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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

Using Sensitive Location Data to its Full Potential – a Pragmatic, Full-Spectrum Approach

Note: Should you prefer reading this article as a PDF, it is available for download here. Table of contents From Basic Authentication to Data Spaces The State Today: Standards and Islands Access Control in Modern GIS Systems Authorization: Role-Based Access Control… Read More
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz

SAGE + Forest Data Space + hale»connect = The Combo that Makes the Green Deal Data Space Work

In early May, I travelled to Oslo for the BVDA Data Week and the SAGE General Assembly. While the initial consolidation phase was not without its challenges, the project to build the Green Deal Data Space (GDDS) is now making good progress on several fronts. To… Read More
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz