Vili Lehdonvirta
@ViliLe
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Tech policy professor at @CSAalto and @oiioxford. How economics and geopolitics shape the global geography of cloud and AI. Digital Economic Security Lab DIESL.
Oxford / Helsinki
Joined February 2010
RT @OxUkraineHub: Tickets are now sold out to attend this event in person! We're looking forward to seeing many of you in Oxford in a coup…
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RT @JohannesGeith: Excited to present ongoing research at the Oxford-Aalto Digital Economic Security Seminar later today! Thank you for the…
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RT @JonasTallberg: We are advertising a PhD student position in polisci for research on democracy, autocracy, and international cooperation…
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This still seems about right. We missed RedNote 小红书 as a migration destination for #tiktokrefugees, but are there any numbers on that or is it just a provocative story?
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Another 8-week term of our Digital Economic Security Seminar kicking off on Zoom next week. Cloud, undersea cables, interdependence theory, and security tradeoffs on the programme:
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🚨 Hiring a new postdoc! 🚨 I'm looking for someone with quantitative analysis skills to join me in the ERC-funded project GEOCLOUD: The Geopolitics of Cloud Computing. Hot topic, cool data, excellent career development opportunities! Apply by 9 Jan
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RT @DrSyedMustafaA1: Code might be law (Lessig) but compute is power. Figure taken from Lehdonvirta, V., Wú, B., & Hawkins, Z. (2024). Com…
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RT @AnupamChander: Beijing Effect, a version of the Brussels Effect, which was itself a version of the California Effect...
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Last year's @SASE_Meeting was as blast
@mattiylonen @SASE_Meeting @EYnews @Timo_Seidl Geopolitical dynamics of AI regulation in Europe: @celeste_bny tracks how U.S., Chinese and European firms lobbied the EU AI Act. Lobbying was dominated by U.S. Big Techs—and yet they didn’t seem to get what they wanted. #SASEdigitaleconomy
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Reminder: today is the SASE 2025 conference abstract submission deadline. I'm co-organizing the Digital Economy network (J). Submit! #SASEdigitaleconomy
Tomorrow! Don't forget SASE's 2025 Montreal Conference deadlines are earlier than previous years 📅 For more information: #SASE #SASE2025 #SASEMontreal2025
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RT @SASE_Meeting: Everyone knows Big Tech’s economic clout, but what about its political power? 🤔 Check out this symposium on Cloud Empir…
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Any postdocs in Brazil working on international political economy & cloud? Drop me an email
Great news for European and Brazilian researchers! A new 🇪🇺-🇧🇷 initiative will allow researchers in Brazil to spend 6-12 months with ERC grantees' teams in Europe. 🚀A boost for global scientific collaboration and frontier research. 👉
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RT @ibalilebali: 1/5 [NEWS]: Website is live. Planetary AI is a collaborative project mapping the #value chains of…
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"What if a court decides that the Nvidia datacenter business has to be broken free from the rest of Nvidia... a parallel to Microsoft having to break its Internet Explorer browser free of Windows." Unlikely though given that hyperscalers are now entering the GPU making business?
Does Nvidia have antitrust and monopoly issues in the datacenter? Maybe so. Maybe not. $NVDA
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🚨 Hiring a new postdoc! 🚨 I'm looking for someone with quantitative analysis skills to join me in the ERC-funded project GEOCLOUD: The Geopolitics of Cloud Computing. Hot topic, cool data, excellent career development opportunities! Apply by 9 Jan
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