An orientation to the course's core argument: a few corporations control the technologies that most organizations, including governments, now depend o…

What makes a firm an intellectual monopoly: concentrating intangible assets such as data, code, brands and know-how, plus holding chokepoint or panopt…

How dominant firms bring start-ups, universities and open-source communities into their orbit: corporate venture capital, cloud credits, compute vouch…

How the public cloud works as a business: infrastructure rents, intellectual rents, marketplaces, and the belief that migrating to the cloud is the on…

The technical and contractual sources of dependence: stickiness, proprietary services, exit fees and missing standards. Then the escape routes: multi-…

Why concentrated digital infrastructure becomes a tool of state and corporate coercion, and what that means for ventures serving public sectors or cro…

Rikap's proposals in detail: public decoupling from the cloud giants, a publicly governed international cloud, a WHO-stewarded health data commons, an…

How ventures keep their values as they grow: ownership models such as cooperatives, steward-ownership and benefit corporations, open standards as a co…

Each participant presents a venture plan, or an advisory plan for the startups they support, to a mock panel of public funders and procurement officer…

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