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Sharing data: A question of trust?

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In the thirteenth episode, we address the topic of trust. Trust has long been a buzzword in German digital policy, which is hardly surprising. After all, new data intermediaries designed to promote data exchange in business, science, and society will only be successful in the long term if people trust them. So what does trust mean in the context of digitalization and data sharing, and how can new data services create new reasons for trust?

To find answers to these questions, we first look at electronic trust services. These are digital “building blocks” that are designed to bring previously analog processes, such as handwritten signatures, into the digital world and thus set new standards for data sharing. Another focus is on data trustees, which we have dealt with repeatedly in the past. As neutral intermediaries, they are intended to balance the interests of data providers and recipients, thereby enabling trustworthy data exchange. If data providers and recipients find that individual services as well as common standards and norms are trustworthy, this may strengthen confidence in digitalization as a whole. Trust is something you don’t take away from each other.

ShareCast Epsiode 13 – Sharing data: A question of trust? 10 March 2026

Guests


Prof. Dr. Andreas Kaminski is Professor of Philosophy of Science and Technology at TU Darmstadt and has conducted extensive research on the topic of trust.

Lorène Slous is a consultant for digital identities and trust services at Bitkom.

Christian Brecht is an author for the magazine Behörden Spiegel and deals with the digitization of administration.

Further information

Kaminski, Andreas: Hat Vertrauen Gründe oder ist Vertrauen ein Grund? Eine dialektische Tugendtheorie von Vertrauen und Vertrauenswürdigkeit. In: Jens Kertscher und Jan Müller (Hg.): Praxis und ‚zweite Natur‘. Begründungsfiguren normativer Wirklichkeit in der Diskussion. Münster 2017, p. 167–188.

Seidemann, Till: Was heißt Vertrauen im Datentreuhandkontext? (DaTNet-Paper 01). Download: https://datnet.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/DaTNet-Paper-01_Vertrauen_2025-09-18.pdf

all ShareCast episodes
Episode 13: Sharing data: A question of trust?

What does trust mean in the context of digitalization and data sharing, and how can new data services also create new reasons for trust? To find answers to these questions, we examined electronic trust services and data trustees, among other topics. | listen now

Episode 12: The Politics of Sharing Data

Politicians have high hopes for data sharing, ranging from faster administrative processes to scientific and economic innovations. At the same time, European data policy is operating in a geopolitically tense environment in which it must find its footing. In our twelfth podcast episode, we examine the areas of tension in which politics operates with the goal of digital sovereignty and take a look at the role data trustees play in European digital policy. | listen now

Episode 11: Sharing data without giving it away? The transaction-based data trustee

Sharing data can open up a wide range of opportunities, especially for businesses: processes and products can be optimised, costs saved and new business models developed. At the same time, there are risks: data loss, data theft, data leaks. So is there no such thing as secure data sharing? Transaction-based data trusteeship is a very sophisticated approach to responding to these risks: it aims to make it possible to share data without giving up control over it. | listen now

Episode 10: A “Swiss approach”? Data sharing in the Swiss Confederation

In this episode, we discuss the Swiss data ecosystem and ask whether Switzerland’s approach to European regulations is consistent or divergent, and to what extent the country’s manageable size offers a strategic advantage for the efficient development of infrastructure. | listen now

Episode 9: The Big Limitation? On Data Protection

We encounter data protection modules everywhere. Whether we accept or reject cookies when browsing, sign a consent form at the doctor’s office, or agree to the new terms and conditions when updating our smartphones – we are constantly dealing with data protection consents. On the one hand, data protection sets limits on the sharing of data. On the other hand, it can also be seen as a pull factor for data sharing. In our ninth episode of ShareCast, we take a closer look at the limits and potential of the GDPR. | listen now

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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The Politics of Sharing Data

Episodencover: ShareCast-Folge 12. Titel: Datenteilen politisch steuern: Eine Herausforderung

Politicians have high hopes for data sharing, from faster administrative processes to scientific and economic innovations. At the same time, European data policy is navigating a geopolitical landscape that is shaping its direction. In our twelfth podcast episode, we take a closer look at this and ask: What exactly does a European path to digital sovereignty look like? What criteria does it follow?

