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Danny Lammerhirt door Jimena Gauna

Danny LämmerhirtLead Future Internet Lab

Danny Lämmerhirt is the lead of the Future Internet Lab at Waag Futurelab. His research explores democratic experiments with data and digital technologies to address public problems. As lab lead, he lays out the strategy of the research lab, developing methods to publicly design, use, make decisions over, and contest internet technologies, as well as how digital technologies can facilitate dialogue and collaboration around issues of public concern.

Danny wrote his doctoral thesis at the University of Siegen, where he studied how data intermediaries envision to negotiate the interests of data givers and receivers through different media technologies. Danny also worked as research consultant advising organisations like the Open Government Partnership, the United Nations Development Program, the European Commission, and the World Wide Web Foundation.

Labs

Current projects

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Future Internet Lab

EXCENTRIC

EXCENTRIC ontwikkelt en implementeert een Collaborative Data Practice door de uitvoering van vier sectorspecifieke en twee cross-sectorale pilots onder echte werkomstandigheden.
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Future Internet Lab

Algo-Resist

In the Algo-Resist project, Waag organises workshops to help civil servants deal with technology-driven policies that they find problematic. How do you recognise problematic technology policies when you are in the middle of them? And what can you do about policies that are unacceptable?
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Future Internet Lab

Public Nodes

Research into what is needed to enable the transition from big tech platforms to federated or alternative social media based on public values.
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Future Internet Lab

Algo-Lit

Within the AlgoLit project, Waag Futurelab co-creates methods with digital inclusion specialists that professionals and citizens can use to inquire into algorithmic decision-making processes.
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Future Internet Lab

Data standards personal data

Waag Futurelab uses participatory methodology to develop a new standard for data sharing based on public values.
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Future Internet Lab

Balanced Choices

Waag develops a recommender application for libraries and other cultural institutions where values such as privacy and autonomy are central and the data is managed by the end-user themselves.
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Future Internet Lab

Mobifree

Mobifree aims to bring about change in the development and use of mobile software in Europe by citizens, businesses, non-profit organisations and governments.
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Future Internet Lab

CATRIN

Controllable, Accountable, Transparent: the Responsible Internet. Waag is working on a foundation for a new internet to increase trust in the digital world.

Closed projects

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Future Internet Lab

Grip on Own Data

Waag Futurelab investigated how citizens could get 'grip on their own data'. We analysed existing tools that the government made available to give citizens insight into data that the government processed about them.