The platform economy

How can sustainable, equitable, trustworthy, and transparent digital platforms and ecosystems be designed to ensure privacy, equality, social solidarity, cultural vitality, health and wellbeing, and protection of the natural environment?

How might better designed digital platforms help restore public trust in and support civic institutions, political debate, and official information sources?

Projects

• Me and My Big Data
• Developing a minimum digital living standard for households with children
• Defence Data Research Centre UK
• The LATIF project: Leveraging argument technology for impartial fact-checking
• Healthcare communications and information distortion in crisis situations: The case of COVID-19 in Merseyside.