02.10, 17:00–18:30 (Europe/Berlin), ADA
Sprache: Englisch
With the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the EU has made a first attempt to impose obligations on "gate keeper" platforms and to enable fairer competition. The big change, however, did not happen. This is why we want to discuss: What policies do we need to break market power and thus create the conditions to realize the sustainability potential of digitization?
Not only since the Corona pandemic - but encouraged by it - we can witness the monopolization of more and more digital business fields. Ownership of data and platforms present exorbitant value for large tech companies. Monopolization not only stifles true innovation and prevents choice. Big Tech companies also form new undemocratic power centers with problematic political influence and turn citizens into mere consumers. This is not how the socio-ecological transformation in the digital space can succeed. The non-commercial scene, which builds on DIY, FabCities/Maker Spaces and Free & Open Source communities such as Wikipedia, Linux or OpenStreetMap, remains trapped in the niche. With the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the EU has made a first attempt to impose obligations on "gate keeper" platforms and to enable fairer competition. The big change, however, did not happen. This is why we want to discuss: What policies do we need to break market power and thus create the conditions to realize the sustainability potential of digitization? How can we ensure that public good approaches play a central role in shaping our shared digital future?
Jonas Pentzien fragt im Rahmen seiner Tätigkeit als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung (IÖW) danach, wie sozial-ökologische Alternativen in der Plattformökonomie aufgebaut und skaliert werden können
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Cecilia Rikap (PhD in economics from the Universidad de Buenos Aires) is a permanent Lecturer in International Political Economy (IPE) at City, University of London and programme director of the BSc in IPE at the same university. She is a tenure researcher of the CONICET, Argentina’s national research council, and associate researcher at COSTECH lab, Université de Technologie de Compiègne. She is also an advisor for Argentina's Ministries of Health.
Cecilia’s research focuses on the political economy of science and technology. She studies the rising concentration of intangible assets leading to the emergence of intellectual monopolies, among others from tech and pharma industries, the distribution of intellectual (including data) rents, resulting geopolitical tensions and the effects of knowledge assetization on the knowledge commons and development. She has published two books on these topics: “Capitalism, Power and Innovation: Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism uncovered” (Routledge) and “The Digital Innovation Race: Conceptualizing the Emerging New World Order” (Palgrave), the latter co-authored with B.A.K. Lundvall.