We address the areas of tension in which politics operates with the goal of digital sovereignty and look at the role data trustees play in European digital policy.

ShareCast Epsiode 12 – The Politics of Sharing Data. 17 February 2026

Guests

Jan Philipp Albrecht is co-chair of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, has worked as an MEP for the Green Party, and served as a minister in Schleswig-Holstein for many years, dealing with data and digitalisation.

Petra Gehring is a professor of philosophy at TU Darmstadt and scientific director of the Centre Responsible Digitality.

Ronja Kemmer has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2014 and deputy chair of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag since 2025.

Michael Kolain is Head of Policy at the Centre for Digital Rights and Democracy in Berlin, a lawyer and policy advisor, and has worked in academia and in the German Bundestag as a parliamentary advisor.

Dr Frank Niggemeier was Germany’s health attaché to the EU in Brussels for many years and was then involved in, among other things, the 2021 expert council report on ‘Digitalisierung für Gesundheit’.

all ShareCast episodes
Episode 13: Sharing data: A question of trust?

What does trust mean in the context of digitalization and data sharing, and how can new data services also create new reasons for trust? To find answers to these questions, we examined electronic trust services and data trustees, among other topics. | listen now

Episode 12: The Politics of Sharing Data

Politicians have high hopes for data sharing, ranging from faster administrative processes to scientific and economic innovations. At the same time, European data policy is operating in a geopolitically tense environment in which it must find its footing. In our twelfth podcast episode, we examine the areas of tension in which politics operates with the goal of digital sovereignty and take a look at the role data trustees play in European digital policy. | listen now

Episode 11: Sharing data without giving it away? The transaction-based data trustee

Sharing data can open up a wide range of opportunities, especially for businesses: processes and products can be optimised, costs saved and new business models developed. At the same time, there are risks: data loss, data theft, data leaks. So is there no such thing as secure data sharing? Transaction-based data trusteeship is a very sophisticated approach to responding to these risks: it aims to make it possible to share data without giving up control over it. | listen now

Episode 10: A “Swiss approach”? Data sharing in the Swiss Confederation

In this episode, we discuss the Swiss data ecosystem and ask whether Switzerland’s approach to European regulations is consistent or divergent, and to what extent the country’s manageable size offers a strategic advantage for the efficient development of infrastructure. | listen now

Episode 9: The Big Limitation? On Data Protection

We encounter data protection modules everywhere. Whether we accept or reject cookies when browsing, sign a consent form at the doctor’s office, or agree to the new terms and conditions when updating our smartphones – we are constantly dealing with data protection consents. On the one hand, data protection sets limits on the sharing of data. On the other hand, it can also be seen as a pull factor for data sharing. In our ninth episode of ShareCast, we take a closer look at the limits and potential of the GDPR. | listen now

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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Sharing data without giving it away? The transaction-based data trustee

Episodencover: Folge 11. Thema: Daten teilen, ohne sie herauszugeben? Die transaktionsbasierte Datentreuhand

Nothing is easier than sharing data – and it is precisely this ease that makes companies in particular reluctant to share data. This is because the potential benefits of data sharing – optimisation of products and processes, cost savings, new data-driven business models – are offset by the risks: data loss, data theft, data leaks. Do you have to accept the risks in order to realise the potential benefits?

Various data trustee models attempt to provide answers to the question of how secure data sharing can be achieved. Episode 11 of ShareCast focuses on a particularly sophisticated data trustee model: the transaction-based approach. This enables data providers to share data without relinquishing control over it. It is not the raw data that is circulated, but the analysis results.

ShareCast Epsiode 11 – Sharing data without giving it away? The transaction-based data trustee. 27 January 2026

Guests

Dr Egbert Schark is a physicist and founding partner of the consulting firm d-fine.

Prof Dr Steffen Augsberg Professor of Public Law at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen.

