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NEW POLICY BRIEF: EUROPE’S USE OF CLOUD COMPUTING FOR BORDER CONTROL
A new policy piece by Stefka Schmid has been published by the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. Summary Big Tech companies provide cloud computing services to various actors worldwide, including Frontex, thereby shaping the governance of the EU’s external borders. Given that border control constitutes a safety-critical environment, the implementation of cloud computing should be
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PARTICIPATION IN AI GOVERNANCE IN MLOPS MEETUP HELSINKI
On April 7th, DIESL PhD student and team member Ana Paula Gonzalez Torres will take part in the MLOps Meetup. Ana Paula will contribute with her expertise in AI governance to the question of how to implement governance to AIOps/MLOps. The event is organised by the Helsinki MLOps Community and will take place at the
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NEW WORKING PAPER: MASTODON USER STUDY ON THE POTENTIALS AND LIMITS OF INTEROPERABILITY
A new paper titled “Does Digital Platform Interoperability Deliver on Its Expectations? Evidence from User Switching on Mastodon” by Philipp Riederle has been published on SocArXiv. Abstract Users of centralised digital platforms (e.g., X, Instagram, TikTok) have little choice but to accept incumbent providers’ conduct or forgo participation. Digital platform interoperability is widely proposed as
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NEW ARTICLE: HOW TECH GIANTS’ BUYOUTS LIMIT MARKET ENTRY OF NEW COMPANIES
A new article titled “Killers on the road of emerging start-ups—implications for market entry and venture capital financing” by Heli Koski, Otto Kässi, Fabian Braesemann has been published by Industrial and Corporate Change. Abstract The competitive effects of acquisitions made by large US-based technology companies have come under increased regulatory scrutiny over recent years because
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THESIS PRIZE AND BLOG POST: HOW COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURES REFLECT CONCENTRATION OF POWER
For his master’s thesis, DIESL team member Kaarlo Liukkonen was awarded a Rajapinta’s 2025 thesis grant. The work, titled “Competing clouds: U.S.-China tech rivalry and the geoeconomic turn”, analyses job advertisement data to measure cloud demand in 32 countries and to what extent there has been a “geoeconomic turn” in cloud computing. The study finds
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NVIDIA GPU supply chain
An interactive NVIDIA GPU map that visualizes its complex global supply chain used for teaching of the course “International Relations and Technology” at Aalto University.
Digital Economic Security Lab
Professor Vili Lehdonvirta
Aalto University and University of Oxford