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Cecilia Rikap
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Assoc. Prof in Econ & Head of Research at @ucl-iipp.bksy.social

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 7d
✍️ 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

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Cecilia Rikap @ceciliarikap.bsky.social · 11d
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

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Cecilia Rikap @ceciliarikap.bsky.social · 17d
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

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Cédric Durand @cedricdurand.bsky.social · 17d
Economic Planning in the Anthropocene - the videos and slides of the 25-27 sept 2025 Geneva conference are available here. Enjoy !
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@jksteinberger.bsky.social @louisoncf.bsky.social @cornelban.bsky.social @rosiecollington.bsky.social @ceciliarikap.bsky.social
- Economic Planning in the Anthropocene - UNIGE
www.unige.ch

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 21d
💻 #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

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 25d
🧭 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

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 28d
⚡️ 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

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · Nov 25
🆕 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

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · Nov 24
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
public data cultures in Paris, 2nd December 2025
Looking forward to visiting Sciences Po, Paris on 2nd December to speak about Public Data Cultures. This is part of a panel on “openness to achieve digital justice: experiments, promises, and flaws” w...
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Tagesspiegel Background @tspbackground.bsky.social · Nov 10
#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
Zitat von Dr. Cecilia Rikap, außerordentliche Professorin für Wirtschaftswissenschaften und Forschungsleiterin am Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose des University College London: „Die EU hat das Ausmaß der Kontrolle durch US-Firmen noch nicht erkannt“ aus dem Interview mit aus dem aktuellen BRiefing Digitalisierung & KI.

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Maïa Pal @maiapal.bsky.social · Nov 8
Saturday night plenary with @ceciliarikap.bsky.social @rafeefz.bsky.social @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social and Wendy Brown on new authoritarianisms - full house. @histmat.bsky.social

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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · Nov 8
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!
Resurgent Reaction and the Rise of New Authoritarianisms
YouTube video by Historical Materialism: Critical Marxist Theory
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Kai Koddenbrock @kaikodden.bsky.social · Nov 6
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...
Research Position in the working group “Internat...
<div style="text-align: justify;">We are looking for an engaged and socially aware social scientist with a PhD or very close to comple...
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Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo.bsky.social · Nov 4
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-...
Why Digital Sovereignty Matters
Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud blackouts paralysed public services across the globe this autumn — a warning of what happens when essential infrastructure is left in the hands of private US monopolies.
tribunemag.co.uk

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · Nov 3
🎤 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

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · Oct 29
USC sues Google in Texas federal court, alleging that Google Earth, Maps, and Google Street View violate its patents for overlaying 2D images onto 3D models (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · Oct 22
🎤 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

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Cédric Durand @cedricdurand.bsky.social · Oct 17
"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
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Cédric Durand, Neo-Schumpeterian — Sidecar
On Philippe Aghion.
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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · Oct 16
🎤 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

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · Oct 8
🎤 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

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Cecilia Rikap @ceciliarikap.bsky.social · Oct 7
A must read paper on how Big Tech uses start-ups from Spain and Brazil to advance their political interests

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sidneyrothstein.bsky.social Sidney Rothstein @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social · Oct 6
Out now in Competition & Change
@compchange.bsky.social

“Dependent development in digital
capitalism: The politics of startup
policies in the new periphery”

@journals.sagepub.com
#polisky
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first page of "Dependent development in digital capitalism: The politics of startup policies in the new periphery." abstract: As digital technology’s economic importance increases, policymakers pivot to supporting startups – new, small, high-risk firms that produce technological innovation. Tracing the passage of startup policies in Brazil and Spain between 2014 – 2022, this article argues that startup policies do little to reduce peripheral countries’ dependence on the core. In each case, startups advocated for these policies by relying on financial and organizational resources from the giant US-based technology firms known as “Big Tech.” The article makes three contributions to the framework of dependent development. First, it reinforces existing observations that dependence on Big Tech extends beyond the Global South. Second, it revives political analysis of dependency, exploring the political conditions for economic development in the periphery. Lastly, it shows how startups’ political dependence on Big Tech implies important limits on startups’ ability to lead peripheral economies out of dependence on the core.

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Sidney Rothstein @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social · Oct 6
Out now in Competition & Change
@compchange.bsky.social

“Dependent development in digital
capitalism: The politics of startup
policies in the new periphery”

@journals.sagepub.com
#polisky
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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first page of "Dependent development in digital capitalism: The politics of startup policies in the new periphery." abstract: As digital technology’s economic importance increases, policymakers pivot to supporting startups – new, small, high-risk firms that produce technological innovation. Tracing the passage of startup policies in Brazil and Spain between 2014 – 2022, this article argues that startup policies do little to reduce peripheral countries’ dependence on the core. In each case, startups advocated for these policies by relying on financial and organizational resources from the giant US-based technology firms known as “Big Tech.” The article makes three contributions to the framework of dependent development. First, it reinforces existing observations that dependence on Big Tech extends beyond the Global South. Second, it revives political analysis of dependency, exploring the political conditions for economic development in the periphery. Lastly, it shows how startups’ political dependence on Big Tech implies important limits on startups’ ability to lead peripheral economies out of dependence on the core.

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Cecilia Rikap @ceciliarikap.bsky.social · Oct 3
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...
www.intercept.com.br

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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · Sep 30
“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 🔈👇

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · Sep 28
✍️ 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

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Cecilia Rikap @ceciliarikap.bsky.social · Sep 27
Some ideas for those speaking Italian here: fondazionefeltrinelli.it/pubblico/big...

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Cecilia Rikap @ceciliarikap.bsky.social · Sep 25
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

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Special relationship? There can be no such thing with a snake like Trump | Aditya Chakrabortty
Keir Starmer has spent the best part of a year cosying up to the US president. It will be no surprise when he gets bitten, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com

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Women Against Fascism @wafeurope.bsky.social · Sep 22
👏👏 @lobbycontrol.bsky.social for today's action calling for Break Up of Big Tech, starting with Google at the EU's Headquarters.

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · Sep 22
⚡️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

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Cecilia Rikap @ceciliarikap.bsky.social · Sep 16
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 👇👇