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773: 767: 218: 125:'s Expert Group on the Online Platform Economy, which supports the Commission in monitoring the evolution of the online platform economy for evidence-based and problem-focused policymaking and the High-Level Group on Digital Transmission and EU Labour markets, which provides analysis and advice to the Commission, and explores policy options. 26:, University of Oxford. He is also a senior research fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, an associate member of the Department of Sociology, Oxford and a former Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, London. Lehdonvirta is an economic 50:
Lehdonvirta is one of the world’s most cited authors on gig work and the platform economy. He was the principal investigator of iLabour, a major research project on online freelancing and the gig economy, funded by the
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Lehdonvirta has advised companies, policy makers, and international organisations in Europe, the United States and Japan. He was a member of the
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Cloud Empires: How Digital Platforms Are Overtaking the State and How We Can Regain Control
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Cloud Empires: How digital platforms are overtaking the state and how we can regain control
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Cloud Empires: How Digital Platforms Are Overtaking the State and How We Can Regain Control
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Stephany, Fabian; Dunn, Michael; Sawyer, Steven; Lehdonvirta, Vili (July 2020).
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Hertog, E., Fukuda, S., Matsukura, R., Nagase, N. & Lehdonvirta, V. (2023)
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Lehdonvirta, V., Kässi, O., Hjorth, I., Barnard, H., and Graham, M. (2019)
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Stephany, Fabian; Kässi, Otto; Rani, Uma; Lehdonvirta, Vili (July 2021).
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Lehdonvirta's earlier research dealt with the history and politics of
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is Professor of Economic Sociology and Digital Social Research at the
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and international reference for the measurement of the global online
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Batmunkh, Altanshagai; Fekete-Farkas, Maria; Lakner, Zoltan (2022).
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of digital infrastructures, such as cloud data centres and
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Lehdonvirta holds a PhD in Economic Sociology from the
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Braesemann, F., Lehdonvirta, V., and Kässi, O. (2020)
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Oxford Internet Institute
sociologist
economic sociology
institutional economics
political science
European Research Council
Otto Kässi
Fabian Stephany
Online Labour Index
economic indicator
gig-economy
Covid-19 pandemic
Bitcoin
blockchain
Edward Castronova
geopolitics
GPUs
European Commission
University of Turku
Helsinki University of Technology
London School of Economics
University of Tokyo
Helsinki Institute for Information Technology
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Cloud Empires: How digital platforms are overtaking the state and how we can regain control.
Virtual Economies: Design and Analysis.
"The future of unpaid work: Estimating the effects of automation on time spent on housework and care work in Japan and the UK"
"Flexibility in the Gig Economy: Managing Time on Three Online Piecework Platforms"
"Taxing Earnings from the Platform Economy: An EU Digital Single Window for Income Data?"
"ICTs and the Urban-Rural Divide: Can Online Labour Platforms Bridge the Gap?"

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