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Digital Sovereignty: Deciding how to share

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There is no shortage of reports highlighting Germany’s and Europe’s serious technological dependencies: social networks, cloud services, artificial intelligence – they are lagging in many areas and in danger of being left behind altogether. The lack of digital sovereignty did not arise suddenly, but in times of intensifying geopolitical conflicts, it now appears threatening. Europe is missing economic opportunities and has no influence on the design of the technologies. The technological dependencies also affect data sharing: citizens and companies in Europe are exposed to the risk of critical data being leaked. But what exactly are these dependencies and how do they affect everyday data sharing? What are the prospects for developing greater digital sovereignty?

ShareCast Epsiode 8 – Digital Sovereignty: Deciding how to share. 25 November 2025
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Guest

Dr Martin Kraushaar is a lawyer and chief executive of the Architekten- und Stadtplanerkammer Hesse.

Further information

Rat für Informationsinfrastrukturen (2022): Ramin Yahyapour: IT-Riesen und Softwaremonopole: Das Ringen der Hochschulen um digitale Souveränität. Digitalgespräch Folge 55 vom 3. September 2024. https://zevedi.de/digitalgespraech-055-ramin-yahyapour/ (24.11.2025).

Architekturkooperative auf gutem Weg. In: DABregional 10/2024, S. 6. https://www.akh.de/deutsches-architektenblatt (24.11.2025).

Petra Gehring: Datensouveränität versus Digitale Souveränität: Wegweiser aus dem konzeptionellen Durcheinander. In: Steffen Augsberg & Petra Gehring (Hg.): Datensouveränität: Positionen zur Debatte. Frankfurt am Main, New York (Campus) 2022, S. 19-44. https://www.campus.de/e-books/wissenschaft/datensouveraenitaet-17434.html (24.11.2025).

Alexander Roßnagel: Anspruch und Wirklichkeit: Wie steht es um den Datenschutz? Digitalgespräch Folge 9 vom 5. Oktober 2021. https://zevedi.de/digitalgespraech-009-alexander-rossnagel/ (24.11.2025).

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Episode 8: Digital Sovereignty: Deciding how to share

Digital sovereignty is one of the key concepts in the debate on digital policy – and is often used to highlight the lack of sovereignty in the digital sphere. This lack did not arise suddenly, but in times of intensifying geopolitical conflicts, these dependencies now appear threatening. What are these dependencies and how do they affect data sharing? And what are the prospects for developing greater digital sovereignty? That’s what episode 8 of ShareCast is all about. | listen now

Episode 7: A dream of open knowledge: data sharing in science

The seventh episode deals with an entire area of modern society: science. We explore the significance of sharing digital data for scientific work and discuss the opportunities and challenges currently being debated in this field. | listen now

Episode 6: Open source software: shared or closed?

Open source software is software under free licences that grants its users four freedoms: to run the software for any purpose, to examine how it works and thus also its source code, to adapt it to their own needs, and to redistribute the software, even in modified versions. This distinguishes it from software that the open source movement refers to as ‘proprietary’ or ‘closed source software,’ which does not offer these ‘fundamental freedoms.’ But how exactly is collaboration and sharing carried out here? What interests determine the open source world, and what conflicts exist? | listen now

Episode 5: Data, Forests, and Timber

The fifth episode of ShareCast focuses on the data generated in the forest and forestry and timber industries. How is this data created? What is it used for? Who has an interest in it? Why is this data not shared? What stands in the way of this? What potential could be realized if this were to succeed? And how could the obstacles to data sharing in forestry and the timber industry be removed? | listen now

Episode 4: Connected Cars: Improvement or Data Hogs?

Having your own car was once a great promise of freedom. Getting into the car and being able to drive wherever we wanted. And keep to yourself: With your partner or family. This image of the car is still there – and yet another one is slowly taking over. Cars are now highly networked, high-performance machines that are constantly filming, recording and measuring. The manufacturer is virtually at the wheel. | listen now

Episode 3: Smart City: Data Overload?

In the third episode of ShareCast, we talk about the interplay between data and urban development. We take a look at what is associated with the term smart city and discuss the potential and challenges that smart city concepts entail. | listen now

Episode 2: Health Data: Just for Me or Donation?

On the one hand, the sharing of data is intended to provide a major boost to innovation in medical research and help improve healthcare. On the other hand, health data is extremely sensitive data, i.e. data with a clear personal reference that can cause great harm in the wrong hands. This difficult balancing act is illustrated very clearly when it comes to so-called rare diseases. | listen now

Episode 1: Data: Nothing (easier) to share?

