Under the auspices of Francesca Bria, former CTO of the digital showcase city of Barcelona, and in cooperation with the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, the think tank The New Institute is developing a techno-legal framework to enable companies to share their businesses with the city - so that both sides benefit. "Because data is not a resource like oil - if I share it with you, I don't have to give it away, I can continue to use it myself. Collaborative data use holds even more opportunities for both sides," Adriana explains.

The idea is to develop a model in which companies share their data with the city out of their own motivation, including economic interest - not, or not only, because they are forced to do so by law or contract. In this way, more data should be shared overall than has already been shared via Open Data. As part of "The New Hanse," a so-called Urban Data Challenge will be held, in which participating companies will share their data. This will be followed by an idea competition in which citizens and startups will develop ideas for a task set by the Hamburg Mobility Office. The winner gets access to the data and can use it to solve the problem. "The challenge principle is so valuable because we bring together different actors and their perspectives," Adriana explains in the podcast. The idea is to create a framework that takes all perspectives into account from the outset and therefore benefits everyone in the long run.

In the podcast, Adriana explains the problems the project is responding to, why data should be used as a commons, the benefits for the different stakeholders, and what all of Europe can learn from this experiment.

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