Further information

Alldridge, Alexander: Teil 4: Transaktionsbasierte Datentreuhand als neuartiges Treuhandmodell. § 13: Technische Konzeption und Umsetzung. In: Johannes Buchheim, Florian Möslein & Sebastian Omlor (Hg.): Datentreuhand und Recht. C.H. BECK: München, 2025. S. 325-340.

Person, Christian: § 3 Gaia-X als informations- und dateninfrastruktureller Rahmen. In: Johannes Buchheim, Florian Möslein & Sebastian Omlor (Hg.): Datentreuhand und Recht. C.H. BECK: München, 2025. S. 35-63.

Buchheim, Johannes & Steffen Augsberg: Von der Verarbeitung personenbezogener Daten zur personenbezogenen Datenverarbeitung – Zugleich eine datenschutzrechtliche Erläuterung und Einordnung des Modells der transaktionsbasierten Datentreuhand. In: JuristenZeitung (JZ) 79/9 (2024), S. 365-375.

Buchheim, Johannes, Steffen Augsberg & Petra Gehring: Transaktionsbasierte Datentreuhand. Nutzungsszenarien, Kennzeichen und spezifische Leistungen eines neuen Modells gemeinsamer Datennutzung. In: JuristenZeitung (JZ) 77/23 (2022), S. 1139-1147.

all ShareCast episodes
Episode 13: Sharing data: A question of trust?

What does trust mean in the context of digitalization and data sharing, and how can new data services also create new reasons for trust? To find answers to these questions, we examined electronic trust services and data trustees, among other topics. | listen now

Episode 12: The Politics of Sharing Data

Politicians have high hopes for data sharing, ranging from faster administrative processes to scientific and economic innovations. At the same time, European data policy is operating in a geopolitically tense environment in which it must find its footing. In our twelfth podcast episode, we examine the areas of tension in which politics operates with the goal of digital sovereignty and take a look at the role data trustees play in European digital policy. | listen now

Episode 11: Sharing data without giving it away? The transaction-based data trustee

Sharing data can open up a wide range of opportunities, especially for businesses: processes and products can be optimised, costs saved and new business models developed. At the same time, there are risks: data loss, data theft, data leaks. So is there no such thing as secure data sharing? Transaction-based data trusteeship is a very sophisticated approach to responding to these risks: it aims to make it possible to share data without giving up control over it. | listen now

Episode 10: A “Swiss approach”? Data sharing in the Swiss Confederation

In this episode, we discuss the Swiss data ecosystem and ask whether Switzerland’s approach to European regulations is consistent or divergent, and to what extent the country’s manageable size offers a strategic advantage for the efficient development of infrastructure. | listen now

Episode 9: The Big Limitation? On Data Protection

We encounter data protection modules everywhere. Whether we accept or reject cookies when browsing, sign a consent form at the doctor’s office, or agree to the new terms and conditions when updating our smartphones – we are constantly dealing with data protection consents. On the one hand, data protection sets limits on the sharing of data. On the other hand, it can also be seen as a pull factor for data sharing. In our ninth episode of ShareCast, we take a closer look at the limits and potential of the GDPR. | listen now

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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A “Swiss approach”? Data sharing in the Swiss Confederation

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Data sharing is no longer a marginal issue, but a central pillar for many forms of innovation. Switzerland is well aware of this and has been systematically pursuing the goal of profitable and trustworthy “multiple use of data” since 2024 with the establishment of a “data ecosystem.” In this episode, we are talking to a Swiss data expert to find out how this is being achieved, whether Switzerland’s approach is consistent with or diverges from European regulations, and present a use case from the agricultural sector. We also discuss whether Switzerland’s size offers a strategic advantage for the efficient development of infrastructure, or whether it makes scaling up in global competition more difficult.

ShareCast Episode 10 – A “Swiss Way”? Data sharing in the Swiss Confederation. January 5, 2026.

Guests

André Golliez is a computer scientist and president of the Swiss Data Alliance.

Noémie Zink is the deputy head of the Digitalization and Data Management Division of the Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture.

all ShareCast episodes
Episode 13: Sharing data: A question of trust?