We shed light on some of the things behind buzzwords such as sharing economy, data silo, platform economy and open science. And we examine the heterogeneous understandings that are associated with sharing: voluntarily giving away data for a specific purpose, sharing data with a counterpart, passing on data in a group or making data openly available to everyone – these are very different things. | listen now

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A dream of open knowledge: data sharing in science

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The seventh episode deals with an entire area of modern society: science. We explore the significance of sharing digital data for scientific work and discuss the opportunities and challenges currently being debated in this field. Data sharing is a fundamental prerequisite for science, because in order to verify the validity of theories, models, and measurements, the relevant data must be made available to the scientific community. The digital transformation has given rise to various technologies that enable new forms of data generation, processing, and linking, and scientific methods themselves have also evolved. The concept of open science has become prominent in this context. It embodies something of a dream for humanity: the idea of open, freely circulating knowledge that all people can use to improve their livelihoods or satisfy their thirst for knowledge. In order for science to help shape social development and accompany economic change in an innovative way in a digitalized world, openness is needed, but so are sensible regulations and reliable infrastructures.


ShareCast Epsiode 7 – A dream of open knowledge: data sharing in science. 04. November 2025
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Guests

Prof. Torsten Schrade is Academy Professor for Digital Humanities at Mainz University of Applied Sciences and heads the “Digital Academy” research department at the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Stäcker is Director of the University and State Library in Darmstadt.

More information

Rat für Informationsinfrastrukturen (2022): Datenpolitik, Open Science und Dateninfrastrukturen: Aktuelle Entwicklungen im europäischen Raum, Göttingen. https://rfii.de/?p=7743 [07.10.2025].


Rat für Informationsinfrastrukturen (2025): Leistung in Verantwortung. Zur Zukunft der wissenschaftlichen
Informationsinfrastrukturen in Deutschland, Göttingen. https://rfii.de/?p=12040 [07.10.2025].

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Episode 8: Digital Sovereignty: Deciding how to share

Digital sovereignty is one of the key concepts in the debate on digital policy – and is often used to highlight the lack of sovereignty in the digital sphere. This lack did not arise suddenly, but in times of intensifying geopolitical conflicts, these dependencies now appear threatening. What are these dependencies and how do they affect data sharing? And what are the prospects for developing greater digital sovereignty? That’s what episode 8 of ShareCast is all about. | listen now

Episode 7: A dream of open knowledge: data sharing in science

The seventh episode deals with an entire area of modern society: science. We explore the significance of sharing digital data for scientific work and discuss the opportunities and challenges currently being debated in this field. | listen now

Episode 6: Open source software: shared or closed?

Open source software is software under free licences that grants its users four freedoms: to run the software for any purpose, to examine how it works and thus also its source code, to adapt it to their own needs, and to redistribute the software, even in modified versions. This distinguishes it from software that the open source movement refers to as ‘proprietary’ or ‘closed source software,’ which does not offer these ‘fundamental freedoms.’ But how exactly is collaboration and sharing carried out here? What interests determine the open source world, and what conflicts exist? | listen now

Episode 5: Data, Forests, and Timber

The fifth episode of ShareCast focuses on the data generated in the forest and forestry and timber industries. How is this data created? What is it used for? Who has an interest in it? Why is this data not shared? What stands in the way of this? What potential could be realized if this were to succeed? And how could the obstacles to data sharing in forestry and the timber industry be removed? | listen now

Episode 4: Connected Cars: Improvement or Data Hogs?

Having your own car was once a great promise of freedom. Getting into the car and being able to drive wherever we wanted. And keep to yourself: With your partner or family. This image of the car is still there – and yet another one is slowly taking over. Cars are now highly networked, high-performance machines that are constantly filming, recording and measuring. The manufacturer is virtually at the wheel. | listen now

Episode 3: Smart City: Data Overload?

In the third episode of ShareCast, we talk about the interplay between data and urban development. We take a look at what is associated with the term smart city and discuss the potential and challenges that smart city concepts entail. | listen now

Episode 2: Health Data: Just for Me or Donation?

On the one hand, the sharing of data is intended to provide a major boost to innovation in medical research and help improve healthcare. On the other hand, health data is extremely sensitive data, i.e. data with a clear personal reference that can cause great harm in the wrong hands. This difficult balancing act is illustrated very clearly when it comes to so-called rare diseases. | listen now

Episode 1: Data: Nothing (easier) to share?

We shed light on some of the things behind buzzwords such as sharing economy, data silo, platform economy and open science. And we examine the heterogeneous understandings that are associated with sharing: voluntarily giving away data for a specific purpose, sharing data with a counterpart, passing on data in a group or making data openly available to everyone – these are very different things. | listen now

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Open source software: shared or closed?

Podcast-Covergrafik für ShareCast. Links ein stilisiertes Mikrofon, oben ein gelber Kreis mit Kopfhörersymbol, rechts ein grauer Kreis mit einer Hand, die ein digitales Netzwerksymbol trägt, umgeben von Binärcode. Unten steht der Titel: „ShareCast“ und der Episodentitel: „Open Source-Software: geteilt oder geschlossen?“.

The sixth episode of ShareCast is about open source software. This is software under free licences that grants its users four freedoms: to run the software for any purpose, to examine how it works and thus also the source code, to adapt it to their own needs, and to redistribute the software, even in modified versions. This distinguishes it from software that the open source movement refers to as ‘proprietary’ or ‘closed source software,’ which does not offer these ‘fundamental freedoms.’ But how exactly is collaboration and sharing carried out here? What interests determine the open source world and what conflicts exist? We talked to our guests about the structures of this ‘digital counterworld,’ the relationship between the open source movement and big tech companies, and the lines of conflict within this world of ‘free software.’


