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What Meta’s plan to build the world’s longest undersea cable means for digital infrastructure and geopolitics
Meta recently announced project Waterworth, the company’s plan to build the world’s longest submarine cable system. In this blog post, OII’s Professor Vili Lehdonvirta and DPhil candidate Anniki Mikelsaar ask what geopolitical and economic significance this massive new infrastructure project may have. Key findings How big tech is rewiring the world When data moves between…
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2024 Helsinki seminar on the Geoeconomics and Politics of Digital Infrastructures and Cloud
Today’s societies are highly reliant on digital services, but the infrastructures behind these services are undergoing a silent revolution. Data storage and computation are moving from users’ own devices and on-premises servers into hyperscale data centres operated by multinational cloud computing providers. This “shift to cloud” is a prime example concentration and servitization taking place…
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Digital Economic Security Seminar winter 2025 programme
The seminar runs via Zoom on Tuesdays 12pm-1pm UK time during Oxford term time. Participation is open to researchers and students from any university or research institution. Please send your name and affiliation to philipp.riederle@oii.ox.ac.uk if you would like to join. About the Oxford-Aalto Digital Economic Security Seminar Today’s economies are critically dependent on transnational…
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Digital Economic Security Seminar autumn 2024 programme
The seminar runs via Zoom on Tuesdays 12pm-1pm UK time during Oxford term time. Participation is open to researchers and students from any university or research institution. Please send your name and affiliation to philipp.riederle@oii.ox.ac.uk if you would like to join. About the Oxford-Aalto Digital Economic Security Seminar Today’s economies are critically dependent on transnational…
Digital Economic Security Lab
Professor Vili Lehdonvirta
Aalto University and University of Oxford