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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

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