ShareCast Episode 6 – Open source software: shared or closed? 14 October 2025

Guests

Miriam Seyffarth is head of political communication at the Open Source Business Alliance, the association of the open source industry in Germany.

Stefan Mey is a freelance tech journalist and author. He focuses on surveillance, large digital corporations, and the question of what the internet is doing to us and our society.

Jürgen Geuter, alias tante, is a computer scientist and research director at ART+COM Studios. He is also a freelance author and consultant on topics at the intersection of technology, society, and politics.


More Information:

Geuter, Jürgen (2025): „Open Source und digitale Infrastrukturen sind politisch“. In: Verantwortungsblog. https://zevedi.de/open-source-und-digitale-infrastrukturen-sind-politisch/ [11.09.2025]. https://doi.org/10.60805/66c8-4h10.

Mey, Stefan (2025): „Open Source trägt einen Keim für gerechtere Marktverhältnisse in sich“. In: Verantwortungsblog. https://zevedi.de/open-source-software-und-gerechtere-marktverhaltnisse/ [29.07.2025]. https://doi.org/10.60805/c70n-9240.

Lovink, Geert (2025): „Wir brauchen ein, zwei, viele Tausende Mastodons“. In: Verantwortungsblog. https://zevedi.de/wir-brauchen-ein-zwei-viele-tausende-mastodons/ [09.05.2025]. https://doi.org/10.60805/dmqt-cw72.

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Episode 8: Digital Sovereignty: Deciding how to share

Digital sovereignty is one of the key concepts in the debate on digital policy – and is often used to highlight the lack of sovereignty in the digital sphere. This lack did not arise suddenly, but in times of intensifying geopolitical conflicts, these dependencies now appear threatening. What are these dependencies and how do they affect data sharing? And what are the prospects for developing greater digital sovereignty? That’s what episode 8 of ShareCast is all about. | listen now

Episode 7: A dream of open knowledge: data sharing in science

The seventh episode deals with an entire area of modern society: science. We explore the significance of sharing digital data for scientific work and discuss the opportunities and challenges currently being debated in this field. | listen now

Episode 6: Open source software: shared or closed?

Open source software is software under free licences that grants its users four freedoms: to run the software for any purpose, to examine how it works and thus also its source code, to adapt it to their own needs, and to redistribute the software, even in modified versions. This distinguishes it from software that the open source movement refers to as ‘proprietary’ or ‘closed source software,’ which does not offer these ‘fundamental freedoms.’ But how exactly is collaboration and sharing carried out here? What interests determine the open source world, and what conflicts exist? | listen now

Episode 5: Data, Forests, and Timber

The fifth episode of ShareCast focuses on the data generated in the forest and forestry and timber industries. How is this data created? What is it used for? Who has an interest in it? Why is this data not shared? What stands in the way of this? What potential could be realized if this were to succeed? And how could the obstacles to data sharing in forestry and the timber industry be removed? | listen now

Episode 4: Connected Cars: Improvement or Data Hogs?

Having your own car was once a great promise of freedom. Getting into the car and being able to drive wherever we wanted. And keep to yourself: With your partner or family. This image of the car is still there – and yet another one is slowly taking over. Cars are now highly networked, high-performance machines that are constantly filming, recording and measuring. The manufacturer is virtually at the wheel. | listen now

Episode 3: Smart City: Data Overload?

In the third episode of ShareCast, we talk about the interplay between data and urban development. We take a look at what is associated with the term smart city and discuss the potential and challenges that smart city concepts entail. | listen now

Episode 2: Health Data: Just for Me or Donation?

On the one hand, the sharing of data is intended to provide a major boost to innovation in medical research and help improve healthcare. On the other hand, health data is extremely sensitive data, i.e. data with a clear personal reference that can cause great harm in the wrong hands. This difficult balancing act is illustrated very clearly when it comes to so-called rare diseases. | listen now

Episode 1: Data: Nothing (easier) to share?

We shed light on some of the things behind buzzwords such as sharing economy, data silo, platform economy and open science. And we examine the heterogeneous understandings that are associated with sharing: voluntarily giving away data for a specific purpose, sharing data with a counterpart, passing on data in a group or making data openly available to everyone – these are very different things. | listen now

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Data, Forests, and Timber

Podcast-Covergrafik für ShareCast. Links ein stilisiertes Mikrofon, oben ein gelber Kreis mit Kopfhörersymbol, rechts ein grauer Kreis mit einer Hand, die ein digitales Netzwerksymbol trägt, umgeben von Binärcode. Unten steht der Titel: „ShareCast“ und der Episodentitel: „Daten, Wald und Holz“.

