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FEPS TalksBecoming less dependent on Big Tech with Cecilia Rikap
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Now that the transatlantic alliance has come under pressure with actions and statements of the Trump administration, it becomes ever more urgent to address the issue of the EU’s reliance on US tech for its essential digital infrastructure. 80% of our technology is provided by foreign actors.
That is why in this episode of FEPS Talks our guest Cecilia Rikap, Head of Research of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP), is interviewed by digital policy analyst Gerard Rinse Oosterwijk on her report - Reclaiming digital sovereig...2025-03-1735 min
Future HistoriesS03E34 - Cecilia Rikap on Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism and Corporate Power in the Age of AICecilia Rikap explains how today’s big tech hegemons build intellectual monopolies and use their power for corporate planning beyond ownership.
This episode was recorded during a live event with Cecilia Rikap, hosted by the Rosa-Luxemburg Foundation Berlin. Many thanks to everybody involved!
For information on the event, see: https://www.rosalux.de/en/event/es_detail/2MGCX
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Late Night Live - Separate stories podcastBrazil takes on Big Tech“Google and Microsoft are like salt. They are on every plate”. Cecilia Rikap is currently advising the Brazilian government on its strategy for digital sovereignty, which aims to equip the country with the tools to reduce its dependence on major tech corporations. Guest: Cecilia Rikap, Professor of Economics, University College London 2025-02-0516 min
Tech Won't Save UsHow Cloud Giants Cement Their Power w/ Cecilia RikapParis Marx is joined by Cecilia Rikap to discuss the ways Amazon, Microsoft, and Google gain power from companies becoming dependent on their cloud services and how generative AI exacerbates that problem.Cecilia Rikap is an Associate Professor in Economics at University College London.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham....2025-01-0243 minTech Won't Save UsPatreon Preview: How Cloud Giants Cement Their Power w/ Cecilia RikapOur Data Vampires series may be over, but Paris interviewed a bunch of experts on data centers and AI whose insights shouldn’t go to waste. We’re releasing those interviews as bonus episodes for Patreon supporters. Here’s a preview of this week’s premium episode with Cecilia Rikap, an Associate Professor in Economics at University College London. For the full interview, support the show on Patreon.Support the show2024-11-1906 min
Tech Won't Save UsData Vampires: Sacrificing for AI (Episode 3)Sam Altman is clear: he’s ready to sacrifice anything for his AI fantasies. But are we? We dig into why generative AI has such extreme energy demands and how major tech companies are trying to rewrite climate accounting rules to cover how much their emissions are rising. AI isn’t just churning out visual slop; it’s also being used to transform how our society works and further reduce people’s power over their lives. It’s a disaster any way you look at it. This is episode 3 of Data Vampires, a special four-part series from Tech Won’t Save Us.2024-10-2130 min
Tech Won't Save UsData Vampires: Going Hyperscale (Episode 1)Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are the dominant players in the cloud market. Around the world, they’re building massive hyperscale data centers that they claim are necessary to power the future of our digital existence. But they also increase their power over other companies and come with massive resource demands communities are getting fed up with. Is their future really the one we want? This is episode 1 of Data Vampires, a special four-part series from Tech Won’t Save Us.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the go...2024-10-0731 min
Pasaron Cosas 🤷♀️🤷ENTREVISTA | Cecilia Rikap, economista, profesora de la Universidad de Londres y especialista en plataformas¿Cómo se aplica la visión económica en el mundo digital? ¿Qué pasa con nuestros datos y cómo las plataformas nos utilizan como mercadería y trabajadores gratuitos a la vez? Cecilia Rikap pasó por los estudios de Radio Con Vos para analizar el panorama actual del capitalismo 3.0.2023-08-3129 min
MacrodoseCapitalism as Usual w/ Cecilia RikapMACRODOSE EXTRA takes you behind the scenes to go in-depth with some of the leading voices from the world of economics. Subscribe today at patreon.com/macrodose to hear the full version of this interview and many more.
Our guest today is Cecilia Rikap, who is lecturer in International Political Economy at City University in London.
Cecilia's research focuses on the political economy of technology, and her last book, Capitalism, Power and Innovation, describes the emergence of what she called “intellectual monopoly capitalism” as giant tech companies come to dominate our economic life.
