How can data sharing be organized responsibly, in a controlled and meaningful way in a digital society? Between data protection and data economy, ShareCast seeks the middle ground—and discusses new ways of sharing data with the help of data trustees and data intermediaries.
In a total of 13 episodes, the podcast brings together perspectives from science and practice. The focus is on concrete projects, legal frameworks, and everyday examples that show what is already possible today.
Funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology, and Space (BMFTR) and the European Union.
Teaser: ShareCast 10 June 2025
all ShareCast episodesepisode 6: ShareCast Episode 2 – Health Data: Just for Me or Donation?On the one hand, the sharing of data is intended to provide a major boost to innovation in medical research and help improve healthcare. On the other hand, health data is extremely sensitive data, i.e. data with a clear personal reference that can cause great harm in the wrong hands. This difficult balancing act is illustrated very clearly when it comes to so-called rare diseases. | listen now
episode 5: ShareCast Episode 1 – Data: Nothing (easier) to share?We shed light on some of the things behind buzzwords such as sharing economy, data silo, platform economy and open science. And we examine the heterogeneous understandings that are associated with sharing: voluntarily giving away data for a specific purpose, sharing data with a counterpart, passing on data in a group or making data openly available to everyone – these are very different things. | listen now
episode 4: ShareCast Episode 3 - Smart City: Data Overload?In the third episode of ShareCast, we talk about the interplay between data and urban development. We take a look at what is associated with the term smart city and discuss the potential and challenges that smart city concepts entail. | listen now
episode 3: ShareCast – starting July 1, 2025 | listen now
episode 2: ShareCast Episode 4 - Connected Cars: Improvement or Data Hogs?Having your own car was once a great promise of freedom. Getting into the car and being able to drive wherever we wanted. And keep to yourself: With your partner or family. This image of the car is still there – and yet another one is slowly taking over. Cars are now highly networked, high-performance machines that are constantly filming, recording and measuring. The manufacturer is virtually at the wheel. | listen now
episode 1: ShareCast Episode 5 - Data, Forests, and TimberThe fifth episode of ShareCast focuses on the data generated in the forest and forestry and timber industries. How is this data created? What is it used for? Who has an interest in it? Why is this data not shared? What stands in the way of this? What potential could be realized if this were to succeed? And how could the obstacles to data sharing in forestry and the timber industry be removed? | listen now
episode 0: ShareCast Episode 6 - Open source software: shared or closed?Open source software is software under free licences that grants its users four freedoms: to run the software for any purpose, to examine how it works and thus also its source code, to adapt it to their own needs, and to redistribute the software, even in modified versions. This distinguishes it from software that the open source movement refers to as ‘proprietary’ or ‘closed source software,’ which does not offer these ‘fundamental freedoms.’ But how exactly is collaboration and sharing carried out here? What interests determine the open source world, and what conflicts exist? | listen now