When we go for walks in the forest, we try to leave our digitized everyday lives behind us but work in forestry has long since been digitized. Data is collected by sensor networks, drones, satellites, and, above all, large forestry machines such as harvesters. This data is of great interest for increasing the efficiency of the timber industry and optimizing planning, for example in sawmills, but above all for protecting the forest and adapting it to the intensifying climate change. However, there are numerous obstacles to sharing this data. We talked to our guests about these obstacles and the possibilities for overcoming them. Last but not least, we also discussed the data trustee DTMForst, which aims to alleviate technical and legal uncertainties and give data providers opportunities for control.


ShareCast Episode 5 – Data, Forests, and Timber. 23 September 2025
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Guests

Frank Heinze has been working at the RIF Institute for Research and Transfer since 2005 and has been project coordinator of the “Kompetenzzentrum Wald und Holz 4.0” since 2018.

Thilo Wagner is head of the Forestry Education Center of the Landesbetrieb Wald und Holz of North Rhine-Westphalia.


More Information

Frank Uekötter: Ein Haus auf schwankendem Boden: Überlegungen zur Begriffsgeschichte der Nachhaltigkeit. In: APuZ 31-32/2014, 9-15. Can be found here.

Lennart Schinke et al.: Trustful Data Sharing in the Forest-based Sector – Opportunities and Challenges for a Data Trustee. In: CEUR Workshop Proceedings (2023). Can be found here.

Bayerische Landesanstalt für Wald und Forstwirtschaft: Harvester und Forwarder – was ist das? In: forstcast.net – Waldwissen zum Sehen und Hören. Can be read here.

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Episode 8: Digital Sovereignty: Deciding how to share

Digital sovereignty is one of the key concepts in the debate on digital policy – and is often used to highlight the lack of sovereignty in the digital sphere. This lack did not arise suddenly, but in times of intensifying geopolitical conflicts, these dependencies now appear threatening. What are these dependencies and how do they affect data sharing? And what are the prospects for developing greater digital sovereignty? That’s what episode 8 of ShareCast is all about. | listen now

Episode 7: A dream of open knowledge: data sharing in science

The seventh episode deals with an entire area of modern society: science. We explore the significance of sharing digital data for scientific work and discuss the opportunities and challenges currently being debated in this field. | listen now

Episode 6: Open source software: shared or closed?

Open source software is software under free licences that grants its users four freedoms: to run the software for any purpose, to examine how it works and thus also its source code, to adapt it to their own needs, and to redistribute the software, even in modified versions. This distinguishes it from software that the open source movement refers to as ‘proprietary’ or ‘closed source software,’ which does not offer these ‘fundamental freedoms.’ But how exactly is collaboration and sharing carried out here? What interests determine the open source world, and what conflicts exist? | listen now

Episode 5: Data, Forests, and Timber

The fifth episode of ShareCast focuses on the data generated in the forest and forestry and timber industries. How is this data created? What is it used for? Who has an interest in it? Why is this data not shared? What stands in the way of this? What potential could be realized if this were to succeed? And how could the obstacles to data sharing in forestry and the timber industry be removed? | listen now

Episode 4: Connected Cars: Improvement or Data Hogs?

Having your own car was once a great promise of freedom. Getting into the car and being able to drive wherever we wanted. And keep to yourself: With your partner or family. This image of the car is still there – and yet another one is slowly taking over. Cars are now highly networked, high-performance machines that are constantly filming, recording and measuring. The manufacturer is virtually at the wheel. | listen now

Episode 3: Smart City: Data Overload?

In the third episode of ShareCast, we talk about the interplay between data and urban development. We take a look at what is associated with the term smart city and discuss the potential and challenges that smart city concepts entail. | listen now

Episode 2: Health Data: Just for Me or Donation?

On the one hand, the sharing of data is intended to provide a major boost to innovation in medical research and help improve healthcare. On the other hand, health data is extremely sensitive data, i.e. data with a clear personal reference that can cause great harm in the wrong hands. This difficult balancing act is illustrated very clearly when it comes to so-called rare diseases. | listen now

Episode 1: Data: Nothing (easier) to share?

We shed light on some of the things behind buzzwords such as sharing economy, data silo, platform economy and open science. And we examine the heterogeneous understandings that are associated with sharing: voluntarily giving away data for a specific purpose, sharing data with a counterpart, passing on data in a group or making data openly available to everyone – these are very different things. | listen now

Episode 0: ShareCast – starting July 1, 2025

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Connected Cars: Improvement or Data Hogs?

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Your own car – that used to be a great promise of freedom. Climb into your car and go wherever you like, on your own terms. And do it all in private: with your partner or your family. This image of the car still exists – yet slowly, a new one is taking its place. Cars have now become highly connected, high-performance machines that constantly record, measure, and monitor their surroundings. In a way, the manufacturer is virtually in the driver’s seat, through hundreds of sensors, microphones, cameras, and also devices connected to the car, such as your smartphone and the vehicle’s app. And in the future, cars are expected to become even more independent – for example, capable of driving fully “autonomously.” This shift from mechanically driven to software-driven vehicles requires one thing above all: data. That’s why, in the fourth episode of ShareCast, we discuss the present and future of connected cars, their insatiable appetite for data, and the latest approaches to data management currently being explored in the automotive industry.