She s...2023-07-2014 min
Tech and Science Daily | The StandardIs AI really a threat to humanity?Expert responds to big tech’s AI extinction warning. Researchers find 4,000-year-old plague DNA in Britain. North Korea’s failed attempt to launch first spy satellite into space. Why we need to tackle in-flight cabin fumes. In this episode:Cecilia Rikap from City, University of London on artificial intelligence ‘extinction’ warningPontus Skoglund and Pooja Swali from the Francis Crick Institute explain 4,000-year-old plague DNA discoveryChinese Scientist: 'Don't rule out' COVID-19 lab leak theory‘Smart bandages’ could improve outcomes for patients with non-healing woundsWhy fish are relocating to colder watersThe Red panda that escaped from Newquay Zoo2023-05-3107 min
FuturaliaAgenda ambiental, avances científicos, datos y soberaníaPresente y futuro. Cómo afrontar la agenda ambiental desde el presente pensando en el futuro. ¿Cómo comunicar los avances de la ciencia? La importancia de los datos y a quién le pertenecen. ¿En el futuro todo lo va a hacer la tecnología?
Especialistas: Andrea Catenazzi, María Gabriela Merlinsky, Diego Golombek, Fabricio Ballarini, Cecilia Rikap, Nahuel Sosa, Alejandro Grimson, Maite Niborski , La Toni Domínguez, María Esperanza Casullo y María Cristina Cravino.
2022-02-0223 minFuturaliaCiudades del futuro, nuevas economías y futuros posibles¿Cómo serán las ciudades del futuro? La relación de las ciudades de los quince minutos y los trabajos de las nuevas economías. Pensar un futuro post pandemia con más derechos y esperanza. ¿Vamos a dejar de abrazar?
Especialistas: Maite Niborski, María Cristina Cravino, Daniel Schteingart, Cecilia Rikap, María Esperanza Casullo, Alejandro Grimson y La Toni Domínguez.
2022-01-1922 min
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Intelecto GeralInternational Seminar #5 | Capitalism, Power and Innovation, with Cecilia RikapIn this edition, we reproduce the fifth podcast episode from the International Seminar "Automation and Digitization in Contemporary Capitalism”, an initiative organized by GEPD, Digilabour and NETS.
The guest is Cecília Rikap, who is a researcher at the University of Paris, at the University of Technology de Compiegne, in France, and at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Investigations, in Argentina.
In her presentation, Cecilia talks about her book titled "Capitalism, Power and Innovation: Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism Uncovered", released by the publisher Routledge in 2021. The mediation of the event is up to Esther Maj...2021-09-221h 32
Causes or CuresThe Dominant Biomedical Research Agenda and Industry's Massive Influence on ItSend us a textIn this podcast, Dr. Eeks chats with Dr. Cecilia Rikap of Argentina, Dr. Marc-Andre Gagnon of Canada and Dr. Mercedes Garcia Carrillo of Argentia who, along with a few other researchers, conducted a study and wrote a paper titled: "Whose shoulders is health research standing on? Determining the key actors and contents of the prevailing biomedical research agenda."In the podcast, they will discuss what the dominant biomedical research agenda is and why it's so important; what its chief contents are; the players that have the most influence over the dominant research...2021-05-151h 04
Crash Course EconomicsIntellectual Property & Monopoly Capitalism — with Cecilia RikapIn this second Crash Course episode of the series on Big Tech, Techno-feudalism and Democracy, we will zoom in on intellectual property. We have invited political economist Cecilia Rikap to explain where intellectual property comes from, what its role is in fabricating monopoly power, and why it is important to understand the rise of Big tech and Big Pharma. Rodrigo and Sara asked Rikap: Is ‘intellectual monopoly capitalism’ a new accumulation regime? And how does it change the rules of the game? How does intellectual monopoly capitalism fit in the growing geo-political struggle between the US and Chin...2021-05-101h 03
Programa 90 (12/07/15)90 Radical corrupción en la UBACorrupción en la UBA. ¿Es posible? Parece que sí. El periodista Alejandro Bercovich denunció al radicalismo por usar fondos de la Universidad para la campaña de Martín Lousteau. Hecha la denuncia, el periodista y una docente de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas fueron amenazados. Sobre la denuncia, las amenazas, el modelo de universidad radical, y las actividades para movilizar a la comunidad educativa de la UBA, hablamos con Cecilia Rikap, docente amenazada por los vestigios de Franja Morada…
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