IT for Change's paper on 'Breaking Up Big Tech: Separation of its Data, Cloud and Intelligence Layers' for the Data Governance Network argues that traditional competition frameworks are inadequate to addressing the rapidly building digital power concentration. These need to be combined with perspectives from technology governance that focus on structural separation of technology-functional layers (a la net neutrality, but also more) to form a composite new approach to digital regulation.
The paper presents a 'regulatory ideal-type' for structural separation of four key functional layers of digital value chains; data layer, cloud layer, intelligence layer and consumer-facing intelligent services layers.
The full paper is available for download here.