ShareCast Episode 4 – Connected Cars: Improvement or Data Hogs? 02 September 2025

Guests

Mysha Rykov, works as an independent researcher, previously with the Mozilla Foundation and Big Tech.
Paul Hannappel, Head of Mobility & Logistics at Bitkom.

Michael Zrenner and Michael Minich, Data Scientist and Project Manager for Connected Car Data at HUK-Coburg.

More information


The Mozilla study “Privacy Not Included” on connected cars can be found here.
The investigative report by Wirtschaftswoche on Catena-X can be read here.

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Episode 8: Digital Sovereignty: Deciding how to share

Digital sovereignty is one of the key concepts in the debate on digital policy – and is often used to highlight the lack of sovereignty in the digital sphere. This lack did not arise suddenly, but in times of intensifying geopolitical conflicts, these dependencies now appear threatening. What are these dependencies and how do they affect data sharing? And what are the prospects for developing greater digital sovereignty? That’s what episode 8 of ShareCast is all about. | listen now

Episode 7: A dream of open knowledge: data sharing in science

The seventh episode deals with an entire area of modern society: science. We explore the significance of sharing digital data for scientific work and discuss the opportunities and challenges currently being debated in this field. | listen now

Episode 6: Open source software: shared or closed?

Open source software is software under free licences that grants its users four freedoms: to run the software for any purpose, to examine how it works and thus also its source code, to adapt it to their own needs, and to redistribute the software, even in modified versions. This distinguishes it from software that the open source movement refers to as ‘proprietary’ or ‘closed source software,’ which does not offer these ‘fundamental freedoms.’ But how exactly is collaboration and sharing carried out here? What interests determine the open source world, and what conflicts exist? | listen now

Episode 5: Data, Forests, and Timber

The fifth episode of ShareCast focuses on the data generated in the forest and forestry and timber industries. How is this data created? What is it used for? Who has an interest in it? Why is this data not shared? What stands in the way of this? What potential could be realized if this were to succeed? And how could the obstacles to data sharing in forestry and the timber industry be removed? | listen now

Episode 4: Connected Cars: Improvement or Data Hogs?

Having your own car was once a great promise of freedom. Getting into the car and being able to drive wherever we wanted. And keep to yourself: With your partner or family. This image of the car is still there – and yet another one is slowly taking over. Cars are now highly networked, high-performance machines that are constantly filming, recording and measuring. The manufacturer is virtually at the wheel. | listen now

Episode 3: Smart City: Data Overload?

In the third episode of ShareCast, we talk about the interplay between data and urban development. We take a look at what is associated with the term smart city and discuss the potential and challenges that smart city concepts entail. | listen now

Episode 2: Health Data: Just for Me or Donation?

On the one hand, the sharing of data is intended to provide a major boost to innovation in medical research and help improve healthcare. On the other hand, health data is extremely sensitive data, i.e. data with a clear personal reference that can cause great harm in the wrong hands. This difficult balancing act is illustrated very clearly when it comes to so-called rare diseases. | listen now

Episode 1: Data: Nothing (easier) to share?

We shed light on some of the things behind buzzwords such as sharing economy, data silo, platform economy and open science. And we examine the heterogeneous understandings that are associated with sharing: voluntarily giving away data for a specific purpose, sharing data with a counterpart, passing on data in a group or making data openly available to everyone – these are very different things. | listen now

Episode 0: ShareCast – starting July 1, 2025

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Smart City: Data Overload?

Episodencover des Sharecast. Folge 3, Smart City: Daten im Überfluss

In the third episode of ShareCast, we talk about the interplay between data and urban development. We take a look at what the term “smart city” means and discuss the potential and challenges that smart city concepts bring with them.


City data is of interest and value to citizens in terms of sovereignty, but also to administrations and in terms of economic aspects. The connection between data and city management therefore holds great potential – including in the areas of ecology, social coexistence, and participation. Projects such as Darmstadt’s data platform, the “Darmstadt im Herzen” app, and “Gieß den Kiez” are examples of how citizens can gain more knowledge about their city or how city data can be used to help make their city smarter. At the same time, however, the city is not a “data lucky bag” from which all stakeholders can derive unlimited benefits. Rather, it is important to search specifically for viable ideas, consider opportunities for participation, and design new offerings carefully, in a user-friendly and secure manner. The collection, storage, and communication of city data also involves a great deal of effort, because processes must be organized, secured, and continuously developed. This requires appropriate security measures and IT skills—many requirements that are not always easy to meet and which we will also adress in this episode.

ShareCast Episode 3 – Smart City: Data Overload? 12 August 2025

Guests

Benjamin Seibel earned his doctorate in Darmstadt and Harvard in the media history of e-government and is head of CityLAB Berlin, a public innovation lab at the interface of administration, science, business, and civil society that makes practical use of the potential of digitalization for public welfare-oriented urban development.

