Section: Research Program

Transformations

The research program of the Datasphere team aims at understanding the transformations induced by digital systems on socio-economic organization. It includes the following directions:

• The economy of intermediation and the progressive control of two-sided markets by digital platforms.

• The legal implication of the developments of networks, the growing global interdependencies, the collapse of territories, and the increase of digital flows beyond control.

• The geopolitics of digital systems, data flows and cyber control, the raise of new imbalances, and digital powers (US, China, Russia, etc.)

• The structural consequences of the translation of governance to digital actors, and the weakening of sovereignty over territories.

• The interdependencies of natural ecosystems and socio-economic systems, and the role of digital systems on measuring and controlling the global natural/social system.

• Developing methodologies for assessing the strategic value of data and evaluating its leverage for digital economy.