What does trust mean in the context of digitalization and data sharing, and how can new data services also create new reasons for trust? To find answers to these questions, we examined electronic trust services and data trustees, among other topics. | listen now

Episode 12: The Politics of Sharing Data

Politicians have high hopes for data sharing, ranging from faster administrative processes to scientific and economic innovations. At the same time, European data policy is operating in a geopolitically tense environment in which it must find its footing. In our twelfth podcast episode, we examine the areas of tension in which politics operates with the goal of digital sovereignty and take a look at the role data trustees play in European digital policy. | listen now

Episode 11: Sharing data without giving it away? The transaction-based data trustee

Sharing data can open up a wide range of opportunities, especially for businesses: processes and products can be optimised, costs saved and new business models developed. At the same time, there are risks: data loss, data theft, data leaks. So is there no such thing as secure data sharing? Transaction-based data trusteeship is a very sophisticated approach to responding to these risks: it aims to make it possible to share data without giving up control over it. | listen now

Episode 10: A “Swiss approach”? Data sharing in the Swiss Confederation

In this episode, we discuss the Swiss data ecosystem and ask whether Switzerland’s approach to European regulations is consistent or divergent, and to what extent the country’s manageable size offers a strategic advantage for the efficient development of infrastructure. | listen now

Episode 9: The Big Limitation? On Data Protection

We encounter data protection modules everywhere. Whether we accept or reject cookies when browsing, sign a consent form at the doctor’s office, or agree to the new terms and conditions when updating our smartphones – we are constantly dealing with data protection consents. On the one hand, data protection sets limits on the sharing of data. On the other hand, it can also be seen as a pull factor for data sharing. In our ninth episode of ShareCast, we take a closer look at the limits and potential of the GDPR. | listen now

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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The Big Limitation? On Data Protection

Episodencover: Folge 9. Thema: Die große Bremse? Über Datenschutz

We encounter data protection modules everywhere. Whether we accept or reject cookies when browsing, sign a consent form at the doctor’s office agreeing to the processing of our data, or agree to the new terms and conditions when updating our smartphone—we are always dealing with data protection consents. On the one hand, data protection sets limits on data sharing. On the other hand, it can also be seen as a pull factor for data sharing.

What data protection regulates, for whom, and for what purpose—we want to take a closer look at this in our ninth ShareCast episode and examine both how data protection interferes with data sharing and where it offers potential.

ShareCast Epsiode 9 – The Big Limitation? On Data Protection. 16 December 2025

Guests

Prof Dr Anne Lauber-Rönsberg is Professor of Civil Law at TU Dresden.

Prof Dr Steffen Augsberg is Professor of Public Law at Justus Liebig University Giessen.

Dr Sven Hetmank is an employee and lawyer at TU Dresden.

Prof Dr Thomas Wagner is Head of the Reference Center for Rare Diseases at the University Hospital in Frankfurt.

all ShareCast episodes
Episode 13: Sharing data: A question of trust?

What does trust mean in the context of digitalization and data sharing, and how can new data services also create new reasons for trust? To find answers to these questions, we examined electronic trust services and data trustees, among other topics. | listen now

Episode 12: The Politics of Sharing Data

Politicians have high hopes for data sharing, ranging from faster administrative processes to scientific and economic innovations. At the same time, European data policy is operating in a geopolitically tense environment in which it must find its footing. In our twelfth podcast episode, we examine the areas of tension in which politics operates with the goal of digital sovereignty and take a look at the role data trustees play in European digital policy. | listen now

Episode 11: Sharing data without giving it away? The transaction-based data trustee

Sharing data can open up a wide range of opportunities, especially for businesses: processes and products can be optimised, costs saved and new business models developed. At the same time, there are risks: data loss, data theft, data leaks. So is there no such thing as secure data sharing? Transaction-based data trusteeship is a very sophisticated approach to responding to these risks: it aims to make it possible to share data without giving up control over it. | listen now

