Digital Sovereignty for people and the planet: how to get there?

Mohammad is a Senior Lecturer in African Studies and International Development. At Edinburgh, he teaches on a range of Postgraduate (both online and on campus) and Undergraduate courses.
Course Convenor:

• Work Futures: Edinburgh Futures Institute.
• Contemporary Issues in International Development: School of Social and Political Science.
• Research Design and Practice: School of Social and Political Science.

As a testament to his teaching excellence, he has been awarded the Senior Fellowship of the Higher

Carla Bonina is a globally recognized expert at the intersection of technology, entrepreneurship, and policy, focused on driving impactful change for sustainable development. As a social scientist and author, she leverages her research to empower leaders in the tech industry and public sector to harness digital innovation, platforms, and responsible AI for transformative outcomes.

Her work has informed international organizations, governments, and donors—including the World Bank, the OECD, the ID

Dr Matthew Cole is a Lecturer in Technology, Work and Employment at the University of Sussex, researching wage theft and technological change. He is an Associate Fellow of the Oxford internet Institute working on the Fairwork Project (which examines platform work) and the Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (Digit). Matt is also member of the British Universities Industrial Relations Association and a member of the future of work group as part of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intellig

Paolo Gerbaudo is a Senior Research Fellow in Social Sciences with the Talento Investigador programme of the Autonomous Community of Madrid in the department of Political History, Theories and Geography at the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology of Complutense University in Madrid. His research project explores the transformation of the state and public services in the digital era from a comparative perspective, with a focus on the consequences for the relationship between citizens and 

I am a competition economist with a focus on industrial ecosystems and issues of coordination in production. My work stands at the crossroad of the fields of industrial organisation, information theory and strategy of the firm. I am currently dedicated to the development of new measures of competition by applying techniques from complexity theory and network analysis on issues of antitrust.

Under the supervision of Antonio Andreoni and Mariana Mazzucato, I am completing a PhD at the UCL Institute

Edemilson Paraná is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at LUT University, Finland, where he leads the Research Group on Economy Technology and Society (GETS). He is also a research fellow at CNPq (Brazil’s national research council) and an international fellow at the Rudolf Agricola School for Sustainable Development, University of Groningen.

He has previously taught at the University of Brasília and the Federal University of Ceará in Brazil and held research fellowships

Roser Pujadas is a Lecturer in Digital Innovation at UCL's Department of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Public Policy (STEaPP). Her research expertise is in digital platforms, the digital infrastructures of the digital economy, and the infrastructuralization of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Her most current research addresses the so-called API economy, and the distributed algorithmic infrastructures underlying matchmaking platforms. Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and the embedde

Cecilia Rikap (PhD in economics from the Universidad de Buenos Aires) is associate professor in Economics and Head of Research at IIPP- UCL. Until joining UCL, she was a permanent Senior 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.

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