German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer
Fellow at CAIS from November 2018 to April 2019
mario.martini@cais.nrw
A digital municipality full of sensors offers major opportunities for a modern digital infrastructure (in particular for local public transport and energy systems), but also challenges. One fundamental question is: Who possesses the data sovereignty? This question is relevant to citizens who pass on their data and thus their right of informational self-determination. It is also an issue for private service providers who offer their services to municipalities and attach special importance to exclusive rights of usage and to their business secrets.
In order to leverage the existing potential of municipal data, there is a need not only for data, but also for a stable licensing model that regulates access to data rights. But what should a legally secure framework for the use of community data look like, especially from the economic point of view and with a public-value-approach? The fellowship’s mission is to answer these questions, and to lay the foundations for a citizen-centered commercial data law.
