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Technology and economics

Infodemic, Person with a mask and a mobile phone. Photo: engin akyurt (@enginakyurt). Elcano Blog
Global Spectator Experts Comments

Infodemic and mediademic

Amid the coronavirus crisis there is also an overload of information, something that the Director General of the WHOdescribed as an 'infodemic'.

By Andrés Ortega
31 Mar 2020 //
6 mins Reading time
Big Tech map. Photo: Dunk (CC BY 2.0). Elcano Blog
Technology and economics Experts Comments

Big Tech companies and States: policy or politics?

Big Tech companies are playing an increasingly strategic, decision-level and geopolitical role. But there are still three main questions to be solved.

By Raquel Jorge Ricart
02 Mar 2020 //
6 mins Reading time
Inequality in Spain. Photo: Antonio Marín Segovia (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Technology and economics Experts Comments

Inequality in Spain: let’s focus on the poor

The debate on inequality has intensified in Spain in the aftermath of the economic crisis. There is good reason for that.

By Miguel Otero Iglesias
26 Jul 2019 //
5 mins Reading time
Ericsson’s new Head Quarters in Kista, Stockholm. Photo: Arild (CC BY-SA 2.0). Elcano Blog
Technology and economics Experts Comments

Europe is not behind China and the US in 5G technology

The picture that emerges from this preliminary research is that Ericsson is as advanced, or even more, in 5G technology than Huawei.

By Miguel Otero Iglesias
14 Jun 2019 //
6 mins Reading time
US President Donald J. Trump Speaks at the 2019 National Association of REALTORS®. Photo: Brian Copeland (CC BY 2.0)
Technology and economics Working Papers

From trade diplomacy to economic warfare: the international economic policy of the Trump Administration

This paper is an analysis of the discursive practices of the international economic policy of the Administration of President Donald Trump, writ large. Within this conceptual context it offers an empirical case study of the US-China relationship across the spectrum.

By Richard Higgott
31 May 2019 //
10 mins Reading time
Technology and economics Experts Comments

Is Sri Lanka caught in China’s ‘debt trap’? A view from the ground

The feeling is that Chinese investment is putting Sri Lanka on the map and that suddenly everyone is now interested in coming.

By Miguel Otero Iglesias
21 Nov 2018 //
6 mins Reading time
El Altice Arena de Lisboa justo antes del comienzo de la Web Summit el pasado lunes. Foto: Stephen McCarthy/Web Summit via Sportsfile (CC BY 2.0)
Global Spectator Experts Comments

A Contract to remedy the web

Treinta años después, Tim Berners-Lee propuso en la Web Summit en Lisboa un "contrato para la Web" para garantizar que la Red siga siendo libre y abierta.

By Andrés Ortega
13 Nov 2018 //
5 mins Reading time
Silicon Valley from above. Photo: Patrick Nouhailler (CC BY-SA 2.0). Blog Elcano
Global Spectator Experts Comments

An outbreak of ethics in Silicon Valley

To what can we ascribe this outbreak of ethics in Silicon Valley and elsewhere? The political awakening spread and became viral.

By Andrés Ortega
31 Jul 2018 //
6 mins Reading time
Digital sovereignty. Photo: Eric Fischer (CC BY 2.0). Elcano Blog
Global Spectator Experts Comments

Digital sovereignty

By Andrés Ortega
29 May 2018 //
5 mins Reading time

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