issues based on my latest paper w @silviaweko.bsky.social Read: www.intercept.com.br/2025/10/03/e...

“There’s no doubt that without decent bus services you get loneliness & social exclusion, so the impact is quite severe.” We estimate that since the pandemic, buses in Shropshire alone have been cut by 60%. Findings from our new project — Who Owns Britain? — on BBC Radio 4 🔈👇

✍️ These datacentres are the equivalent of “American military bases on British soil” IIPP Prof. @ceciliarikap.bsky.social warns of the dangers of “hyperscale” datacentres built across Britain and owned by US tech giants in Aditya Chakrabortty's recent article. 🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/t0Nfn8v

Some ideas for those speaking Italian here: fondazionefeltrinelli.it/pubblico/big...

Great @theguardian.com piece by Aditya Chakrabortty on UK deepening its dependency on the US and its #TechGiants I was featured saying “American military bases on British soil”. Strong, I know, but I find it a pertinent analogy www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

⚡️How the US tech industry is shaping the transition to green energy. IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social 's research into #BigTech’s role in the energy transition was featured in @markpeplow.bsky.social 's article for @nature.com. ✍️ Read the article here: buff.ly/Hq4GRnK

👏👏 @lobbycontrol.bsky.social for today's action calling for Break Up of Big Tech, starting with Google at the EU's Headquarters.

Is it possible to design a world where production is organised according to social, #community #needs and respecting #planetary #boundaries? What are the techno-political basics needed for #democratically building such an alternative? Join us in Geneva at a once in a lifetime workshop 👇👇

We know that #BigTech consumes tons of energy & water. What was missed is that they are also attempting to control ecological transition paths turning govs & societies even more dependent on them This is the main finding of my new paper w @silviaweko.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

You can now watch the recording of HM Paris's plenary session "At the heart of the storm, thinking of capitalism and infrastructures" where I had the pleasure of speaking about digital technologies, corporate and political power. Sandro Mezzadra and I spoke in English: youtu.be/RQnoKUZJATc?...

As @ceciliarikap.bsky.social explains, Big Tech controls much of the AI market behind the scenes, through venture capital investments, deals for access to cloud computing & influencing the overall direction of AI research toward large-scale language models. www.common-wealth.org/publications...

💔It’s time to break up Big Tech’s “broligarchy” - we need European digital sovereignty. Launched at the European Parliament, read the latest policy brief “A progressive roadmap for expanding European digital sovereignty”. 📕https://bit.ly/ProgressiveRoadmapDigitalPB

Today, I will be presenting my new policy brief on #Digital #Sovereignty to S&D MEPs at the #European #Parliament in Brussels Here is a preview of one of my slides to set the scene and the invite to the event feps-europe.eu/event/a-prog...

☁️ South America’s sovereignty is being lost in Big Tech’s cloud IIPP Prof. @ceciliarikap.bsky.social calls for South American governments to stand up to #BigTech firms extracting data, knowledge and natural resources from the region. ✍️ Read her new @opendemocracy.net article here: buff.ly/jsB2Bgm

For years, countries accepted their dependence on US tech companies. That needs to change. This week @ceciliarikap.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss why it’s so important for governments to champion digital sovereignty that puts people first. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/290_...

We need our countries to get serious about abandoning US tech and putting serious resources behind developing more public-oriented alternatives their citizens can use instead. Always great to get @ceciliarikap.bsky.social’s insights on these topics. Don’t miss our chat!

Wenn wir die großen Techkonzerne nicht demokratisieren, werden sie uns unterwerfen, meint die Ökonomin @ceciliarikap.bsky.social im Interview mit @maxinefowe.bsky.social

✍️"Innovation is produced jointly, but only the intellectual monopolies benefit from it." IIPP Prof @ceciliarikap.bsky.social spoke with @surplusmagazin.bsky.social about the dangers of cloud & #AI services remaining under the control of a select few #BigTech companies. 🔗 Read more: buff.ly/pyUX75h

For German speakers, I strongly recommend the new number of @surplusmagazin.bsky.social It includes an interview where I answer a bit of everything, incl why I don't speak of techno-feudalism More importantly, a lot of extremely interesting articles from a #critical #economics perspective

☁️ South America’s sovereignty is being lost in Big Tech’s cloud IIPP Prof. @ceciliarikap.bsky.social calls for South American governments to stand up to #BigTech firms extracting data, knowledge and natural resources from the region. ✍️ Read her new @opendemocracy.net article here: buff.ly/IS0QC51