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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.
CDWAI & Tech

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Eleanor Shearer

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US
Report
2026-08-26
26.08.2026

US Big Tech and the US Government: Frenemy Relations Among the Coalition That Governs Western Capitalism

The close, conflictual relationship between US Big Tech and the federal government is a structural feature of US technology development, investment, and governance.
Cecilia Rikap
US
Briefing
2025-06-26
26.06.2025

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
Briefing
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
UK
Briefing
2024-05-15
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.
Cecilia Rikap
UK
Briefing
2021-09-15
15.09.2021

Digital Co-Ops and the Democratic Economy

Josh Gabert-Doyon
UK
Interview
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
Interactive
2020-12-02
02.12.2020

Big Tech's Monopoly Power

Common Wealth
UK
Report
2020-12-02
02.12.2020

A Common Platform: Reimagining Data and Platforms

Thomas M. Hanna
Mathew Lawrence
Nils Peters
UK
Interview
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
Report
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
Mathew Lawrence
UK
Interactive
2020-05-20
20.05.2020

Mapping Digital Infrastructure

Covid-19 has exposed a deep digital divide.
Josh Gabert-Doyon
Mathew Lawrence
Julian Siravo
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
Briefing
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
Report
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
Report
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
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CDW
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.
CDW
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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