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15.05.2024
Dynamics of Corporate Governance Beyond Ownership in AI
Big Tech dominates investment in AI technology; a public strategy for regulation is crucial to challenge uneven distributions of economic power.
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Heads I Win, Tails I Win: Why US Cloud Giants Benefit from DeepSeek and Other Chinese Companies’ AI Strategies
Competition in the global AI market favours the US companies who dominate the cloud.
Cecilia Rikap
UK
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2024-09-11
11.09.2024
Take Back the Future: Democratising Power over AI
Introducing Common Wealth’s programme of work on challenging the concentrated market power of Big Tech.
Eleanor Shearer
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2020-12-02
02.12.2020
Big Tech's Monopoly Power
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2019-11-01
01.11.2019
Digital Public Assets: Rethinking Value, Access and Control of Public Sector Data in the Platform Age
We can reclaim our data by treating it as a public good.
Rosie Collington
UK
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2020-12-02
02.12.2020
A Common Platform: Reimagining Data and Platforms
Thomas M. Hanna
Mathew Lawrence
Nils Peters
UK
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2019-09-20
20.09.2019
The British Digital Cooperative: A New Model Public Sector Institution
What does a socialist plan for digital media really look like?
Dan Hind
UK
Interactive
2020-05-20
20.05.2020
Mapping Digital Infrastructure
Covid-19 has exposed a deep digital divide.
Josh Gabert-Doyon
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Julian Siravo
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2020-10-19
19.10.2020
Interview: Peter Geoghegan on Dark Money, Online Advertising, and Electoral Reform
“We've basically outsourced huge aspects of our democracy to tech companies”
Josh Gabert-Doyon
UK
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2021-02-05
05.02.2021
Interview: David Turner on Streaming, Private Equity, and Musicians’ Unions
The UK parliamentary inquiry into the economics of music streaming offers a new look at the buying and selling of culture.
Josh Gabert-Doyon
UK
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2019-12-09
09.12.2019
Full Fibre Futures: Democratic Ownership and the UK's Digital Infrastructure
Reimagining the internet will require new models of democratic ownership. A Common Wealth report on the future of broadband.
Miranda Hall
Adrienne Buller
Sara Mahmoud
Mathew Lawrence
UK
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2021-09-15
15.09.2021
Digital Co-Ops and the Democratic Economy
Josh Gabert-Doyon
UK
Report
2020-05-18
18.05.2020
Democratic Digital Infrastructure
Building a 21st century digital infrastructure should be a key goal of a bold economic recovery plan after Covid-19.
Thomas M. Hanna
Mathew Lawrence
Adrienne Buller
Miriam Brett
UK
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2020-07-20
20.07.2020
Data and the Future of Work
Among the areas of life affected by the pandemic, work is perhaps the sphere that has been most radically reshaped.
Hettie O'Brien
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2024-04-03
03.04.2024
Interview: Dalia Gebrial
Common Wealth’s Amelia Horgan spoke to Dalia Gebrial about race, the platform economy, and the boundaries of work.
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2023-06-08
08.06.2023
Interview: Aaron Benanav
Common Wealth’s Amelia Horgan spoke to sociologist and economic historian Aaron Benanav about ChatGPT, post-scarcity, and automation.
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