Section: New Results

The economy of intermediation

We have presented in [6] an introductory panorama on the disruption of the intermediation revolution. Our efforts to measure data flows in the world, have been pursued [2] to estimate the concentration of the data industry. It is well known that the main platforms of the Web are concentrated in a few countries, mostly in the USA. Some countries, mostly in Asia, such as China, Russia, Korea or Japan have successfully developed their own Web 2.0 industry, while others, such as European countries, have failed to do so. We have explored in [7] the strategy of China, which has the largest Web industry behind the US and has made a priority of keeping its data at home, with systems in all activity sectors developed in general only one or two years after their main American counterparts. The innovation strategy of China aims in all fields to achieve technological independence, with at most 30$\%$ of foreign IP.

The rise of the economy of data disrupts values, such as privacy, and the way we think about our visibility. In [9] , we investigate the digital world from an ethical perspective and a computer science viewpoint. We assess the structure and the dynamic of digital visibility and propose a model-driven approach to handle visibility in service compositions.