Klaus Michael Ahrend is an honorary professor at Darmstadt Business School and a member of the board of HEAG Holding AG, a company based in Darmstadt that performs key municipal tasks for the South Hesse region.

More information

Digital talk (episode 11) on “Smart urban development – what are municipal companies doing?” with Klaus-Michael Ahrend from HEAG Holding AG, November 2, 2021, available here.

DW Shift: ”Smart City: How do you live in a Smart City? | Future Smart City Projects | Surveillance or Utopia?”, available here.

all ShareCast episodes
Episode 8: Digital Sovereignty: Deciding how to share

Digital sovereignty is one of the key concepts in the debate on digital policy – and is often used to highlight the lack of sovereignty in the digital sphere. This lack did not arise suddenly, but in times of intensifying geopolitical conflicts, these dependencies now appear threatening. What are these dependencies and how do they affect data sharing? And what are the prospects for developing greater digital sovereignty? That’s what episode 8 of ShareCast is all about. | listen now

Episode 7: A dream of open knowledge: data sharing in science

The seventh episode deals with an entire area of modern society: science. We explore the significance of sharing digital data for scientific work and discuss the opportunities and challenges currently being debated in this field. | listen now

Episode 6: Open source software: shared or closed?

Open source software is software under free licences that grants its users four freedoms: to run the software for any purpose, to examine how it works and thus also its source code, to adapt it to their own needs, and to redistribute the software, even in modified versions. This distinguishes it from software that the open source movement refers to as ‘proprietary’ or ‘closed source software,’ which does not offer these ‘fundamental freedoms.’ But how exactly is collaboration and sharing carried out here? What interests determine the open source world, and what conflicts exist? | listen now

Episode 5: Data, Forests, and Timber

The fifth episode of ShareCast focuses on the data generated in the forest and forestry and timber industries. How is this data created? What is it used for? Who has an interest in it? Why is this data not shared? What stands in the way of this? What potential could be realized if this were to succeed? And how could the obstacles to data sharing in forestry and the timber industry be removed? | listen now

Episode 4: Connected Cars: Improvement or Data Hogs?

Having your own car was once a great promise of freedom. Getting into the car and being able to drive wherever we wanted. And keep to yourself: With your partner or family. This image of the car is still there – and yet another one is slowly taking over. Cars are now highly networked, high-performance machines that are constantly filming, recording and measuring. The manufacturer is virtually at the wheel. | listen now

Episode 3: Smart City: Data Overload?

In the third episode of ShareCast, we talk about the interplay between data and urban development. We take a look at what is associated with the term smart city and discuss the potential and challenges that smart city concepts entail. | listen now

Episode 2: Health Data: Just for Me or Donation?

On the one hand, the sharing of data is intended to provide a major boost to innovation in medical research and help improve healthcare. On the other hand, health data is extremely sensitive data, i.e. data with a clear personal reference that can cause great harm in the wrong hands. This difficult balancing act is illustrated very clearly when it comes to so-called rare diseases. | listen now

Episode 1: Data: Nothing (easier) to share?

We shed light on some of the things behind buzzwords such as sharing economy, data silo, platform economy and open science. And we examine the heterogeneous understandings that are associated with sharing: voluntarily giving away data for a specific purpose, sharing data with a counterpart, passing on data in a group or making data openly available to everyone – these are very different things. | listen now

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Health Data: Just for Me or Donation?

Cover der ShareCast-Podcastfolge 2 Gesundheitsdaten: Nur für mich oder Spende?

In the second episode, we take a look at a specific domain where data sharing is both necessary and difficult, and where new forms of data sharing are being discussed and tested. We focus on health data and data use in medicine. We talk about the opportunities and challenges associated with this. On the one hand, data sharing is expected to drive major innovations in medical research and contribute to improving healthcare. On the other hand, health data is extremely sensitive, meaning it is clearly linked to individuals and can cause great harm if it falls into the wrong hands. This difficult balancing act is particularly evident when it comes to rare diseases. Various projects are attempting to master this challenge, and we spoke to two of them. The Independent Trust Agency in Medicine at TU Dresden aims to make health data collected at the university hospital accessible for medical research while protecting the legitimate interests of those providing the data. The TrustNShare project has developed a data trustee in the form of an app. The aim is to bring together data providers who want to share their health data – in some cases for a fee – and data users who want to conduct research with this data.

ShareCast Episode 2: Health Data, 22 July 2025

Guests


Prof. Dr. Thomas O. F. Wagner is an internist, pulmonologist and professor at the University Hospital of the Goethe Universität Frankfurt. There he heads the Reference Center for Rare Diseases.


Philipp Heinrich is head and consultant of the Independent Trustee Office in the field of medicine at the Technische Universität Dresden.


Prof. Dr. Cord Spreckelsen is Professor of Medical Informatics at the Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena and was head of the TrustNShare project. He is currently also involved in the AVATAR project.

