Cecilia Rikap

🧭 A Progressive Roadmap for Expanding European Digital Sovereignty

IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social's recent policy brief with @feps-europe.eu outlines an ecosystemic and progressive roadmap for strengthening Europe’s digital sovereignty.

✍️ Read it here: buff.ly/scJ9buh

⚡️ How the US tech industry is shaping the transition to green energy.

IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social 's research into #BigTech’s role in the energy transition was featured in @markpeplow.bsky.social 's article for @nature.com.

✍️ Read the article here: buff.ly/BzH9SHU

🆕 Power, Knowledge & Technology in a Finite World

IIPP Prof. @ceciliarikap.bsky.social recently contributed to an article exploring how intellectual monopolisation is detrimental not only to the future but also to the present of our societies.

🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/5Wvy8OB

public data cultures in Paris, 2nd December 2025 Looking forward to visiting Sciences Po, Paris on 2nd December to speak about Public Data Cultures. This is part of a panel on “openness to achieve digital justice: experiments, promises, and flaws” w...

look forward to being back in Paris on 2nd dec to speak about public data cultures 🌱
jonathangray.org/2025/11/24/p...
at @sciencespo.bsky.social with Séverine Dusollier, Yochai Benkler, @ceciliarikap.bsky.social, Léo Pascault, Balazs Bodo and @arisimarta.bsky.social

Zitat von Dr. Cecilia Rikap, außerordentliche Professorin für Wirtschaftswissenschaften und Forschungsleiterin am Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose des University College London: „Die EU hat das Ausmaß der Kontrolle durch US-Firmen noch nicht erkannt“ aus dem Interview mit aus dem aktuellen BRiefing Digitalisierung & KI.

#BuyEuropean reicht zur Stärkung des Digitalstandorts Europa nicht aus, argumentiert @ceciliarikap.bsky.social. Sie hat untersucht, wie sehr Google, Microsoft, Amazon und Meta inzwischen mit der #KI-Forschungslandschaft verwoben sind. Direkt, aber vor allem indirekt (Test/Abo) 👉 t1p.de/ssacc

YouTube video by Historical Materialism: Critical Marxist Theory Resurgent Reaction and the Rise of New Authoritarianisms

Our third plenary, 'Resurgent Reaction and the Rise of New Authoritarianisms' with Wendy Brown, Cecilia Rikap, Jeffery Webber and Rafeef Ziadah, is now being live streamed! Join, comrades!

Saturday night plenary with @ceciliarikap.bsky.social @rafeefz.bsky.social @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social and Wendy Brown on new authoritarianisms - full house. @histmat.bsky.social

Research Position in the working group “Internat... <div style="text-align: justify;">We are looking for an engaged and socially aware social scientist with a PhD or very close to comple...

At my new working group on International Relations and Political Economy @Universität Bielefeld, I have a full postdoc position for 3 years (plus x) to offer. Do apply and ask if you have any questions: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/459... in German here: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/459...

Why Digital Sovereignty Matters Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud blackouts paralysed public services across the globe this autumn — a warning of what happens when essential infrastructure is left in the hands of private US monopolies.

The last 2 weeks saw major cloud outages from #AmazonWebServices and #MicrosoftAzure affecting thousands of websites. As @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and I argue in @tribunemagazine.bsky.social this event is a wakeup call about the security risks of tech dependency. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/why-...

Why Digital Sovereignty Matters Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud blackouts paralysed public services across the globe this autumn — a warning of what happens when essential infrastructure is left in the hands of private US monopolies.

What can we learn from @awscloud.bsky.social and @microsoft.com recent cloud blackouts?

The extent of dependency is so deep & widespread that we must develop #digital #sovereignty

This is what @paologerbaudo.bsky.social & I explain for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social

tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/why-...

🎤 Historical Materialism 2025 Conference

IIPP Head of Research Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social will be contributing to the 22nd annual Historical Materialism, running from 6-9 November 2025 at @soasuni.bsky.social , London.

🔗 Learn more here: buff.ly/W8Kl1RJ

@histmat.bsky.social

Sequel of "The Billion Dollar Code"? 🍿

🎤 Technology, power and exploitation

Today, IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social will be speaking with @lmittendrein.bsky.social about intellectual monopolies and the struggle for digital sovereignty at the latest instalment of @attac.at's discussion series.

