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.
