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Divya Siddarth
Divya Siddarth is a doctoral researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. Divya’s research at the OII focuses on AI and democracy. In particular, she is interested in understanding the role of the broader public in co-creating and improving powerful AI models for greater collective benefit. Outside of the OII, Divya is the…
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Zoe Hawkins
Zoe Hawkins is Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. Zoe is a contributor to DIESL Lab’s Political Geography of AI Infrastructure project, and her research explores the geopolitical power of big tech companies.Zoe is currently Head of Policy Design at the Tech Policy Design Centre, Australian National University and a research…
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Boxi Wu
Boxi Wu is a doctoral researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford, where they are examining the politics and environmental impacts of AI infrastructure. Boxi worked as a researcher on the Political Geography of AI Infrastructure project with Professor Vili Lehdonvirta and is currently a research consultant with the OECD’s AI Policy…
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Philipp Riederle
Philipp Riederle is a doctoral researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. His doctoral research examines instruments to distribute the power of digital platform monopolists. He analyses the effects of vertical separation and interoperability in decentralised platform ecosystems. He also works as a researcher in the DIESL Lab’s Reverse Personal Computing project. Philipp…
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Mimmi Piikkilä
Mimmi’s DPhil research focuses on the political economy of public sector artificial intelligence projects. She’s interested in how technology is reshaping economic structures of societies. Publications
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Vili Lehdonvirta
Vili Lehdonvirta is Professor of Technology Policy at the Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, Finland, and Professor of Economic Sociology and Digital Social Research at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK. He has been awarded three European Research Council grants for studies on the political economy of digital technologies. His books Cloud Empires:…
Digital Economic Security Lab
Professor Vili Lehdonvirta
University of Oxford and Aalto University