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Dr Otto Kässi is a research fellow at Aalto University and the GEOCLOUD project. His work combines computational approaches with traditional social statistics to study the economic geography of cloud computing. He focuses on how government policies shape these technologies and how, together, they affect countries, firms, and individuals globally. Otto’s research interests include labour…

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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 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 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 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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