News and Research articles on Centralisation

Digital organising

Stephan Bohn, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
Ali Aslan Gümüsay, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Georg von Richthofen, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
Georg Reischauer, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
PUBLISHED ON: 16 Nov 2023 DOI: 10.14763/2023.4.1726

Digital organising refers to the collective purposeful alignment and distributed action fostered through digital technologies. The apparently opposing nature of digital organising draws attention to the need to unravel the concept theoretically.

Flawed cloud architectures and the rise of decentral alternatives

Primavera De Filippi, Research and Studies Center of Administrative Science (CERSA/CNRS), Université Paris II (Panthéon-Assas)
PUBLISHED ON: 1 Nov 2013 DOI: 10.14763/2013.4.212

Currently dominant cloud services raise challenges in terms of security, privacy and user autonomy. Decentralisation, advocated by civil society, may overcome some of the drawbacks.