UK 'invention agency' awards £50m to US tech and VC firms

Another instance where 'red tape' was probably a good idea. 'When Aria was set up, it was controversially exempt from freedom of information laws to be free from "red tape" and for the first years of its operation, it published no details about its grantees.' www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Why are we giving public money to the American tech sector? Where's the support for our own home-grown talent? @zackpolanski.bsky.social @eddavey.libdems.org.uk #DigitalSovereignty

“investigation by Democracy for Sale & the Guardian has found that ARIA is handing out tens of millions of pounds in British public money to private US firms, some of which were set up just days before the awards.” - The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) was dreamed up Dominic Cummings.

The Brexit bunch governing from the private sector, funded by tax payers money “more than an eighth of the agency’s £400m in research and development funding over the past two years has gone to 14 US tech companies and venture capital groups, in some cases, with no clear return for the UK “

Big Brain Cummings. Again. Our money, wasted again. Dominic Cummings’ "moonshot" agency awarded £52m to US tech firms open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Ridiculous that at a time when this government is thinking about austerity, they're allowing millions of taxpayers' money to be given to organisations that are already awash with resources. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/dominic-cu...

UK 'invention agency' grants £50m of public money to US tech and venture capital firms www.theguardian.com/technology/2... + democracyforsale.substack.com/p/dominic-cu... Transparency data aria.org.uk/about-aria/r... (ARIA is exempt from FOI but not EIRs) What was that about tech sovereignty

UK ‘invention agency’ grants £50m of public money to US tech and venture capital firms. Brainchild of Dominic Cummings, Aria is aimed at funding ‘crazy’ scientific projects to benefit the UK. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

UK ‘invention agency’ grants £50m of public money to US tech and venture capital firms ‘When Aria was set up, it was controversially exempt from freedom of information laws, and, for the first years of its operation, it published no details about its grantees’ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

“The ARIA Act requires the organisation to benefit the UK by driving economic growth, supporting scientific innovation or improving quality of life. It’s unclear how funding US-based venture capital and tech firms meets these aims, or aligns with the government’s commitment to regional innovation.”

Christ on a moonshot. The money companies make for doing not expensive stuff (running training programs, for one). Hey, we're Americans, pay us more! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Team Starmer can't pay resident doctors properly or re-fund the court system, but it can find a £50 million bung for Dominic Cummings and some American slopmongers www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

UK 'invention agency' grants £50m of public money to US tech and venture capital firms ->The Guardian | More on "Aria public funds US firms" at BigEarthData.ai | #Tech

Wtf?!? Systematic supporting a global elite who pay no tax, no wonder inequality constantly rises… www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Why on earth did they give public money to US tech and didn’t look for UK tech? This is an insult to British tech and a complete betrayal of the use of OUR money.