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Do You Need a Data Space?
Security, Usefulness, and Why the Biggest Risk is Not Sharing Data at All

This summer, I was interviewed twice as a data spaces expert. The first interview, conducted by the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, focused on the role of governments when implementing sustainable digital ecosystems around data spaces and data trustees. In this second interview, Dorothee Jahaj from the Geodateninfrastruktur… Read More
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz

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

Datenportal Landesplanung Baden-Württemberg – Understanding Regional Development

A “Landesentwicklungsplan”, or state development plan, is the highest level in the hierarchy of German land-use planning. Since spatial planning and regional development affect our lives in many ways, relevant information on trends and existing regulations needs to be accessible and understandable for every citizen. The state development plan is… Read More
Moritz Bock
John Boudewijn
John Boudewijn
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz

European Spatial Data Infrastructures: A Time of Change

Summary As part of the competitiveness and simplification political priority of the EC, the INSPIRE Directive will be “simplified”, with the biggest change being the removal of all requirements related to interoperability of data and network services from the legal text itself. Metadata and scope remain more or less unchanged. Read More
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz