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Data Spaces and the Role of the State: Building Sustainable Data Ecosystems

Over the past few years, substantial private and public investments have gone into data spaces, data trustee models, and digital infrastructure. From a technological perspective, we have made significant progress. Standards, connectors, digital identities, wallets, and governance models are now sufficiently mature to support the development of productive data ecosystems. Read More
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz

SEMIC 2025: European Digital Markets at a Crossroads

SEMIC 2025 was the conference’s largest edition thus far. Over 500 participants came together in Copenhagen, while over 3.500 utilised live streams to follow the conference’s goings-on from 65 different countries. More than 100 speakers, myself included, provided their insights surrounding this year’s theme: “Interoperability for Impact” Digesting… Read More
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz

From Compliance to Impact: The Participatory Policy Lab Session on “Community and governance of public sector geospatial data within the Green Deal Data Space”

The night before the workshop, I joked that we would have to save INSPIRE the next day. When the time came, I joined a group of 20 highly distinguished individuals. They represented public authorities and data providers, the European Commission and its services, as well… Read More
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz

Guessing Better: Embracing uncertainty in (forest) decisions

Forests are messy, models are wrong. Numerical models are amazing. They are clean, logical, and reassuringly mathematical. But as George Box reminds us, “all Models are wrong, but some are useful”. This is especially true for dynamic, ecological systems such as forests. Forest development is difficult to predict. When… Read More
Flaminia Catalli
Flaminia Catalli