Episode 10: A “Swiss approach”? Data sharing in the Swiss Confederation

In this episode, we discuss the Swiss data ecosystem and ask whether Switzerland’s approach to European regulations is consistent or divergent, and to what extent the country’s manageable size offers a strategic advantage for the efficient development of infrastructure. | listen now

Episode 9: The Big Limitation? On Data Protection

We encounter data protection modules everywhere. Whether we accept or reject cookies when browsing, sign a consent form at the doctor’s office, or agree to the new terms and conditions when updating our smartphones – we are constantly dealing with data protection consents. On the one hand, data protection sets limits on the sharing of data. On the other hand, it can also be seen as a pull factor for data sharing. In our ninth episode of ShareCast, we take a closer look at the limits and potential of the GDPR. | listen now

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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Digital Sovereignty: Deciding how to share

Episodencover: Folge 8 zum Thema Digitale Souveränität: Entscheiden, wie man teilt

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

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 13: Sharing data: A question of trust?

What does trust mean in the context of digitalization and data sharing, and how can new data services also create new reasons for trust? To find answers to these questions, we examined electronic trust services and data trustees, among other topics. | listen now

Episode 12: The Politics of Sharing Data

Politicians have high hopes for data sharing, ranging from faster administrative processes to scientific and economic innovations. At the same time, European data policy is operating in a geopolitically tense environment in which it must find its footing. In our twelfth podcast episode, we examine the areas of tension in which politics operates with the goal of digital sovereignty and take a look at the role data trustees play in European digital policy. | listen now

Episode 11: Sharing data without giving it away? The transaction-based data trustee

Sharing data can open up a wide range of opportunities, especially for businesses: processes and products can be optimised, costs saved and new business models developed. At the same time, there are risks: data loss, data theft, data leaks. So is there no such thing as secure data sharing? Transaction-based data trusteeship is a very sophisticated approach to responding to these risks: it aims to make it possible to share data without giving up control over it. | listen now

Episode 10: A “Swiss approach”? Data sharing in the Swiss Confederation

In this episode, we discuss the Swiss data ecosystem and ask whether Switzerland’s approach to European regulations is consistent or divergent, and to what extent the country’s manageable size offers a strategic advantage for the efficient development of infrastructure. | listen now

Episode 9: The Big Limitation? On Data Protection

We encounter data protection modules everywhere. Whether we accept or reject cookies when browsing, sign a consent form at the doctor’s office, or agree to the new terms and conditions when updating our smartphones – we are constantly dealing with data protection consents. On the one hand, data protection sets limits on the sharing of data. On the other hand, it can also be seen as a pull factor for data sharing. In our ninth episode of ShareCast, we take a closer look at the limits and potential of the GDPR. | listen now

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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A dream of open knowledge: data sharing in science

Episodencover

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

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].

all ShareCast episodes
Episode 13: Sharing data: A question of trust?

What does trust mean in the context of digitalization and data sharing, and how can new data services also create new reasons for trust? To find answers to these questions, we examined electronic trust services and data trustees, among other topics. | listen now

Episode 12: The Politics of Sharing Data

Politicians have high hopes for data sharing, ranging from faster administrative processes to scientific and economic innovations. At the same time, European data policy is operating in a geopolitically tense environment in which it must find its footing. In our twelfth podcast episode, we examine the areas of tension in which politics operates with the goal of digital sovereignty and take a look at the role data trustees play in European digital policy. | listen now

Episode 11: Sharing data without giving it away? The transaction-based data trustee

Sharing data can open up a wide range of opportunities, especially for businesses: processes and products can be optimised, costs saved and new business models developed. At the same time, there are risks: data loss, data theft, data leaks. So is there no such thing as secure data sharing? Transaction-based data trusteeship is a very sophisticated approach to responding to these risks: it aims to make it possible to share data without giving up control over it. | listen now

Episode 10: A “Swiss approach”? Data sharing in the Swiss Confederation

In this episode, we discuss the Swiss data ecosystem and ask whether Switzerland’s approach to European regulations is consistent or divergent, and to what extent the country’s manageable size offers a strategic advantage for the efficient development of infrastructure. | listen now

Episode 9: The Big Limitation? On Data Protection

We encounter data protection modules everywhere. Whether we accept or reject cookies when browsing, sign a consent form at the doctor’s office, or agree to the new terms and conditions when updating our smartphones – we are constantly dealing with data protection consents. On the one hand, data protection sets limits on the sharing of data. On the other hand, it can also be seen as a pull factor for data sharing. In our ninth episode of ShareCast, we take a closer look at the limits and potential of the GDPR. | listen now

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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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 13: Sharing data: A question of trust?

