Anniki is a DPhil Information, Communication, and Social Sciences student and a Shirley Scholar at the OII. Anniki’s research focuses on the governance of digital infrastructures with a particular focus on cable networks.
Digital Infrastructure, Digital Economic Security, Public-Private Partnerships, Geography of Computation.
10 March 2025
Meta recently announced its plan to build the world’s longest submarine cable system. The OII’s Professor Vili Lehdonvirta and DPhil candidate Anniki Mikelsaar ask what geopolitical and economic significance this new project may have.
Professor of Economic Sociology and Digital Social Research
Vili Lehdonvirta is an expert on the politics and economics of digital platforms. His current research focuses on the geopolitics and geoeconomics of digital infrastructures.
Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor of AI & Work
Carl-Benedikt Frey an economist and Associate Professor of AI & Work. He is also a Fellow of Mansfield College and Director of the Future of Work Programme at the Oxford Martin School.