🔗 Learn more [DE]: buff.ly/vhKuu4M

Cédric Durand, Neo-Schumpeterian — Sidecar On Philippe Aghion.

"By preaching that technology shaped by capital is the ultimate horizon, Aghion implicitly accepts that nature, labour and society are second-order variables, subordinated to a fetishized technical devenir". @nobelprize.bsky.social @newleftreview.bsky.social
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

🎤 How big tech companies profit from sustainability.

In a recent interview with @intercept.com.br, IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social outlines how #BigTech companies are controlling and guiding the ecological transition.

🔗 Read more here [PT]: buff.ly/gKdjJnz

🎤 How big tech companies profit from sustainability.

In a recent interview with @intercept.com.br, IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social outlines how #BigTech companies are controlling and guiding the ecological transition.

🔗 Read more here [PT]: buff.ly/Bj4cNnM

A must read paper on how Big Tech uses start-ups from Spain and Brazil to advance their political interests

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Want to know how Big Tech uses the need for an ecological transition for their own benefits? & How they govern us all?

The @intercept.com.br interviewed me about these issues based on my latest paper w @silviaweko.bsky.social

Read: www.intercept.com.br/2025/10/03/e...

“There’s no doubt that without decent bus services you get loneliness & social exclusion, so the impact is quite severe.”

We estimate that since the pandemic, buses in Shropshire alone have been cut by 60%.

Findings from our new project — Who Owns Britain? — on BBC Radio 4 🔈👇

✍️ These datacentres are the equivalent of “American military bases on British soil”

IIPP Prof. @ceciliarikap.bsky.social warns of the dangers of “hyperscale” datacentres built across Britain and owned by US tech giants in Aditya Chakrabortty's recent article.

🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/t0Nfn8v

Some ideas for those speaking Italian here: fondazionefeltrinelli.it/pubblico/big...

Special relationship? There can be no such thing with a snake like Trump | Aditya Chakrabortty Keir Starmer has spent the best part of a year cosying up to the US president. It will be no surprise when he gets bitten, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

Great @theguardian.com piece by Aditya Chakrabortty on UK deepening its dependency on the US and its #TechGiants

I was featured saying “American military bases on British soil”. Strong, I know, but I find it a pertinent analogy

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

⚡️How the US tech industry is shaping the transition to green energy.

IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social 's research into #BigTech’s role in the energy transition was featured in @markpeplow.bsky.social 's article for @nature.com.

✍️ Read the article here: buff.ly/Hq4GRnK

👏👏 @lobbycontrol.bsky.social for today's action calling for Break Up of Big Tech, starting with Google at the EU's Headquarters.

Is it possible to design a world where production is organised according to social, #community #needs and respecting #planetary #boundaries?

What are the techno-political basics needed for #democratically building such an alternative?

Join us in Geneva at a once in a lifetime workshop 👇👇

We know that #BigTech consumes tons of energy & water. What was missed is that they are also attempting to control ecological transition paths turning govs & societies even more dependent on them

This is the main finding of my new paper w @silviaweko.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

You can now watch the recording of HM Paris's plenary session "At the heart of the storm, thinking of capitalism and infrastructures" where I had the pleasure of speaking about digital technologies, corporate and political power.

Sandro Mezzadra and I spoke in English: youtu.be/RQnoKUZJATc?...

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.

As @ceciliarikap.bsky.social explains, Big Tech controls much of the AI market behind the scenes, through venture capital investments, deals for access to cloud computing & influencing the overall direction of AI research toward large-scale language models.

www.common-wealth.org/publications...

💔It’s time to break up Big Tech’s “broligarchy” - we need European digital sovereignty.

Launched at the European Parliament, read the latest policy brief “A progressive roadmap for expanding European digital sovereignty”.
📕https://bit.ly/ProgressiveRoadmapDigitalPB

Today, I will be presenting my new policy brief on #Digital #Sovereignty to S&D MEPs at the #European #Parliament in Brussels

Here is a preview of one of my slides to set the scene and the invite to the event

feps-europe.eu/event/a-prog...