What does trust mean in the context of digitalization and data sharing, and how can new data services also create new reasons for trust? To find answers to these questions, we examined electronic trust services and data trustees, among other topics. | listen now

Episode 12: The Politics of Sharing Data

Politicians have high hopes for data sharing, ranging from faster administrative processes to scientific and economic innovations. At the same time, European data policy is operating in a geopolitically tense environment in which it must find its footing. In our twelfth podcast episode, we examine the areas of tension in which politics operates with the goal of digital sovereignty and take a look at the role data trustees play in European digital policy. | listen now

Episode 11: Sharing data without giving it away? The transaction-based data trustee

Sharing data can open up a wide range of opportunities, especially for businesses: processes and products can be optimised, costs saved and new business models developed. At the same time, there are risks: data loss, data theft, data leaks. So is there no such thing as secure data sharing? Transaction-based data trusteeship is a very sophisticated approach to responding to these risks: it aims to make it possible to share data without giving up control over it. | listen now

Episode 10: A “Swiss approach”? Data sharing in the Swiss Confederation

In this episode, we discuss the Swiss data ecosystem and ask whether Switzerland’s approach to European regulations is consistent or divergent, and to what extent the country’s manageable size offers a strategic advantage for the efficient development of infrastructure. | listen now

Episode 9: The Big Limitation? On Data Protection

We encounter data protection modules everywhere. Whether we accept or reject cookies when browsing, sign a consent form at the doctor’s office, or agree to the new terms and conditions when updating our smartphones – we are constantly dealing with data protection consents. On the one hand, data protection sets limits on the sharing of data. On the other hand, it can also be seen as a pull factor for data sharing. In our ninth episode of ShareCast, we take a closer look at the limits and potential of the GDPR. | listen now

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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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

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.

all ShareCast episodes
Episode 13: Sharing data: A question of trust?

What does trust mean in the context of digitalization and data sharing, and how can new data services also create new reasons for trust? To find answers to these questions, we examined electronic trust services and data trustees, among other topics. | listen now

Episode 12: The Politics of Sharing Data

Politicians have high hopes for data sharing, ranging from faster administrative processes to scientific and economic innovations. At the same time, European data policy is operating in a geopolitically tense environment in which it must find its footing. In our twelfth podcast episode, we examine the areas of tension in which politics operates with the goal of digital sovereignty and take a look at the role data trustees play in European digital policy. | listen now

Episode 11: Sharing data without giving it away? The transaction-based data trustee

Sharing data can open up a wide range of opportunities, especially for businesses: processes and products can be optimised, costs saved and new business models developed. At the same time, there are risks: data loss, data theft, data leaks. So is there no such thing as secure data sharing? Transaction-based data trusteeship is a very sophisticated approach to responding to these risks: it aims to make it possible to share data without giving up control over it. | listen now

Episode 10: A “Swiss approach”? Data sharing in the Swiss Confederation

In this episode, we discuss the Swiss data ecosystem and ask whether Switzerland’s approach to European regulations is consistent or divergent, and to what extent the country’s manageable size offers a strategic advantage for the efficient development of infrastructure. | listen now

Episode 9: The Big Limitation? On Data Protection

We encounter data protection modules everywhere. Whether we accept or reject cookies when browsing, sign a consent form at the doctor’s office, or agree to the new terms and conditions when updating our smartphones – we are constantly dealing with data protection consents. On the one hand, data protection sets limits on the sharing of data. On the other hand, it can also be seen as a pull factor for data sharing. In our ninth episode of ShareCast, we take a closer look at the limits and potential of the GDPR. | listen now

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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