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Episode 8: Digital Sovereignty: Deciding how to share

Digital sovereignty is one of the key concepts in the debate on digital policy – and is often used to highlight the lack of sovereignty in the digital sphere. This lack did not arise suddenly, but in times of intensifying geopolitical conflicts, these dependencies now appear threatening. What are these dependencies and how do they affect data sharing? And what are the prospects for developing greater digital sovereignty? That’s what episode 8 of ShareCast is all about. | listen now

Episode 7: A dream of open knowledge: data sharing in science

The seventh episode deals with an entire area of modern society: science. We explore the significance of sharing digital data for scientific work and discuss the opportunities and challenges currently being debated in this field. | listen now

Episode 6: Open source software: shared or closed?

Open source software is software under free licences that grants its users four freedoms: to run the software for any purpose, to examine how it works and thus also its source code, to adapt it to their own needs, and to redistribute the software, even in modified versions. This distinguishes it from software that the open source movement refers to as ‘proprietary’ or ‘closed source software,’ which does not offer these ‘fundamental freedoms.’ But how exactly is collaboration and sharing carried out here? What interests determine the open source world, and what conflicts exist? | listen now

Episode 5: Data, Forests, and Timber

The fifth episode of ShareCast focuses on the data generated in the forest and forestry and timber industries. How is this data created? What is it used for? Who has an interest in it? Why is this data not shared? What stands in the way of this? What potential could be realized if this were to succeed? And how could the obstacles to data sharing in forestry and the timber industry be removed? | listen now

Episode 4: Connected Cars: Improvement or Data Hogs?

Having your own car was once a great promise of freedom. Getting into the car and being able to drive wherever we wanted. And keep to yourself: With your partner or family. This image of the car is still there – and yet another one is slowly taking over. Cars are now highly networked, high-performance machines that are constantly filming, recording and measuring. The manufacturer is virtually at the wheel. | listen now

Episode 3: Smart City: Data Overload?

In the third episode of ShareCast, we talk about the interplay between data and urban development. We take a look at what is associated with the term smart city and discuss the potential and challenges that smart city concepts entail. | listen now

Episode 2: Health Data: Just for Me or Donation?

On the one hand, the sharing of data is intended to provide a major boost to innovation in medical research and help improve healthcare. On the other hand, health data is extremely sensitive data, i.e. data with a clear personal reference that can cause great harm in the wrong hands. This difficult balancing act is illustrated very clearly when it comes to so-called rare diseases. | listen now

Episode 1: Data: Nothing (easier) to share?

We shed light on some of the things behind buzzwords such as sharing economy, data silo, platform economy and open science. And we examine the heterogeneous understandings that are associated with sharing: voluntarily giving away data for a specific purpose, sharing data with a counterpart, passing on data in a group or making data openly available to everyone – these are very different things. | listen now

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Data: Nothing (easier) to share?

Cover der ShareCast-Podcastfolge 1 Daten: Nichts (leichter als) teilen?

What is the topic of the “Podcast about Data Sharing” – and what is our goal? We talk about this in the first episode. We shed light on some of what lies behind buzzwords like sharing economy, data silo, platform economy, or open science. And we explore the different understandings associated with sharing: voluntarily giving data for a specific purpose, mutually exchanging data with someone else, passing data along within a group, or making data openly available to everyone – these are not the same. Who benefits from this? Why are many hesitant to share data, especially when it is sensitive or valuable? Data sharing is practiced in different ways. It varies in effort, is often delicate, but is generally desirable – for reasons of efficiency, but also to generate not only financial but also creative, intellectual, and other kinds of added value from digitality. Sharing data in a good way can lead to innovation – and perhaps even open up truly alternative paths for a digital economy.

ShareCast Episode 1: Nothing (easier) to share? 1 July 2025

Guests

Prof. Dr. Thomas Stäcker is Director of the University and State Library Darmstadt.

Maximilian Lindner supports digital projects at the Institute for Innovation and Technology of the VDI/VDE.

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Episode 8: Digital Sovereignty: Deciding how to share

Digital sovereignty is one of the key concepts in the debate on digital policy – and is often used to highlight the lack of sovereignty in the digital sphere. This lack did not arise suddenly, but in times of intensifying geopolitical conflicts, these dependencies now appear threatening. What are these dependencies and how do they affect data sharing? And what are the prospects for developing greater digital sovereignty? That’s what episode 8 of ShareCast is all about. | listen now

Episode 7: A dream of open knowledge: data sharing in science

The seventh episode deals with an entire area of modern society: science. We explore the significance of sharing digital data for scientific work and discuss the opportunities and challenges currently being debated in this field. | listen now

Episode 6: Open source software: shared or closed?

