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After the Cloud Giants: Building for Public Digital InfrastructureThe foundation course. It explains why depending on a few cloud providers creates lock-in, rent extraction and surveillance risk, then explores the business models that…
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Capstone: Venture or Advisory Plan for Public Digital Infrastructure
Each participant presents a venture plan, or an advisory plan for the startups they support, to a mock panel of public funders and procurement officers. The plan covers the problem, open-standards…
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Lesson 8: Mission, Governance and Democratic Planning
How ventures keep their values as they grow: ownership models such as cooperatives, steward-ownership and benefit corporations, open standards as a commitment, public-interest governance, and how private firms…
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Lesson 7: Public Clouds, Data Commons and Research Institutions
Rikap’s proposals in detail: public decoupling from the cloud giants, a publicly governed international cloud, a WHO-stewarded health data commons, and new non-profit research institutions. Participants…
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Lesson 6: Networks as Weapons: Geopolitics and Digital Sovereignty
Why concentrated digital infrastructure becomes a tool of state and corporate coercion, and what that means for ventures serving public sectors or crossing borders. Also covers why competition law, regulation…
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Lesson 5: Lock-in and How to Escape It
The technical and contractual sources of dependence: stickiness, proprietary services, exit fees and missing standards. Then the escape routes: multi-cloud, hybrid set-ups, cloud-agnostic design,…
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Lesson 4: The Cloud as Landlord: Rents, Marketplaces and Hegemony
How the public cloud works as a business: infrastructure rents, intellectual rents, marketplaces, and the belief that migrating to the cloud is the only modern option. Participants reconsider the real cost…
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Lesson 3: Capture by Design: Credits, Venture Capital and Open Source
How dominant firms bring start-ups, universities and open-source communities into their orbit: corporate venture capital, cloud credits, compute vouchers and selective open-sourcing. The most directly…
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Lesson 2: Intellectual Monopolies: How Knowledge Becomes Power
What makes a firm an intellectual monopoly: concentrating intangible assets such as data, code, brands and know-how, plus holding chokepoint or panopticon positions in networks. Participants learn to read a…
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