Economic & Market Infrastructure · 2026-06-24
P2P Financial Systems International Workshop
The paper establishes LVGA and MyLugano as municipal market infrastructure rather than a blockchain novelty. Its unresolved governance problem is that programmability increases the city's power to steer eligibility, spending, visibility, identity, and merchant participation, but the paper does not yet specify the enforceable controls, appeal rights, exclusion metrics, or fiscal accountability needed for legitimate urban infrastructure.
Economic & Market Infrastructure · 2026-04-16
Digital Futures Lab
The report’s core contribution is to show that India’s data-centre buildout is not a neutral scaling exercise but a governance choice that reallocates water, energy, land, subsidy, and political priority toward compute infrastructure without yet building the disclosure, accountability, and redress mechanisms needed to legitimate that shift.
Economic & Market Infrastructure · 2026-03-26
ResearchGate / preprint
The paper’s most important move is to argue that the problem in African AI labor markets is not only underpayment but infrastructural exclusion: workers remain trapped because compute, capital, contracting power, and governance are organized to keep ownership upstream.
Economic & Market Infrastructure · 2026-03-07
Linux Foundation Research
The report frames open models as economic infrastructure for reducing adoption costs and dependence, but it does not specify the governance conditions under which openness becomes public capacity rather than a subsidy for dominant model providers.