Open source software is software under free licences that grants its users four freedoms: to run the software for any purpose, to examine how it works and thus also its source code, to adapt it to their own needs, and to redistribute the software, even in modified versions. This distinguishes it from software that the open source movement refers to as ‘proprietary’ or ‘closed source software,’ which does not offer these ‘fundamental freedoms.’ But how exactly is collaboration and sharing carried out here? What interests determine the open source world, and what conflicts exist? | listen now

Episode 5: Data, Forests, and Timber

The fifth episode of ShareCast focuses on the data generated in the forest and forestry and timber industries. How is this data created? What is it used for? Who has an interest in it? Why is this data not shared? What stands in the way of this? What potential could be realized if this were to succeed? And how could the obstacles to data sharing in forestry and the timber industry be removed? | listen now

Episode 4: Connected Cars: Improvement or Data Hogs?

Having your own car was once a great promise of freedom. Getting into the car and being able to drive wherever we wanted. And keep to yourself: With your partner or family. This image of the car is still there – and yet another one is slowly taking over. Cars are now highly networked, high-performance machines that are constantly filming, recording and measuring. The manufacturer is virtually at the wheel. | listen now

Episode 3: Smart City: Data Overload?

In the third episode of ShareCast, we talk about the interplay between data and urban development. We take a look at what is associated with the term smart city and discuss the potential and challenges that smart city concepts entail. | listen now

Episode 2: Health Data: Just for Me or Donation?

On the one hand, the sharing of data is intended to provide a major boost to innovation in medical research and help improve healthcare. On the other hand, health data is extremely sensitive data, i.e. data with a clear personal reference that can cause great harm in the wrong hands. This difficult balancing act is illustrated very clearly when it comes to so-called rare diseases. | listen now

Episode 1: Data: Nothing (easier) to share?

We shed light on some of the things behind buzzwords such as sharing economy, data silo, platform economy and open science. And we examine the heterogeneous understandings that are associated with sharing: voluntarily giving away data for a specific purpose, sharing data with a counterpart, passing on data in a group or making data openly available to everyone – these are very different things. | listen now

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How can data sharing be organized responsibly, in a controlled and meaningful way in a digital society? Between data protection and data economy, ShareCast seeks the middle ground—and discusses new ways of sharing data with the help of data trustees and data intermediaries.

In a total of 13 episodes, the podcast brings together perspectives from science and practice. The focus is on concrete projects, legal frameworks, and everyday examples that show what is already possible today.

Funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology, and Space (BMFTR) and the European Union.

Teaser: ShareCast 10 June 2025
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Episode 8: Digital Sovereignty: Deciding how to share

Digital sovereignty is one of the key concepts in the debate on digital policy – and is often used to highlight the lack of sovereignty in the digital sphere. This lack did not arise suddenly, but in times of intensifying geopolitical conflicts, these dependencies now appear threatening. What are these dependencies and how do they affect data sharing? And what are the prospects for developing greater digital sovereignty? That’s what episode 8 of ShareCast is all about. | listen now

Episode 7: A dream of open knowledge: data sharing in science

The seventh episode deals with an entire area of modern society: science. We explore the significance of sharing digital data for scientific work and discuss the opportunities and challenges currently being debated in this field. | listen now

Episode 6: Open source software: shared or closed?

Open source software is software under free licences that grants its users four freedoms: to run the software for any purpose, to examine how it works and thus also its source code, to adapt it to their own needs, and to redistribute the software, even in modified versions. This distinguishes it from software that the open source movement refers to as ‘proprietary’ or ‘closed source software,’ which does not offer these ‘fundamental freedoms.’ But how exactly is collaboration and sharing carried out here? What interests determine the open source world, and what conflicts exist? | listen now

Episode 5: Data, Forests, and Timber

The fifth episode of ShareCast focuses on the data generated in the forest and forestry and timber industries. How is this data created? What is it used for? Who has an interest in it? Why is this data not shared? What stands in the way of this? What potential could be realized if this were to succeed? And how could the obstacles to data sharing in forestry and the timber industry be removed? | listen now

Episode 4: Connected Cars: Improvement or Data Hogs?

Having your own car was once a great promise of freedom. Getting into the car and being able to drive wherever we wanted. And keep to yourself: With your partner or family. This image of the car is still there – and yet another one is slowly taking over. Cars are now highly networked, high-performance machines that are constantly filming, recording and measuring. The manufacturer is virtually at the wheel. | listen now

Episode 3: Smart City: Data Overload?

In the third episode of ShareCast, we talk about the interplay between data and urban development. We take a look at what is associated with the term smart city and discuss the potential and challenges that smart city concepts entail. | listen now

Episode 2: Health Data: Just for Me or Donation?

On the one hand, the sharing of data is intended to provide a major boost to innovation in medical research and help improve healthcare. On the other hand, health data is extremely sensitive data, i.e. data with a clear personal reference that can cause great harm in the wrong hands. This difficult balancing act is illustrated very clearly when it comes to so-called rare diseases. | listen now

Episode 1: Data: Nothing (easier) to share?

We shed light on some of the things behind buzzwords such as sharing economy, data silo, platform economy and open science. And we examine the heterogeneous understandings that are associated with sharing: voluntarily giving away data for a specific purpose, sharing data with a counterpart, passing on data in a group or making data openly available to everyone – these are very different things. | listen now

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