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URBAN DATA CHALLENGE HAMBURG

Why Data?

Data is a critical urban infrastructure – it leads to better public decision-making with regards to infrastructure planning, delivering services, updating and monitoring regulation which serves the interests of the citizens.

Which Data?

The available public data is not sufficient – a collaboration with the private sector is crucial and allows innovative companies and startups to develop new services to tackle the biggest environmental and urban challenges.

Whose Data?

Micromobility is a rich data ecosystem – there need to be practices and blueprints to enable and encourage data sharing between the private and the public sector to make a city like Hamburg greener and more sustainable.

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The New Hanse

In collaboration with the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, The New Hanse explores the potential of data sharing and data democracy: Pilot projects address real world challenges, starting from mobility and its net-zero goals and developing blueprints for other European cities for the governance of data and the digital transition for the public interest.

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THE PARTNERS

THE PEOPLE

THE NEW INSTITUTE team will lead and coordinate The New Hanse on the ground in collaboration with the City of Hamburg and external partners, at city, national and European level.

  • Francesca Bria

    Working Group Chair
    Italian Innovation Fund & The New Institute

  • Ariane Haase

    Project Lead – The New Hanse

  • Sebastian Hofer

    Innovation Manager – The New Hanse

  • Lion Rackow

    Program Coordinator – The New Hanse

  • Oleguer Sagarra

    Dribia Barcelona

  • Wiebke Hallerberg

    Project Coordinator – The New Hanse

DATA COMMONS WORKING GROUP

The Data Commons Working Group is a high-level advisory body to the city of Hamburg regarding the legal, policy, and technical issues raised in the context of the Urban Data Challenge Hamburg.

  • Aline Blankertz

    Lead Overall Consolidation

  • Maximilian von Granfenstein

    Lead Legal Blueprint

  • Boris Otto

    Co-lead Technical Blueprint

  • Fernando Fernández-Monge

    Co-lead Policy Blueprint

  • Rainer Kattel

    Co-Lead policy blueprint

  • Malcolm Bain

    Across Legal (formerly ID Law Partners)

  • Renata Avila

    Open Knowledge Foundation

  • Marco Ciurcina

    NEXA Center for Internet and Society

  • Moritz Hennemann

    University of Passau

  • Paul Keller

  • Raffaele Laudani

    Comune di Bologna

  • Henriette Litta 


    Open Knowledge Foundation Germany

  • Marina Micheli

    European Commission

  • Geoff Mulgan

    UCL London

  • Paul Nemitz

    European Commission

  • Dominik Piétron 


    Humboldt University Berlin

  • Maria Savona 


    Luiss University

  • Linnet Taylor 


    Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society

  • Stefaan Verhulst 


    TheGovLab

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THE NEW INSTITUTE

THE NEW INSTITUTE is an experimental initiative aimed at developing social imaginaries for future societies. We combine academic rigour with innovative practice to inspire, promote and implement societal change. We try to close the gap between insight and action by bringing together academics from different disciplines with politicians, entrepreneurs, journalists, and artists.

We live and collaboratively work together in the Warburg Ensemble, which provides the conditions for rethinking conventional approaches to work. We host up to 35 fellows and build unlikely alliances.

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